The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
Yngvild Olsen (Medical Director, Institutes for Behavior Resources),Joshua M. Sharfstein (Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement and Professor of the Practice in Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know ®
Yngvild Olsen (Medical Director, Institutes for Behavior Resources),Joshua M. Sharfstein (Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement and Professor of the Practice in Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
An incisive, essential guide to understanding one of today’s most urgent - and complex - problems.
The opioid epidemic is responsible for the first sustained decline in U.S. life expectancy since the 1960s. In 2017, more than 50,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose-to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands who live with some measure of opioid addiction every day.
The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know ® is an accessible, nonpartisan overview of the causes, politics, and treatments tied to the most devastating health crisis of our time. Its comprehensive approach and Q&A format offer readers a practical path to understanding the epidemic from all sides. This includes:
* the basic science of opioids
* the nature of addiction * the underlying reasons for the opioid epidemic * effective approaches to helping individuals, families, communities, and national policy * myths and common misunderstandings related to opioid addiction
Written by two expert physicians and enriched with stories from their experiences the crosshairs of this epidemic, this book is a critical resource for any general reader - and for the individuals and families fighting this fight in their own lives.
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