Six ways to end the opioids crisis

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton only recently announced her bid for office in 2016, she has already declared a few important issues on her presidential agenda, including the ever-important opioid crisis in the United States. In order to work toward a safer world that is free of opioid abuse, here are six steps we can take.

1. Redefine the problem. Many people who suffer from chronic pain rely on opioids to live a semblance of a normal life. There may be no alternative treatments for them. We should view the prescription opioid problem, instead, as the chronic pain problem. Many are chim...