Prescribed Painkillers Didn’t Cause the Opioid Crisis https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/a3z98b/big-pharma-didnt-cause-the-opioid-crisis-most-pain-patients-dont-get-addicted People who need pain meds aren’t usually the ones who get addicted. A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine produced stark headlines: “A 5-sentence letter helped trigger America’s deadliest drug overdose crisis ever.” (Vox) “The One-Paragraph Letter From 1980 That Fueled the Opioid […]
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