On the recordDecember 12, 2017
That is 2 percent of the $8.6 billion that the pharmaceutical industry makes selling just the prescribed opioid products, setting aside the illicit stuff that comes over the border.
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Whitehouse critiques the minimal funding compared to pharmaceutical profits amid the opioid crisis.
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