--- title: Five Best: Compassion is Missing From the Opioid Crisis description: Compassion is missing from the opioid crisis conversation, workplace incivility is a major cause of employee turnover and more. canonical: https://time.com/5015103/compassion-is-missing-from-the-opioid-crisis-conversation/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-08T17:00:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:21.470Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Compassion is Missing From the Opioid Crisis Conversation og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5015103/compassion-is-missing-from-the-opioid-crisis-conversation/ 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: Compassion is Missing From the Opioid Crisis Conversation 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 --- # Compassion is Missing From the Opioid Crisis Conversation by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 8, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 8, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**What’s missing from the national conversation about the opioid crisis? Compassion.**](https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/whats-missing-national-discussion-opioid-epidemic) By Jerome Groopman in the _New Yorker_ **2\.** [**Workplace incivility is a silent epidemic and a major cause of employee turnover.**](http://transform.tamu.edu/news/workplace-health-silent-epidemic) By Ashley Green at the _College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M_ **3\.** [**We could feed more of the world by rearranging where crops are grown.**](http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2017/11/06/swapping-where-crops-are-grown-could-feed-an-extra-825-million-people/) By the Earth Institute at _Columbia University_ **4\.** [**Why can’t America take care of people with sickle cell disease?**](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/11/04/561654823/sickle-cell-patients-endure-discrimination-poor-care-and-shortened-lives) By Jenny Gold at _NPR_ **5\.** [**Should we let companies retaliate against hackers? Probably not. They could start a war.**](https://motherboard.vice.com/en%5Fus/article/a37njb/keith-alexander-nsa-hack-back) By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai in _Motherboard_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5015103/compassion-is-missing-from-the-opioid-crisis-conversation/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5015103/compassion-is-missing-from-the-opioid-crisis-conversation/"},"headline":"Compassion is Missing From the Opioid Crisis Conversation","datePublished":"2017-11-08T17:00:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:21.470Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5015103/compassion-is-missing-from-the-opioid-crisis-conversation/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Food","Hacking","Business","opioid crisis"],"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/5015103/compassion-is-missing-from-the-opioid-crisis-conversation/","name":"Compassion is Missing From the Opioid Crisis Conversation"}}]}] ```