Opioid addiction rates have risen since the late 1990s when reassurances that patients could not become addicted to prescription opioid painkillers turned out to be dangerously false. Today, there are over 100 deaths a day in the US due to opioid overdoses. The national crisis involves prescription drugs as well as illegal opioids like heroin. Opioid misuse and addiction cost us in personal, heartbreaking ways. They also cost the United…
Melissa BeitlerMarch 15, 2021
