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FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. Overdoses don't happen just to heroin addicts _ patients who legally use strong painkillers called opioids are at risk in the nation’s epidemic, too. A new study says when patients were prescribed an overdose antidote along with those medications, they made fewer painkiller-related visits to the emergency room. The study released on June 27, 2016, went a step further _ to see if the take-home antidote idea also could work for patients with chronic pain who may not realize they could accidentally get into trouble with prescription painkillers such as Oxycontin, Vicodin and others. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File) (AP)

Why the Oxycontin family loves charters

Sarah Darer Littman - Alternet

Washington City Sues

Charlie May

Brendan Gauthier

The science of suffering

Robert Caudle - The Conversation

Martha Rosenberg - Alternet

Phillip Smith - Alternet
(<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
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America's painkiller nightmare

Erin Marie Daly
My sister Christin (left) and me in 2011

Marie Southard Ospina - Substance.com
The Orphan Drug Act is being investigated for abuses (AP)

Evelyn Nieves

Maia Svalavitz - The Fix
(Reuters/Cliff DesPeaux)

Steven Wishnia

Kristen Gwynne
A mountaintop removal mining site at Kayford Mountain, W.Va

Chris Hedges
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