Sidney Gottlieb talks about triplicate prescriptions. He says he became aware of it in the early eighties, late seventies. There were already some prob problems with opioids in those days. "I would attend afte visory committee meetings, and not a small number of them had to do with opioids"
A mystery that begins with the half-baked idea of an obscure California bureaucrat in the 1930’s and ends with one of the worst public crises in American history. Chicken Little said the sky was falling. And sometimes Chicken Little is right.
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