Drug makers flooded US with billions of opioid pills as epidemic surged, data shows
Drug makers and distributors flooded the US with more than 75bn opioid pills in the crucial years when the country’s and deaths surged to record levels, according to previously secret data released by an American court. The publication of the Drug Enforcement Administration statistics is a blow to some of the country’s biggest pharmaceutical firms that have paid hundreds of millions of dollars in out of court settlements in part to keep sealed evidence that they profiteered from escalating demand for opioids even as public health officials ...
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