Pain, Killer

“There’s no single villain in this story. Our dangerous embrace of opioids was the result of the entire medical establishment — including governmental, nonprofit, and pharmaceutical organizations—searching for an answer to the problem of pain.” Slate’s Jeremy Samuel Faust explains how the medical establishment learned to love the dangerous drugs that killed Prince (and helped fuel a heroin epidemic).

+ John Oliver buys $15m in medical debt, then forgives it.

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