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The roots of the North American opioid crisis, and 3 key strategies for stopping it

By Rohan Anand, Post Doctoral Fellow, British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, University of British Columbia
M. Eugenia Socias, Assistant Professor, Dept of Medicine, University of British Columbia and Research Scientist with the BC Centre on Substance Use, University of British Columbia

There were more than 100,000 opioid-related deaths in North America in 2022. How the crisis grew to such proportions, and three potential paths to ending it.

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