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Solving America’s painkiller paradox

Solving America’s painkiller paradox

Here’s how to fix America’s painkiller problem — without leaving pain patients behind. By German Lopez for VOX, Illustrations by Javier Zarracina his year, researchers uncovered a simple method for getting doctors to reduce profligate prescriptions of drugs like OxyContin and Percocet that have contributed to America’s opioid epidemic: informing doctors that one of their patients had...