“I’m a doctor, I hid my opioid addiction for 10 years”

“My opioid addiction happened over a 10-year period. Once I graduated medical school and became an intern and a resident, I had my own prescription pad… My addiction escalated, mainly because there was, and still is, no emphasis on physician health,” Dr Peter Grinspoon journals in Newsweek. He started illegally prescribing himself opioids.