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Topic: Painkillers

Close-up of an elderly man pouring out a pill from a medicine bottle. (Getty Images/Jacob Wackerhausen)

Is a new painkiller too good to be true?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Two prescription bottles with pain pills spilling out of them (Getty Images)

When AI decides what pain meds you get

Andy Miller, Sam Whitehead - KFF Health News
A box of Narcan nasal spray (YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images)

NY docs must give naloxone with opioids

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
Tylenol, acetaminophen (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

The Tylenol shortage, explained

Matthew Rozsa
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Inside Purdue Pharma’s media playbook

David Armstrong - ProPublica
Patient with IV drip (Getty Images/iStock)

How opioid makers trick doctors

Dr. Gayle Woodson
Children walk by drug users passed out along a street in a South Bronx neighborhood which has the highest rate of heroin-involved overdose deaths in the city. (Getty/Spencer Platt)

Drug exec to profit off opioid treatment

Matthew Chapman - Alternet
Roseanne Barr and John Goodman in "Roseanne" (ABC/Adam Rose)

"Roseanne" bungles opioid addiction

Kevin Doyle

Trump doesn't announce new opioid funds

Charlie May
(Lars Klove for ProPublica)

pills can reduce empathy

Kali Holloway - Alternet
Prince (AP/Thibault Camus)

Prince and painkillers

Scott Timberg
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1075772p1.html'>Phattana Stock</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

America's painkiller nightmare

Erin Marie Daly
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-428887p1.html'>Vasilchenko Nikita</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Jenny Kutner

SHAUNACY FERRO - Popular Science
Retired FDA investigator Patrick Stone (Katie Hayes Luke for ProPublica)

Rob Garver, Charles Seife - ProPublica
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