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Key findings of investigation into harder-to-abuse opioids

AP Health News - Fetched: December 15th, 2016, 6:00am UTC

The Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity investigated how pharmaceutical companies are using their political clout to push a new form of opioids as their answer to the epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse. The pills are marketed as abuse-deterrents because they usually are difficult to crush and dissolve, but they also are lucrative for the industry....

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