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USA. County By County, Researchers Link Opioid Deaths To Drugmakers’ Marketing
USA. County By County, Researchers Link Opioid Deaths To Drugmakers’ Marketing
Researchers sketched a vivid line Friday linking the dollars spent by drugmakers to woo doctors around the country to a vast opioid epidemic that has led to tens of thousands of deaths.
The study, published in JAMA Network Open, looked at county-specific federal data and found that the more opioid-related marketing dollars were spent in a county, the higher the rates of doctors who prescribed those drugs and, ultimately, the more overdose deaths occurred in that county. (KHN – Kaiser Health News, USA, 18.01.2019)
https://khn.org/news/county-by-county-researchers-link-opioids-deaths-to-drugmakers-marketing