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

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.

@afrakt

Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Vice President and Chief Research Officer at Joint Commission. He is also Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and Editor in Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

Hidden information below

Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Vice President and Chief Research Officer at Joint Commission. He is also Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and Editor in Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

Subscribe

Email Address*