Key findings of investigation into harder-to-abuse opioids
Thursday, December 15, 2016 - 05:01
in Mathematics & Economics
The Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity investigated how pharmaceutical companies are using their political clout to push a new form of opioids as their answer to the epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse. The pills are marketed as abuse-deterrents because they usually are difficult to crush and dissolve, but they also are lucrative for the industry....