Sunday, April 16, 2017

Scientific American:Opioid Addiction Is a Huge Problem, but Pain Prescriptions Are Not the Cause

Scientific American: Opioid Addiction Is a Huge Problem, but Pain Prescriptions Are Not the Cause

These epidemics seem to come and go. It may be that people see the damage and stay away  from drugs until enough time has passed the lesson is lost.

1 comment:

pithom said...

Obvious sleight of hand. What might explain cross-sectional aspects of this do nothing to explain the time series ones. Fact is, the opioid crisis started in the late 1990s, when the economy was good and things were generally fine by U.S. standards.