Our study’s principal investigator Dr. Stefan Kertesz recently offered a popular blog post for Sensible Medicine on a new scientific paper arguing that prescription opioid reductions were likely to reduce suicides at the regional level. The new paper by authors at Columbia University suggested that analyzing prescriptions and suicides at the regional level will help clinicians better understand the risk of suicide for any particular individual. Dr. Kertesz criticizes the piece in an article titled “Suicide and Opioids: No Easy Answers, No Sweeping Conclusions”. Read it, or listen, here.
