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EPISODE · Feb 15, 2017 · 32 MIN

US Surgeon General - “For far too long addiction has been looked at as a moral failing”

from Medicine and Science from The BMJ · host The BMJ

Vivek Murthy, the US surgeon general, has highlighted prescription opioid misuse as a serious public health problem. In this podcast, Richard Hurley speaks to him about what he thinks needs to be done to tackle the issue. http://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.j715

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