You Cannot Look a Guideline in the Eye: Medical Commitment, the Inversion of Ethics, and the Abandonment of Patients in the Opioid Crisis
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Authors
- Brian Lynch
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-09-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22802962
- Primary Topic
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Type
- preprint