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How OxyContin Kicked Off the Heroin Epidemic
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The FDA was trying to make OxyContin safer. Instead, it accidentally launched a national crisis.
Tanya Basu
Senior Editor, Science
Published
Apr. 12 2018
5:17AM EDT
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