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Opioid crisis shows partnering with industry can be bad for public health

  • Written by Jonathan H. Marks, Director of the Bioethics Program and affiliate faculty in Law and International Affairs, Pennsylvania State University
What is each partner looking to get?Africa Studio/Shutterstock.com

“Show me the bodies!” someone demanded at the end of my lecture a few years ago.

As a scholar of public health ethics, law and policy, I had just warned an audience of professors and university administrators about the perils of partnering with, or taking money from,...

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