The Hippocratic oath is the medical community’s creed. It guides doctors to ensure that when physical and mental health is at risk, a doctor’s first concern is to not do anything to make things worse.
The onset of the opioid crisis is testing this creed. From 2013 to 2015, Utah ranked seventh in the nation for drug overdose deaths. In 2015 that meant 24 people overdosing each month. It is a crisis – a man-made one. A medical one. A Big Pharma one.
The Drug Enforcement Agency, in partnership with state agencies and community organizations, announced on Wednesday it would be focusing efforts on a new program – DEA 360.