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Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis (Rebroadcast)

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The Rise of Opioids in the US

Mortality rates in the US have risen for the first time in 10 years. The rise has been concentrated among a few groups, particularly white middle-aged men and women. Weilu says we need to think about over-medication and under-medication as not two poles of the use of pain medicine. But what we need to do is to understand that both of these things can be a problem at the same time.

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