16 May Addressing the opioid crisis: abuse deterrent-formulations and the future of pain management
The opioid epidemic in the United States is a serious national crisis that affects public health as social and economic welfare. From 1999 to 2017, more than 700,000 people died from a drug overdose; of which, 218,000 were related to prescription opioid use/abuse.1 In 2017...