The Opioid Crisis Wake-Up Call

The opioid crisis is not an anomaly. Rather, the largest public health crisis in 100 years is a self-inflicted wound driven by a catastrophically dysfunctional health care system. Fortunately, the antidotes have been created and proven by forward-looking citizen leaders and employers. It’s time to apply these solutions everywhere to stop the crisis in its tracks —taking us a long way toward solving the larger disaster that is our health care system.

We need more resources to help those already enslaved by opioid overuse disorders, but we also need to turn off the enormous flow of people becoming addicted. If we don’t go upstream to stop addiction before it starts, we’ll never clean up the opioid crisis or prevent the next crisis.

In The Opioid Crisis Wake-Up Call, Dave Chase explores the already-existing solutions to the largest public health crisis in a 100 years, drawing heavily on the content and themes from his 2017 best seller, The CEO's Guide to Restoring the American Dream. It uncovers the upstream, systemic fixes designed to stop the crisis at its source.

As you read this, countless people are leaving clinics and hospitals with over 30-day supplies of opioids for lower back pain, asymptomatic wisdom teeth removal, and other inappropriate uses that have little evidence of helping. It's overarching message that fixing the Opioid Crisis takes us far down the path to fixing the broader dysfunction  U.S. health care system brings hope to all citizens.