Handling The Drug Overdose Problem With What Works

"John Oliver discusses why overdoses in the U.S. have been on the rise and what we should, and shouldn’t, be doing to prevent them."

Drug overdoses are a major blight on society and history shows the utter ineffectiveness of most programs. Click on the link below for some science-based approaches to the problem:

Harm Reduction: Last Week Today with John Oliver (HBO)

The Genesis Of The Opioid Crisis

"The patients of the nurse practitioner and aspiring reality star Jeffrey Young say he helped them like nobody else could. Federal prosecutors who charged him in a massive opioid bust say he overprescribed painkillers, often for 'money, notoriety, and sexual favors'.

"Young’s case provides a rare glimpse into the ways patients wind up addicted to the powerful painkillers fueling the national opioid epidemic."

Click on the link below for a podcast about a criminal case that's emblematic of how the present opioid crisis began.

The Experiment - The 'Rock Doc" Who Prescribed 1.4 Million Pain Pills