How a 5-sentence letter helped fuel the opioid addiction crisis
Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 16:32
in Health & Medicine
Close to 200,000 Americans have died by overdosing on prescription painkillers, and a new report traces some of the blame to five simple sentences written nearly 40 years ago. The sentences, containing just 101 words, appeared in a 1980 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. They formed...