Opioid crisis: The letter that started it all – BBC News
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Opioid crisis: The letter that started it all
BBC News Canadian researchers have traced the origins of the opioid crisis to one letter published almost 40 years ago. The letter, which said opioids were not addictive, was published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in 1980. Dr David Juurlink … Opioid addiction crisis traced back to five-sentence scholarly letter in 1980 The One-Paragraph Letter From 1980 That Fueled the Opioid Crisis This one letter helped spark a national opioid epidemic |
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