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Old 01-04-2016, 10:00 AM
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A Must Read

Just finished reading an article in Newsweek that I'd like to share. It amplifies something Vale posted a while back regarding the confluence of prescription opioids and heroin.

http://www.newsweek.com/2016/01/08/b...es-408354.html

One observation I'd like to make: in 2010, Purdue Pharma had $3.1 billion in sales off OxyContin. To give you an idea how ginormous that figure is, the sales of OxyContin alone is approximately equal to 60% of my company's total annual sales (we're a major DoD contractor). Think about that: $3,100,000,000 in sales off one product. This makes my skin crawl...
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