Opioid Crisis Articles & Analysis
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The opioid crisis in the United States is a devastating public health issue, with over 70,000 overdose deaths annually, largely driven by the highly potent synthetic opioid fentanyl. The urgency to address this crisis has spurred the development of innovative therapies to prevent and reverse fentanyl overdoses. In this blog, we ...
It’s no secret that opioid addiction is at an all-time high and represents a major public health threat. The CDC estimates that opioid addiction resulted in a record 72,000 drug overdose deaths in 2017 alone. What strikes me as one of the most tragic parts of this narrative is that so many of these deaths were people who became addicted to opioids after simply seeking relief ...