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Who's to blame for the opioid crisis?

Hosted by Warren Olney Jun. 09, 2017 National
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.

Photo: 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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White 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...

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Who’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...

33 min

What’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...

11 min

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Warren Olney

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Luke Vander Ploeg, Gideon Brower, Evan George

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