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Q1

In response to the opioid crisis, the medical community should be limiting prescription opioids. As depicted in the film, physicians have ben prescribing opioids at very high rates. As such, medical community should take actions that reduce opportunities for the misuse of prescription opioids such as prescription drug monitoring programs. Medical community should also respond to the opioid crisis by promoting treatment.

Q2

My ideas for the next step in the fight against opioid epidemic are ensuring the balance between the valuable benefits of opioids in pain control against the risk of misuse. Further, stakeholder education is imperative. This means availing provider education in order to emphasize on the appropriate and limited role of opioids. Also, insurance companies should also be involved in terms of covering non drug pain therapies.

Q3

Yes, drug companies should be held responsible for the current opioid epidemic. It is imperative to note that the majority of people with opioid addiction started with prescribed painkillers.As such, it is prudent to argue that the drug companies that supply opioid to the prescription market have a played a significant role in the spread of the opioid crisis.

Q4

When they say Dr. Clegget ran a pill mill, they mean that he ran an illegal facility that masquerades as a regular pain clinic but prescribes painkillers without sufficient medical history or physical examinations. The harm that a pill mill can cause is creating further medical complications by prescribing drugs without proper medical history or even examination which could result to addictionhence opioid crisis. He difficulties in stopping is pill mill is lies in the difficulty of spotting one because they all

Q5

The pill mill is the aspect that I had never seen before. I never knew that an illegal facility could pose as a legal one and prescribe drugs without medical examinations and medical monitoring or diagnosis. I believe this is one of the major contributors of the opioid epidemic.

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