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Opioid crisis: How did we get here?

  • Written by Lynne Anderson, Senior Editor, Health & Medicine, The Conversation

Lawmakers meet today to try to finalize legislation to solve the nation’s opioid crisis. It’s an issue that The Conversation has been covering for many months.

How can it be that nearly half a million people in the U.S. are addicted to heroin and another two million have substance use disorders related to prescription drug abuse? In...

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