With More Money Spent Marketing Opioids, More Overdose Deaths Followed, Study Says

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Fri, 01/18/2019 - 11:30am

The more money pharmaceutical companies spent marketing opioids to doctors, the more prescriptions doctors wrote for those drugs and more fatal opioid overdoses followed, according to a study published Friday in the journal JAMA Network Open.

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