The “War on Recovery” shines light on a shameful opioid policy response

On March 5, 2024, Lev Facher of STATNews <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2024/03/05/opioid-addiction-treatment-methadone-buprenorphine-restrictions/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">reports</a> on the desolate state of the US response to over 1 million drug overdose deaths in an extensively reported piece “How the U.S. is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the opioid epidemic” I recommend reading it and I’ll share my take. It’s a report all the more discouraging because I have been <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1080/08897077.2016.1261070?icid=int.sj-full-text.similar-articles.6" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">blunt</a> about the imbalanced US policy response since 2016, with harms jointly accruing to both people with addiction and people with pain. The topline from STATNews is this: <a href="https://stefankertesz.medium.com/the-war-on-recovery-shines-light-on-a-shameful-opioid-policy-response-82cf87562910">Click Here</a>