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Opioid overdose: A bioethicist explains why restricting supply may not be the right solution

  • Written by: Travis N. Rieder, Director of the Master of Bioethics degree program at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
imageWhat's the best way to solve America's opioid overdose crisis?BackyardProduction/ iStock via Getty images

Year after year, America’s drug overdose crisis is worsening.

In the 12-month period ending in June 2021, the most recent period for which there is reliable data, more than 101,000 people died from drug overdose in the U.S., – an...

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