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The word “heroin” strikes terror into the heart of most Americans, with good reason. But the increasing heroin problem in the U.S. is actually just a small part of a much longer and deeper epidemic that was started by doctors and pharmaceutical companies beginning in the late 1990s. Paul Costello, a terrific interviewer, asked me to chart this history and review current policy options in this episode of his show One-on-One.
[Cross-posted at The Reality-Based Community]
Keith Humphreys is a Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University and served as Senior Policy Advisor in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Obama Administration. @KeithNHumphreys
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