The Right to Pain Relief and Other Deep Roots of the Opioid Epidemic

Containing patient vignettes as well as scientific and policy controversies that have emerged as the opioid epidemic has evolved, The Right to Pain Relief and Other Deep Roots of the Opioid Epidemic examines the ethical and scientific concepts about pain that made the opioid epidemic possible and offers a new lens through which to view the opioid epidemic as a consequence of serious misunderstandings of both opioids and pain.