THE STARTUPS TAKING ON OPIOIDS
by EMILY CANAL
Nov 01, 2017
3 minutes
FROM 2001 TO 2015, the number of Americans who died from overdosing on opioids—the addictive painkilling narcotics made from opium or its chemical analogs—more than quadrupled, to 22,589, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Deaths from the illicit and powerful opioid heroin increased more than sevenfold over that span. “Right now, it’s too easy to access highly addictive opioids that are killing people, and too difficult to access the treatments for opioid addiction,” says Andrew Kolodny, co-director of opioid policy research at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and
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