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How can we get this right? Chronic pain and America’s opioid addiction crisis, Part 2

This past week, University of California Irvine received a historic $200 million gift from Susan and Henry Samueli to create a new College of Health Sciences. Headlines like “A $200 million donation threatens to tar UC Irvine’s medical school as a haven for quacks” and “Quackademic medicine at UC Irvine” …

The path to America’s opioid addiction

If you’ve read the headlines, you know that opioid addiction is a leading public health crisis in America. On an average day, pharmacists dispense more than 650,000 opioid prescriptions. As many as 1 in 4 people who use these prescriptions long-term will struggle with addiction. Overdose is now the leading …