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  1. 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.

  2. Aug 26, 2016 · Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an unprecedented letter to doctors and other medical professionals on Thursday, asking for their help to solve the United States’ devastating opioid epidemic. “The opioid epidemic is one of the most pressing public health crises we’re facing,” Murthy told The Huffington Post.

  3. Aug 25, 2016 · Like many doctors, his friend, a cardiologist in Florida, learned in medical school and in residency that opioids werent addictive as long as a patient was truly in pain, Murthy said.

  4. Apr 29, 2021 · Dr. Vivek Murthy: How We Can Overcome the Opioid Crisis. This week, we revisit an important episode of “Why Am I Telling You This?” on the escalating opioid crisis, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-10 pandemic.

  5. 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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  6. Feb 5, 2023 · How did everything spread from Florida? FOSTER: The opioid crisis gained its foothold first in Appalachia and some pockets in the Northeast – but then with Florida, it basically turned into a...

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  8. Apr 28, 2016 · Health News Florida recently sat down with Murthy at the annual Association of Health Care Journalists conference, and discussed some key issues he says are a focus of his time as Surgeon General: addiction, heroin abuse and HIV infections.

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