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Re:Most Doctors Are Ill-Equipped to Deal with the Opioid Epi... by DrHuman on Sunday September 16, 2018 @11:45AM (#17999447)
Doctors in the US were getting kickbacks for prescribing opioids. This incentivized prescribing opioids for all types of cases that wouldn't normally need it, and led to "pill mills" flooding neighborhoods with drugs. Big pharma is behind the crisis in the US.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/15/17355722/op...

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