History of Medicine
Aug 2020
Marcia Meldrum, PhD
This third era of opioids ruining thousands of US lives follows a first era of iatrogenic addiction stemming from the Harrison Act of 1914, and a second was marked by changes in pain treatment attitudes between 1950 and 1970.
AMA J Ethics. 2020; 22(8):E729-734. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2020.729.