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How OxyContin Kicked Off the Heroin Epidemic

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The FDA was trying to make OxyContin safer. Instead, it accidentally launched a national crisis.

Tanya Basu
Tanya Basu 

Senior Editor, Science

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Tanya Basu

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Senior Editor, Science

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