Did drug company payments to doctors help fuel the opioid epidemic?
by Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times
May 14, 2018
2 minutes
Health officials hoping to stem the opioid crisis might want to pay attention to what doctors eat for lunch.
A new research letter reports that doctors who received free meals and other kinds of payments from pharmaceutical companies tended to prescribe more opioid painkillers to their patients over the course of a year. Meanwhile, doctors
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