Opioids, doctors and drug addiction

Hosted by Warren Olney Sep. 29, 2017 National

Medical advances should be driving America's average life expectancy up. But instead, it's going down. The cause is an epidemic of deadly overdoses, driven by doctors -- over-prescribing legal painkillers that make their patients addicted to drugs. We hear about prevention… and treatment.

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Credits

Host:
Warren Olney

Producers:
Yael Even Or, Devan Schwartz, Evan George