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Oxycontin: How Purdue Pharma Helped Spark the Opioid Epidemic

Posted April 22nd, 2016 at 12:27 pm (UTC-5)
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In the first decade of this century, the overdose death rate increased nearly four times, with admissions to addiction treatment programs up six times over the same time period. Prescription opioids now kill more Americans every year than illegal ones.

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