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Opioids and lawsuits: How the pain pills were sold

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IN 2016 a coroner’s office in Ohio had to store corpses in refrigerated lorries for a week because residents were overdosing on opioids faster than their bodies could be processed. This year has been no better: the coroner borrowed space from a local funeral parlour to stow the dead. Largely because of opioids, Ohio has the third-highest drug-overdose death rate in the country. In a recent survey, four out of ten adults there reported knowing someone who has overdosed on prescription …Original Article

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David Miller

a pharmacist, a tech enthusiastic, who explored the Internet to gather all latest information pharma, biotech, healthcare and other related industries.

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