The Opioid Crisis: `What Have We Learned and Where Do We Go from Here`?
(WorldNews Netherlands)

Anesthesiology and pain medicine should play a leading role in developing effective alternatives and solutions to the US opioid crisis, according to the November issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia-a special thematic issue presenting information on the `background, problems, and possible solutions to the opioid epidemic.` The special issue presents research reviews and expert commentaries on the opioid crisis-focusing on the role of anesthesia and pain medicine physicians who care for patients undergoing surgery and those in need of specialized pain clinic care. Guest Editors Honorio T. Benzon, MD, of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, and T. Anthony Anderson, MD, PhD,...