The US war on the opioid epidemic is heating up, with 3 recent noteworthy developments.
On July 31, Chris Christie, chair of the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, issued his interim report, calling the recommendation to declare the opioid epidemic a national emergency the most important of all. (Among the other recommendations: mandating physician education, increasing availability of the overdose reversal agent naloxone).1
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