DEATH PANEL
The feds could choke off the supply of pills flooding American streets tomorrow. Instead, they let Big Pharma crank out 151 tons of it last year.
John Temple is an associate professor of journalism at West Virginia University and the author of American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Team of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic (Lyons Press, Sept. 2015). Parts of this column were adapted from American Pain.