Robert Heimer, a professor of epidemiology and pharmacology at the Yale School of Public Health, shares the surprising history of opioid use.
For many Americans, it was the prescription of a well-meaning physician that sent them down the dark road. Aggressive marketing and over-prescribing of painkillers touched off a scourge of opiate addiction and Congress, pushed by the destruction it had wrought, introduced a new law to reform painkiller prescribing.
Published: Monday, January 8, 2018
