• jj4211@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      I remember one time going in for a physical in the mid 2000s. I happen to have a pretty typical winter cough going on and he just casually wrote out a prescription for opioid cough syrup.

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        16 hours ago

        Yup. The opioid crisis was facilitated by doctors getting kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies for prescribing opioids.