Pain and The Nation’s Opioid Epidemic: An Interview with Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, MS

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW
• January 1st, 2020
• addiction treatment, individualized care, mental health, non-pharmacological interventions, opioid epidemic, pain management, precision medicine, public health policy
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The so-called “opioid epidemic” is a far more complex social phenomenon than it appears to be when politicians and pundits propose solutions to it. They work largely from a simplistic and only partially true narrative that lately concludes that the villains are the drug companies that promoted...