Salvo31I have a new feature article in Salvo Magazine entitled “Dying to Feel Good: Modern Self-Realization & the Painkiller Addiction Epidemic.” This article is the culmination of  a year of research on the subject of prescription pain medicine, opiate drug addiction, and heroin. I caught on to this topic as I was updating bioethics.com and noticed there were several news items on the widespread use and abuse of prescription pain medicine, perfectly legal drugs that were devastating families and entire communities.

As I dug into the topic, I found opiate drug abuse from prescription drugs skyrocketed after 1990. As it turns out, there are several contributing factors to today’s epidemic.

I gave a presentation on the topic at The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity conference last June, and received some great feedback from medical health professionals. All of this came together in a piece that I hope will help people understand the complex factors contributing to the widespread abuse of prescription pain medicine.