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Opioid epidemic top priority for surgeon general
The opioid epidemic is U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams’ top priority and his position’s bully pulpit is his most potent weapon to effect change.
Because of that, Adams has publicly shared his own family’s struggle with addiction, which includes a brother who has been jailed as he fights substance abuse.
Adams described the opioid epidemic as an “all hands on deck” crisis, needing not just health care providers, but also mothers, fathers, even children: He tells his three kids to talk about their uncle’s plight with classmates, in hopes it will help them make good choices.
“Four people will die from overdoses in the time we’re having this conversation today,” Adams said Wednesday at a Harvard T.H.
Chan School of Public Health“Voices in Leadership” webcast. “That’s what I’m focused on foremost.”
In the minute program, Adams responded to questions from Robert Blendon, the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Public Health, profe