AcademyHealth: Whether it’s painkillers or heroin, we’re still in an opioid epidemic

Austin Frakt

February 9, 2015

Recent studies suggest that policies and practices to curb misuse of opioid painkillers may have been effective, in a way. But they may have also encouraged a shift to heroin. More in my AcademyHealth post.

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

AcademyHealth: Whether it’s painkillers or heroin, we’re still in an opioid epidemic

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