opioid pandemic

COMMENTARY

How the pandemic helped spread fentanyl and drive opioid overdose deaths to a grim new high

BY: - November 30, 2021

By Andrew Kolodny, Brandeis University For the past 20 years, I have been engaged in efforts to end the opioid epidemic, as a public health official, researcher and clinician. And for every one of those years I have looked on as the number of deaths from drug overdoses has set a new record high. Yet […]