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Topic: Oxycodone

Members of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) and Truth Pharm staged a protest on September 12, 2019 outside Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, over their recent controversial opioid settlement. Participants dropped hundreds prescription bottles of OxyContin while holding tombstones with the names of opioids casualties and banners reading "Shame on Sackler" and "200 Dead Each Day". (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Biden quiet on opioid settlements

Aneri Pattani - KFF Health News
Scientists doing research on desktop PC in a laboratory. (Getty Images)

Pushing docs to prescribe opioids

Matthew Rozsa
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

How the DEA made the opioid crisis worse

Shira Tarlo
Patient with IV drip (Getty Images/iStock)

How opioid makers trick doctors

Dr. Gayle Woodson
(Shutterstock/science photo)

I wasn't born a drug dealer

Douglas Dodd, Matthew B. Cox
Black tar heroin (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

Big Pharma isn't helping

Robin Feldman - The Conversation
(AP/Mel Evans)

Samuel Banister, Axel Adams, Roy Gerona - The Conversation
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1913219p1.html'>Alex Malikov</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

White people problem

Laura Miller
The Orphan Drug Act is being investigated for abuses (AP)

Evelyn Nieves
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-363574p1.html'>Cupertino</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

My slide back to painkillers

Lorraine Berry
(iStockphoto)

Drug war fiasco: DEA boosted Oxy

Guy Taylor
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