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Is it wrong to ask your doctor for opioids?

  • Written by Travis N. Rieder, Research Scholar at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
Is it wrong to ask your doctor for opioids?When should you ask your doctor for opioids?Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock.com

More than 42,000 people died in 2016 from an opioid overdose. Forty percent of these deaths involved a prescription opioid. Overall, deaths from opioid overdoses have contributed to a decrease in American life expectancy for the second year in a row. The last time th...

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