Doctor Who Wrote 1980 Letter On Painkillers Regrets That It Fed The Opioid Crisis
In 1980, Dr. Hershel Jick wrote a one-paragraph letter about low rates of addiction among hospitalized patients given narcotics. It was later cited as evidence that long-term opioid use was safe.
A one-paragraph letter, barely a hundred words long, unwittingly became a major contributor to today's opioid crisis, researchers say.
"This has recently been a matter of a lot of angst for me," Dr. Hershel Jick, co-author of that letter, told host David Greene. "We have published nearly 400
