"Covid isn't Merely Overshadowing the Overdose Crisis--It's Directly Worsening It."
The nationwide surge in drug abuse predates the Covid-19 pandemic but has risen to new highs during it. Causes of the crisis--the role of physician prescribing habits and societal problems like poverty and joblessness—and the implications of potential solutions on pain treatment, are explored in three essays in the latest issue of the Hastings Center Report. Read more about the essays here. In a companion essay in Hastings Bioethics Forum, Travis Rieder, one of the Hastings Center Report authors, elaborates on the connection between Covid-19 and drug abuse: “Covid isn’t merely overshadowing the overdose crisis—it’s directly worsening it.” Read the Hastings Bioethics Forum post.
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