Taking a Holistic Approach to Treating Opioid Addiction

• By: Candace T. Saldarini, MD Lisa Strouss, PharmD ODH, Inc.
• April 16th, 2020
• data sharing, holistic care, medication-assisted treatment, mental health, opioid crisis, prescription monitoring, social determinants of health, substance use disorder
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Opioid overdoses led to more than 33,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2015—an average of 91 per day, according to the Centers for Disease Control. That national death toll is the “equivalent to America enduring another 9/11 attack every two-and-a-half weeks,” says New Jersey governor Chris...