Pain Medication is Not a Gateway to Heroin [TheFix.com]

Samantha Sangenito 4/12/164:00 AM

As the death toll from opioids and heroin rises, people are looking for answers, and also, someone to blame. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Tom Frieden, thinks he’s found both, in light of recently calling the epidemic of overdoses “doctor-driven,” where it’s urged that prescribers reign in the number of patients—particularly those with chronic pain—prescribed to opioid pain relievers. He believes that the epidemic “can be reversed in part by doctors' actions."

[For more of this story, written by Zachary Siegel, go to https://www.thefix.com/pain-pr...s-not-lead-to-heroin]

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