The White House has laid out a plan to address the opioid crisis. But people suffering from opioid addiction aren’t the only ones who need help.
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Your guide to a public health crisis that’s likely to get worse.
While talking about drugs with young people isn’t always comfortable, research has shown that it’s critical for prevention.
Drug addiction isn’t about bad habits, fear of withdrawal or a selfish search for pleasure. It’s about the brain.
HIV, STIs and other dangerous infections are feeding off of the opioid epidemic, creating an even more complicated threat to public health.
If opioids prevent significant suffering, then the solution to the prescription opioid problem cannot simply be to stop using them.
President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national emergency. But we need to do a lot more to prevent this crisis from escalating even further.
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Associate Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine; Weiner Hailey Family Professor, Tufts University
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Director of the Master of Bioethics degree program at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
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Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Concordia University
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Medical Director of Opioid Policy Research, Brandeis University
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Associate Professor, West Virginia University
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Director for Behavioral Health Promotion and Applied Research, University at Albany, State University of New York
