County by county, researchers link opioid deaths to marketing by drugmakers

Friday, January 18, 2019 - 16:10 in Health & Medicine

Researchers sketched a vivid line Friday linking the dollars spent by drugmakers to woo doctors around the country to a vast opioid epidemic that has led to tens of thousands of deaths. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, looked at county-specific federal data and found that the more opioid-related...

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