Responding to the Opioid Crisis in North America and Beyond: Recommendations of the Stanford-Lancet Commission https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9261968

Responding to the Opioid Crisis in North America and Beyond: Recommendations of the Stanford-Lancet Commission https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9261968/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9261968/ The first wave of the opioid crisis began in the 1990s when the long-acting opioid OxyContin and other high potency opioids were employed for an extremely wide array of patients.