The consensus among leading public health experts has long been that the spiraling U.S. opioid epidemic cannot be effectively curbed with half-measures.
Some in Congress have been trying to act on the recommendations from experts, introducing legislation to spend $10 billion a year on treatment, research, prescriber monitoring, and other consensus priorities. But as heroin-like chemicals continue to push the overall overdose death toll to grim new yearly records, that call to action...