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Tamper-resistant drugs cannot solve the opioid crisis.

January 18, 2017

Leece P, Orkin AM, Kahan M. CMAJ. 2015;187(10):717-718.

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Health care organizations have implemented various strategies to address the opioid epidemic. This commentary explains why use of tamper-resistant drug formulations to avert opioid-related harm is unlikely to work and may hinder policy-focused solutions to improve opioid prescribing and use.

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