Why Are Doctors Still Prescribing Opioids? Orbitals 404

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May 13, 202114:56Science & Medicine

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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