USA. The Opioid Industryʼs Legacy: A Generation of Prescribed Suffering
USA. The Opioid Industryʼs Legacy: A Generation of Prescribed Suffering
The opioid industry’s brilliant and multifaceted campaign to increase opioid prescribing has been the subject of books, documentary films, congressional investigations, and state litigation resulting in global settlements of more than $50 billion. From these sources, many have learned how corporate greed resulted in an epidemic of opioid use disorder (OUD) with devasting consequences for millions of American families. But the full extent of the opioid industry’s far-reaching effort to manipulate the medical community, policymakers, and the public is still coming to light.
Andrew Kolodny, MD, and Robert M. Bohler, PhD, MPH
Psychiatrist.com, USA, 18.12.2024
https://www.psychiatrist.com/jcp/opioid-industrys-legacy-generation-of-prescribed-suffering/