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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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Warren Olney

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Yael Even Or, Devan Schwartz, Evan George

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