Opioid Crisis Requires New Approaches to Prescription Opioid Management

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Original post: Newswise - Drug and Drug Abuse Opioid Crisis Requires New Approaches to Prescription Opioid Management

In a special article published Online First in Anesthesiology, the official peer-reviewed journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Editor-in-Chief Evan D. Kharasch, M.D., Ph.D., Editor J. David Clark, M.D., Ph.D., and former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, M.D., M.P.H., introduced their groundbreaking new concept, a prescription opioid ecosystem, to combat the opioid crisis and the opioid paradox.