Opioid crisis can’t be tackled without better pain management training for doctors

Oxycodone pills. Doctors need better training in pain management to help fight the opioid addiction crisis, a doctor writes. (AP)

The United States consists of a little over 4% of the world’s population but consumes 80% of the world’s opioids. Those statistics aren’t expected to let up any time soon.

Here in Illinois, there was a nearly 36% increase in opioid-related deaths between 2019 and 2021.