Policy Approaches to the Opioid Crisis, Featuring Remarks from Sir Angus Deaton, Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, and Professor Bertha K. Madras

Brookings Institution. 11/03/2017 These presentations and panel discussion focus on how public policy can address the opioid epidemic. Speakers discuss the underlying issues that contributed to the opioid crisis, increased rates of alcoholism and suicide among certain segments of the American population, and the report of the President ' s Commission on Combatting Opioid Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis. (Video or Multimedia)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - December 12, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news