--- title: Five Best: Opioid Crisis Presents a Moral Crisis For Doctors description: The opioid epidemic presents a deepening moral crisis for doctors, how veterans are helping ease America’s teacher shortage and more. canonical: https://time.com/4996701/the-opioid-epidemic-presents-a-moral-crisis-for-doctors/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-25T16:00:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:22.991Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The Opioid Epidemic Presents a Moral Crisis For Doctors og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4996701/the-opioid-epidemic-presents-a-moral-crisis-for-doctors/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Opioid Epidemic Presents a Moral Crisis For Doctors twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Opioid Epidemic Presents a Moral Crisis For Doctors by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 25, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 25, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**For doctors, the opioid epidemic presents a deepening moral crisis.**](https://www.statnews.com/2017/10/23/addiction-opioids-prescribing-doctors/) By Jay Baruch in _STAT News_ **2\.** [**How veterans are helping ease America’s teacher shortage.**](http://theweek.com/articles/720687/how-veterans-are-helping-ease-americas-teacher-shortage) By Madeleine Deliee in the _Week_ **3\.** [**The argument for medical cannabis is on shaky ground.**](https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/the-bad-science-of-medical-cannabis) By Elizabeth Finkel in _Cosmos_ **4\.** [**Your mindset can impact your health more deeply than you think.**](https://www.rwjf.org/en/culture-of-health/2017/10/does-the-mind-impact-health.html) By Alia Crum at the _Robert Wood Johnson Foundation_ **5\.** [**Strangers can hijack your computer to mine for cryptocurrency.**](https://www.wired.com/story/cryptojacking-cryptocurrency-mining-browser/) By Lily Hay Newman in _Wired_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: Opioid Crisis Presents a Moral Crisis For Doctors ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4996701/the-opioid-epidemic-presents-a-moral-crisis-for-doctors/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4996701/the-opioid-epidemic-presents-a-moral-crisis-for-doctors/"},"headline":"The Opioid Epidemic Presents a Moral Crisis For Doctors","datePublished":"2017-10-25T16:00:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:22.991Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4996701/the-opioid-epidemic-presents-a-moral-crisis-for-doctors/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Education","Technology","medical marijuana","health","opioid epidemic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4996701/the-opioid-epidemic-presents-a-moral-crisis-for-doctors/","name":"The Opioid Epidemic Presents a Moral Crisis For Doctors"}}]}] ```