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Christopher S. Courtney, M.D.

Christopher S. Courtney, M.D.

Christopher Courtney is a practicing emergency medicine physician and president of Scottsdale Emergency Associates.

COMMENTARY

Fentanyl’s newest victims are our children. Partisan gridlock means we aren’t protecting them.

By: - March 17, 2023

Andrew was just 15 when he arrived in my Scottsdale emergency room, pale, lifeless and in cardiac arrest.  His friends, who had been joking with him on their way to school just two hours prior, told us he wasn’t a recreational drug-user. Andrew was a varsity athlete and a 4.5-GPA student. Unfortunately, he also suffered […]