Congress Needs an Opioid Intervention

Congress Needs an Opioid Intervention – Reason.com – J. Rich – November 2018

In an effort to “combat the opioid crisis” in America, Congress is calling for a slate of governmental interventions that have been tried, tested, and shown to cause more harm.

Too much of the new legislation is grounded in the “overprescription” hypothesis, which blames the current unprecedented rates of overdose on an expansion in the number of opioid prescriptions that began in the 1990s.