Opioid epidemic fuelled by 1 paragraph in journal, doctors say

Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 16:31 in Health & Medicine

A letter to the editor in a prestigious medical journal was part of a push to convince physicians to prescribe opioids more freely by downplaying addiction risks, Canadian researchers say.

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