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Pro-painkiller echo chamber shaped policy amid drug epidemic

AP Health News - Fetched: September 19th, 2016, 8:00am UTC

For more than a decade, members of a little-known group called the Pain Care Forum have blanketed Washington with messages touting prescription painkillersamp;apos; vital role in the lives of millions of Americans, creating an echo chamber that has quietly derailed efforts to curb U.S. consumption of the drugs, which accounts for two-thirds of the worldamp;apos;s usage....

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