Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by the aggressive marketing of OxyContin by its maker, Purdue Pharma. Purdue, owned by a wealthy and secretive family--the Sacklers--knew early on that …
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"Groundbreaking...'he shocking account of the origins of today's opioid epidemic, the creators of this plague, and the way to help stop it."'Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic "Prescient...' landmark work of investigative journalism."'D…
"Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by the aggressive marketing of OxyContin by its maker, Purdue Pharma. Purdue, owned by a wealthy and secretive family--the Sacklers--knew early on that…
The opioid epidemic
by Olsen, Yngvild, SHARFSTEIN, JOSHUA M.
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"The opioid epidemic is responsible for the first sustained decline in U.S. life expectancy since the 1960s. In 2016, more than 50,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose -- to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands who live with some measure of opioid addiction every day. …