The Opioid Crisis Wake-Up Call: Health Care is Stealing the American Dream. Here's How We Take it Back.

The opioid crisis is not an anomaly. Instead its a self-inflicted wound driven by a catastrophically dysfunctional health care system leading to what has become the largest public health crisis in 100 years. Fortunately proven antidotes exist--all created and spearheaded by forward-looking citizen leaders and employers. Its time to scale these solutions nationwide stop the crisis in its tracks and move us light years closer to solving the larger disaster that is our health care system.As you read this countless people are leaving clinics and hospitals with over 30-day supplies of opioids for lower back pain and other diagnoses for which opioids have little evidence of helping. Further people are receiving opioid prescriptions for procedures where evidence-based medicine doesnt justify such as many spinal procedures and asymptomatic wisdom tooth removal.We need to mobilize the resources necessary to help those already enslaved by opioid use disorders. At the same time we also need to turn off the enormous flow of people becoming addicted. Only by traveling upstream to stop addiction before it starts will we ever clean up the opioid crisis--and prevent future floods of addiction. In The Opioid Crisis Wake-Up Call Dave Chase explores the already-existing solutions to the largest public health crisis in a 100 years updating and expanding on the content and themes from his 2017 bestseller The CEOs Guide to Restoring the American Dream. Here he uncovers the upstream fixes designed to stop the crisis at its source. Chases message is this: resolving the opioid crisis at the CEO citizen and community level brings us miles closer to fixing the systemic failures of U.S. health care.