Guess what the Surgeon General declared a bigger problem than cancer?

In a recent blog post by North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA), Sonia Szlyk, MD, comments on the opioid epidemic, and how it is a bigger problem for Americans than we might think

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Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on North American Partners in Anesthesia’s blog.

If you answered “Addiction”, you’re dead right. In a November 2016 interview on National Public Radio (NPR), Surgeon General Vivek Murthy stated addiction is a bigger health problem than cancer. I found this to be a pretty bold statement. During his interview, Murthy discussed America’s addiction crisis and highlighted the misuse and abuse of opioids, tobacco and alcohol. Murthy went on to state that 20.8 million people in the US are living with a substance abuse disorder. Click here to continue>>

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