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Letters to the Editor - July 2018
Greetings Epi Monitor,
Just read a back issue of the Epi Monitor from Jan
2018. Loved the list of public health issues and was struck by the
absence of the new wave of opioid deaths. This is not my area of
specialty, and yes, drug addiction has been within the purview of
epidemiology for some time. But the stream of new highly potent,
highly addictive pain killers, and the role the pharmaceutical
industry has played in marketing them seems to pose yet a new public
health problem for the United States.
Thanks for making me think about these issues!
Melissa J. Perry,
ScD, MHS, FACE
The George Washington University
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