By Tamim Choudhury, Texas A&M University Health Science Center Highlights The opioid crisis costs an estimated $78.5 billion annually Forecasts predict an annual death toll increase by at least 35 percent from 2015 to 2027 College of Pharmacy professor Juan F. Castro: “It is up to each one of…
By Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University Health Science Center Rather than being considered a miracle pill that magically takes away pain, prescription opioids are increasingly being seen as a precursor to heroin addiction and the cause of potentially deadly overdoses themselves. However, select patients do still…