The few states that did triplica programes usually dropped by the early 19 nineties. The mere thought of the government questioning their judgment created a high level of anxiety in the focus group room among the doctors. A third of the american population lived in the triplicate states. They got the full perdu treatment. If you wanted to know how much of the opioid crisis was caused by oxiconton, all you had to do was compare what happened to therip cate states with everywhere else. And what she and her colleagues found was that the triplicates rule was everything.
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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