We must face some unpleasant truths about opioids
Over the past year I’ve lost track of how many times the opioid epidemic has, in one incarnation or another (Prince, naloxone, fentanyl, newborns in agonizing withdrawal and so on) found its way onto the front page news. What distinguishes this epidemic is not only its catastrophic toll — hundreds of thousands dead, uncountable millions harmed — but also the fact that, unlike SARS, Ebola or influenza, this epidemic has …
