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The 10 Best Books for Understanding the Opioid Crisis

READING MAKES YOU SMARTER –

Oct. 18, 2024 – The opioid crisis and the punitively high cost of insulin seem like two sides of the same terrible coin: when healthcare is more about profit than healing. We are barely beginning to understand the full scope of the devastation wrought by the corporate pharmaceutical companies who prioritized stock price over pain relief and tore apart generations of American families. 

Below are ten books that shed a little light on that.  

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C Luke

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