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• National Academies report of Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic
• Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic . (please note, there is also a audio version of this book, available through Audible.com. A number of the organizers have found this to be a particularly good way to 'read' the book).
• More than 25 Million dying in agony every year without morphiner.

Legal

• Ted Talk: Ethan Naelmann, Why we need to end the war on drugs
• Mother Jones, Meet the 33-Year-Old Genius Solving Baltimore’s Opioid Crisis
• Vox, The new war on drugs: Not every state is responding to the opioid epidemic with just public health policies
• 60 Minutes Overtime: DEA Whistleblower

Economic

• The Atlantic, When a Company Is Making Money From the Opioid Crisis
• NPR, Opioid Crisis Looms Over Job Market, Worrying Employers And Economists
• Combating the Opiate Crisis in Ohio, Governor's Cabinet Opiate Action Team

Education

• The Virginian Pilot, Fighting opioid crisis, Virginia Beach schools are using drug curriculum starting in 1st grade
• Inside a Massive, Successful Effort to Stop Prescribing So Many Opioids

Misc.

• Storyville Silk Road Drugs, Death and the Dark Web Documentary 2017  
• Ted Talk: Johann Hari, Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong     
• Seven Days of Heroin: This is what an epidemic looks like  
• ScientificAmerican.com The Social Life of Opioids 

From Recovery/Treatment Centers

•  TriggerHealth Predictive system of care for addiction recovery
• https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/29/health/drugs-opioids-addiction-heart-endocarditis.html

How teenagers see the problem

•  Escape Addiction Spoken Word  
• “Addiction Poem” A Message of Hope Spoken Word

From Past IdeaLabs, Innovation Labs & Sandpits

• http://hub.ki/groups/resources/wiki/ArticlesAndOutputFromPreviousWorkshops
• http://knowinnovation.com/2016/11/pioneering-collaborative-team-science/