Boston—Max Baker would have been 24 years old on his next birthday, and likely a budding medical school student with aspirations of helping young people with opioid addiction. But Max never lived to see that day.
Instead, Max was the victim of a long-time opioid addiction that, while under control, proved deadly following preoperative administration of fentanyl after a car accident.
Yet if Max’s father, James L. Baker, MD, MPH, and Joseph Myers, MD, have their way, tragedies like