Michael Ashburn
In 2016, more than 63,000 people overdosed and died; opioids caused approximately 66% of those deaths, according to research from the CDC.
“To put that in perspective, 58,220 American service members died during the entire Vietnam War, which lasted from 1955 to 1975,” Michael Ashburn, MD, MPH, MBA, director of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care at Penn Medicine, told Healio. “The highest annual death rate attributed to AIDS was 43,000 in 1995. We are in the middle of a public health crisis, and need to dedicate much more (Read more...)
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