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Why Are Doctors Still Prescribing Opioids? Orbitals 404
Over half a million people in the US have died from an opioid overdose over the last 20 years, and a lot of the time they were prescribed those opioids by a doctor. So what makes these drugs so dangerous? And if we know...
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Why Are Doctors Still Prescribing Opioids? Orbitals 404 is an episode from Orbitals by The American Chemical Society. Over half a million people in the US have died from an opioid overdose over the last 20 years, and a lot of the time they...
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Published May 13, 2021, 14:56 long, audio available.
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