Department Blog

Posted 7/15/2016 by Linda Kesselring

The Opioid Epidemic in the United States

R. Gentry Wilkerson, MD, Hong Kim, MD, MPH, T. Andrew Windsor, MD, and Darren Mareiniss, MD, JD, published the article titled “The Opioid Epidemic in the United States” in the May issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America. It includes a review of current laws designed to curb opioid abuse and a description of efforts to distribute the antidote, naloxone, to at-risk individuals for use in the out-of-hospital setting.