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Though many pharmaceutical companies are invaluable in reducing human suffering, Big Pharma is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Pharmaceutical companies have been deceptively promoting opioid use for over 25 years. This instituted practice contributed to “unprecedented increases in prescribing, opioid use disorder, and deaths by overdose.”
According to the Mayo Clinic, “Opioid prescribing soared from the 1990s to the early 2000s. By 2015, more than 1 in 3 U.S. adults received an opioid prescription.”
Holly Geyer, M.D., observed, "Multiple early studies have shown more than 80% of individuals who move to illicit opioids—particularly heroin—started on prescription opioids, according to …
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