Roger Bate | AEIdeas
Policymakers have clamped down on prescribing practices of physicians and sanctioned pharmaceutical companies producing vast quantities of opioids. The result has been a lowering of legal opioid sales. Reducing prescriptions of opioids should create fewer addicts in the long run and is probably the right policy approach. But it’s a poisonous short-run trade-off.
Sally Satel | The Wall Street Journal
The emotional devastation of opioid addiction is staggering. So is the economic fallout. Families can be bankrupted by the cost of in-patient rehab. Sally Satel reviews two books on the epidemic: “Dopesick” by Beth Macy and “The Addiction Solution” by Lloyd I. Sederer.