Doctors’ Role in the Opioid Crisis is “Like Cigarettes in the 1950s”

​The opioid crisis is going to get worse before it gets better, according to public health experts at 10 universities interviewed by STAT. More than 100 Americans die every day from opioids, the article said, creating a “swath of destruction that runs from tony New England suburbs to the farm country of California, from the beach towns of Florida to the Appalachian foothills.