A Comprehensive Approach to the Opioid Epidemic

Affiliations

¹ Dr. Patrick is from the Department of Pediatrics, Department of Health Policy, the Mildred Stahlman Division of Neonatology, the Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research, and the Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; email: stephen.patrick@vanderbilt.edu.

Editorial

Stephen W Patrick. Obstet Gynecol. 2017 Jul.

. 2017 Jul;130(1):7-9.

doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000002118.

¹ Dr. Patrick is from the Department of Pediatrics, Department of Health Policy, the Mildred Stahlman Division of Neonatology, the Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research, and the Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; email: stephen.patrick@vanderbilt.edu.

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