Unhooked: Tackling Opioid Addiction and Behavioral Health Conditions through a Population health Model

The Path to Overcoming the Opioid Addiction Crisis

For over twenty years, America's opioid addiction crisis has been spiraling out of control-and the COVID-19 pandemic just made matters worse. Even though billions of dollars are spent annually on substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, the patient numbers keep climbing-because of a misguided focus on episodic health emergencies rather than long-term care that's proven to be much more effective and cost-efficient.

Clearly, it's time for a radi...