Research to Address the Real-Life Challenges of Opioid Crisis

• By: Lawrence Tabak, DDS, PhD The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• February 28th, 2024
• combating the opioid crisis, equity, fentanyl, history of opioid crisis, opioid crisis, overdose deaths, racial disparity in health care, telehealth
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While great progress has been made in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, America’s opioid crisis continues to evolve in unexpected ways. The opioid crisis, which worsened during the pandemic and now involves the scourge of fentanyl, claims more than 70,000 lives each year in the United States1....