Opioid Crisis

August 2025

• Aug 31, 2025ExplainersWhat Is the Opioid Crisis? Analyzing Its Causes and EffectsThe opioid crisis has killed more than 645,000 Americans since 1999. Understand the three waves, the neuroscience of addiction, Purdue Pharma's...19 MIN6.5k

March 2024

• Mar 8, 2024CultureInsights on Drug Policy: Prohibition vs LegalizationWhat happened when Portugal decriminalized all drugs in 2001? What does cannabis legalization data show? What is harm reduction and does it work?20 MIN5.4k

July 2022

• Jul 2, 2022ConceptsThe Cobra Effect in Healthcare: Treatment and HarmIatrogenesis is harm caused by medical treatment itself, from the opioid crisis to antibiotic resistance.21 MIN1.3k