HOPE FOR A TROUBLED NATION Haven’t we all been looking for answers to the epidemic of substance use disorder (SUD), opioid use disorder (OUD) and the burgeoning death toll from overdose in our country? We need some hope, and Beth Macy has served it up in Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice,…
The Centers for Disease Control says about 130 people now die every day in the United States as a result of the misuse of opioids – drug overdoses that often begin with an addiction to prescribed painkillers and lead to more easily obtained illegal drugs like heroin and synthetic opioids…