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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Prescription Opioid Use Continues to Play Role in Opioid Crisis

Originally published by our sister publication Pain Medicine News.

Matthew Ellis, PhD, MPE

Instructor & Epidemiologist
Department of Psychiatry
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

In a recent commentary, it was suggested that that the origins of the opioid crisis involve a complex, intertwined set of factors that allowed “unscrupulous” physicians and pill mills to drive a prescription opioid crisis that subsequently evolved into an illicit opioid overdose