By David C. Holzman
America appears to be losing the war on opioids.
“For the past three years in a row, life expectancy in Americans has declined, in large part due to complications in the epidemic of opioids,” an epidemic that afflicts more than 2 million Americans, said Josiah Rich, MD, MPH, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, in Providence, R.I.
“We’re losing an entire generation of people 18 to 45