Big Pharma funding efforts to keep Americans addicted and overdosing on opioid painkillers

‘Big Pharma is proving once again that it values profits more than human lives, as drug manufacturers fight efforts to curb the over-prescription of highly addictive and often deadly opioid drugs.

The makers of OxyContin, Vicodin and other opioid painkillers are pouring money into non-profit groups who are working against efforts to reform the way these drugs are prescribed.

Deaths from prescription opioid drug overdoses are on the increase – the National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that from “2001 to 2014 there was a 3.4-fold increase in the total number of deaths.”’

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