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The Doctors Who Started the Opioid Epidemic
SICK
By refusing to accept their inability to separate pain relief from addiction, physicians have long suffered the sin of hubris—and their patients have paid the price.
Paul A. Offit
Published
Apr. 1 2017
12:01AM EDT
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast
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