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Rohan Anand, Post Doctoral Fellow, British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, University of British Columbia

The roots of the North American opioid crisis, and 3 key strategies for stopping it

Approaching the opioid crisis from a public health perspective includes massively increasing access to care and treatment for patients experiencing substance use disorder. (Shutterstock)

The Netflix series Painkiller recently depicted how the over-prescribing of the medicine OxyContin wreaked havoc on American society.

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