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The Opiate Epidemic on a Different Level
This orthodoxy took root that pain was undermedicated and that opioid pain killers almost never caused addiction. Once it took root, that orthodoxy became extremely hard to expunge. So we ended up doing the literal opposite of what we should have done. The opiate story has some real villains who knew what as going on and were profiteering from that. I don't think there's any ringo in this case. No, there's no inglen. It was kind of benign negligence"