Reconstructing Healthcare: Innovative Solutions For Employers To Lower Their Healthcare Costs

Topics: Opioid Crisis Advocacy Pain Management Mental Health Addiction Chronic Pain Stress Management In this episode, Michael introduces you to Harry Nelson, a leading health law expert, and the author of The United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating A Nation in Pain. Join us as we discuss the history of the opioid crisis, the implications of the current epidemic and what role employers can play in being part of the solution. Here’s a glance at what we discuss in this episode: Why Harry was inspired to write The United States of Opioids: A Prescription for Liberating A Nation in Pain The evolution of America’s first opioid crisis in the late 1800s and early 1900s and how the reverberations from the first crisis are evident in the current crisis How the second leg of the Opioid crisis began in the late 70’s and early 80’s How it was only in the early 2000s is when we first began identifying data on overdose, death rates and addiction related to opioids In 2017, there were o