
Pushing Painkillers | An Untapped Market | S53-E1
American Innovations
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In 19 90, Richard sackler is having dinner with his cousin at a stake house in connecticut. Cathy cuts into her chicken and casually brings up the main reason she wanted to have this dinner with richard. Kathy: Have you thought about using oxy coton? Oxy codon, it's an opioid similar to morphine, but more potent. In 19 91, the predu frederick board, consisting of raymond and mortimer, as well as several of their children, spins off a new company. And while doctor russell portnoy continues to change doctors attitudes about opioids, one of his favorite statistics became that four out of 11 hospital patients given opioids for pain are
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