To those who think doctors make money on opioids
A casual reader scanning the headlines would rightly infer a direct cause-and-effect relationship between pharmaceutical company payments and the number of opioid prescriptions written based on this headline displayed prominently on the CNN homepage. What follows is nothing short of a character assassination of the medical profession, portrayed as complicit drug pushers in bed with the pharmaceutical industry. Rather than a reasoned look at the history of causes of the …
To those who think doctors make money on opioids






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