Elaine Pozycki’s opinion piece in the St. Louis Patch:
Patients and parents have the right to know that the medicines they’re prescribed can lead to dependency and addiction, yet this is still not the case. A national survey done by the Hazeldon Betty Ford Foundation confirms what I have learned from talking with other parents, who, like me, have lost a child to this epidemic: that 6 in 10 doctors prescribe opioid painkillers without telling patients that they can be addictive.
Read the full article here.
