Commentary: Opioids are worse for women

The opioid epidemic's disproportionate impact on women is the latest, and most destructive, symptom of wider gender-based disparities that leave millions of American women in worse health than men.

Data show that deaths among women from opioid overdose have increased at a much faster rate than for men, 400 percent compared with 265 percent. And states where doctors write the most opioid prescriptions per 100 residents are also states with the