Professor Tomas J. Philipson Discusses the Opioid Crisis

Harris Public Policy Professor Tomas J. Philipson recently penned an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, discussing the government's efforts to curb the opioid crisis – and the government's complicity in the crisis.

"Our government is scapegoating and suing the private sector, when the most important driver of the crisis was the federal government’s indiscriminate financing of the underlying opioid prescriptions," Philipson writes.

Full coverage available at the Wall Street Journal.