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Data on opioid marketing could fuel efforts to restrict drug companies
Author(s) -
Enos Gary
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32237
Subject(s) - opioid epidemic , argument (complex analysis) , business , opioid , marketing , drug overdose , medicine , environmental health , poison control , receptor
As some states and localities respond to the opioid epidemic in part by debating restrictions on marketing by the drug companies seen as helping to create the crisis, newly published data linking marketing of opioids to overdose mortality rates offer some quantifiable evidence to bolster the argument for such controls.