
How to Help Deflate America’s Opioid Bubble
According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, 130 or more people died from opioid-related drug overdoses each day in 2016 and 2017. Most were probably victims of the same type of marketing tactics that led to the 2008 global financial crisis.
BRUSSELS – The opioid epidemic in the United States, which the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared a public-health emergency in 2017, continues to escalate. To figure out how to resolve it, policymakers should look for lessons in what may seem to be an unrelated episode: the 2008 global financial crisis.