Behind the opioid epidemic, a system of greed and heedlessness
by Mary Sanchez, Tribune Content Agency
Sep 08, 2017
3 minutes
If you want to understand America's opioid epidemic, start with an autopsy.
Sarah Fuller died March 25, 2016. She was 32, suffering from chronic head and neck pain due to two car accidents. The cause of her death was allegedly an overdose of Subsys, a highly addictive spray medication developed to ease intense pain associated with cancer -- debilitating pain that other drugs can't relieve. It contains fentanyl, which
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