The 1980 NEJM Letter That Fueled the Opioid Crisis
What do you do when a letter in a prestigious medical journal has been so routinely mis-cited it’s taken on a life of its own? Like when pharmaceutical companies have used its data to spin their dangerous painkillers as safe, and the resulting overprescription fueled an opioid epidemic now consuming the country?
June 2, 2017 at 12:04PM
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