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Jun 10, 2021 · In 2016, Dr. Murthy sent a letter to 2.3 million healthcare professionals urging them to join a movement to tackle the opioid epidemic. This was the first time in the history of the office that a Surgeon General had issued a letter calling the medical profession to action on this issue.
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Aug 26, 2016 · In his letter, Murthy noted that 2 million people in American have a prescription opioid use disorder, an unprecedented level of addiction that’s contributed to both increased heroin use and the spread of infectious diseases such as HIV and hepatitis C.
Aug 25, 2016 · But Dr. Vivek Murthy has an urgent reason: Americans are dying each year by the tens of thousands from overdoses of prescription painkillers such as Oxycontin and Vicodin.
Aug 26, 2016 · Murthy points out in the letter that overdose deaths from opioids have quadrupled since 1999, and prescriptions for powerful painkillers have risen to the point that there’s enough for every...
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Aug 25, 2016 · Opioids are “one of our greatest public health threats and it’s one that we have to respond to with speed and with urgency,” says U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.
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Aug 24, 2016 · The U.S. surgeon general wants every physician in the country to talk about and treat opioid abuse as a chronic illness, not a moral failing. Dr. Vivek Murthy believes physicians can make a difference by raising awareness.
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Apr 3, 2018 · Before he was fired last April, Murthy made the opioid epidemic a priority, issuing the first report from a surgeon general on addiction, and launching a campaign to end the opioid crisis.
