First, Do No Harm: Marshaling Clinician Leadership to Counter the Opioid Epidemic

by National Academy of Medicine

There is no question that opioid use disorder has become the fastest growing, serious, and far-reaching public health crisis facing our nation today. The growing and unprecedented opioid epidemic is a critical issue for public health and medical care throughout the country. Provisional estimates suggest that nearly 65,000 Americans died from a drug overdose in 2016, a 21% increase from the previous year and at a level higher than occurred during...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309705355
• ISBN13: 9780309705356
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 56 Pages