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May 25

55m 15s

Episode 91: Drug Surveillance Won’t Stop...

CHRISTOPHER MORAFF, TROY FARAH, ZACHARY SEIGEL

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Opioids are some of the best drugs ever invented. News flash! But that’s not something you’ll hear from the mainstream media anymore. No, the official message is that opioids are only problematic and even in the instances where they are prescribed by doctors, there’s this baggage, this stigma and shame attached to it. And no,...

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