#addiction-medicine

#addiction-medicine

Dr. Elyse Stevens had a reputation for taking on complex medical cases, including people who'd been battling addiction for decades. Some were chronic-pain patients on high doses of opioids; others were sex workers and people living on the street. "Many of my patients are messy, the ones that don't know if they want to stop using drugs or not," said Stevens, a primary care and addiction medicine doctor.

If Narcan were suddenly to disappear from pharmacy shelves, more people would die of overdoses. Pretty simple.