NYU School of Global Public Health Professor Don Des Jarlais provides compelling insight in a just-released PBS documentary on the history of opioids in New York City.
In New York City’s Opioid Drug History: A Relentless Cycle, this half-hour film reveals how drug addiction and medical treatment have fueled the presence of opioids over time, from morphine pills for housewives in the 1880s to lab-produced drugs like fentanyl today.
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