In 19 93, sid published a monograph reiterating the need to get serious about opiot prescriptions. A national tripl programme would clearly have slowed the advance of oxiconton 800 and forty one thousand people have died of drug overdoses since the 19 nineties. How many of those would now be alive? In a perfect world, had everyone listened to nighti was saying in 91, what all you guys were saying back in 91, we would have had a very different and much less damaging opiod epidemic over the last 20 years. There's no question about that, because it's a clear public help from he's right.
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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