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Who's to blame for the opioid crisis?
Some of the lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are now going after Big Pharma. It’s all about the deadly epidemic of opioid use. Are the drug companies to blame? What about the users? Later, on today’s Talking Point: making sense of Britain’s upset election.
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenPhoto: Defense Department health care beneficiaries makes prescription drug disposal easy for expired and unused medications with a "bring back" program at military treatment facilities. (U.S. Air Force)
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3 storiesWhite House spins Comey testimony
At his first news conference since James Comey’s testimony before a Senate Committee, President Trump repeated his tweet of early this morning, "no collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker." He also denied ever asking Comey for his loyalty. And the President said he’d testify under oath for Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel.
Read the story7 minWho’s to blame for the opioid crisis?
Overdose deaths from opioid painkillers are epidemic across the country. States and other localities are taking drug companies to court. Taxpayers are stuck with increased costs for public health, courtrooms, jails and coroners’ offices. The governments want compensation.
Read the story33 minWhat’s next for the UK, Theresa May, and Brexit?
Prime Minister Theresa May called early elections to increase her conservative majority in the British Parliament. Yesterday, voters reduced it instead. But British Prime Minister Theresa May wants to hold on to power. We’ll hear what Americans need to know beyond “the British Bernie Sanders” and Lord Buckethead.
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