A National Safety Council exhibit, Prescribed to Death: A Memorial to the Victims of the Opioid Crisis, which toured the United States in 2018 was a brutal snapshot of the current opioid crisis.1Is the real issue illicit drugs or patients initiated on opioid therapy acutely, who progress to illicit drugs for whatever reason?Decreasing prescribed opioids as an effective immediate solution may be an oversimplified approach to a very complex problem that is snowballing out of control and emerging as polydrug abuse, addiction and suicide.

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