How a 1980 letter fueled the opioid epidemic – Boston.com

How a 1980 letter fueled the opioid epidemic
Boston.com
Nearly 40 years ago, a respected doctor wrote a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine with some very good news: Out of nearly 40,000 patients given powerful pain drugs in a Boston hospital, only four addictions were documented. Doctors had been …
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