“Former CDC director Tom Frieden, MD, and Andrew Kolodny, co-director of opioid policy research at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., shared 10 actions the federal government should take to address America’s opioid overdose crisis in a paper published Thursday in JAMA.
“The opioid addiction epidemic has worsened over the course of a generation and will not end overnight,” the experts wrote. “Rapid implementation of the 10 steps outlined here could enable tracking and reduction of both new opioid addiction and fatal overdoses … the healthcare system has a responsibility to support actions … that could prevent addiction and save lives.”
Source: Becker’s Hospital Review – October 13, 2017
