Unintended Consequences: Are We Inadvertently Increasing Heroin Overdose Deaths?

• By: Richard Juman, PsyD TheFix.com
• July 1st, 2015
• addiction treatment, heroin use, opioid addiction, opioid epidemic, opioid prescribing, overdose deaths, prescription drug monitoring, prescription opioids
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Two years ago, The Fix spearheaded an effort to highlight the public health epidemic caused by the overprescribing of opioid pain medications which resulted in the tens of thousands of overdose deaths that were making front page news. The epidemic was iatrogenic- “caused by physicians”- in...