Pushing Painkillers | An Untapped Market | S53-E1
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Pushing Pain Killers - Episode One
In the early 19 seventies, london, saint christopher's hospice was opened. Doctor cecily saunders watched a middle aged woman dab a tear from her eye as her elderly mother moans in her bed. Saunders herself is a medical school graduate, and she hired doctor robert twycross to help her research how to better use medication to ease pain. The patient's daughter sniffles and continues on, i toug this was the right place for her, but my mother hates to be away from home for more than a couple of hours. This is our three part series pushing pain killers, about the origins of the opioid abuse epidemic. Episode one: An untapped market
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