From time to time on Neurosurgery Blog, you will see us cross-posting or linking to items from other places when we believe they hit the mark on an issue. Since we are smack dab in the middle of our focus-month on topics related to pain, we wanted to bring attention to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Rx Awareness campaign. To raise awareness of prescription opioid abuse and overdose, this campaign is evidence-driven and tells the real stories of people whose lives were torn apart by opioid abuse. To read more about this effort, click here.