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Chief Frieden: How to end America's growing opioid epidemic
EXCLUSIVE: CDC Chief Frieden: How to end America's growing opioid epidemic
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One of the most heartbreaking problems I’ve faced as CDC director is our nation’s opioid crisis.
In 2015, more than 52,000 Americans lost their lives from an overdose. More than 33,000 of these deaths involved a prescription or illicit opioid.
Charleston
Gazette-Mail -- Eric Eyre
Drug
firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of overdoses
Between 2007 and 2012 — when McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen collectively shipped 423 million pain pills to West Virginia, according to DEA data analyzed by the Gazette-Mail — the companies earned a combined $17 billion in net income. Over the past four years, the CEOs of McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen collectively received salaries and other compensation of more than $450 million.
Highly
Recommended book:
Dreamland:
The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
-- by Sam Quinones
