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Opioid Analgesics: Synthetic and Semisynthetic Opioids
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The Opioid Epidemic and Psychiatry: The Time for Action Is Now

Mary F Brunette1, David W Oslin1, Lisa B Dixon1

  • 1Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, Dallas (all authors); Department of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire (Brunette); Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center, Philadelphia (Oslin); Department of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York (Dixon, Erlich, First); Department of Psychiatry, Tufts Medical Center, Boston (Adler); Optum Idaho, Boise (Berlant); Department of Psychiatry, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, New York (Siris); Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora (Winston).

Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.)
|September 11, 2019
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Administration and managementAlcohol and drug abuseBuprenorphineOpioidPsychiatry

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