Steven Davis speaks with Carolina Arteaga and Victoria Barone about the US opioid epidemic; specifically Purdue Pharma’s marketing strategy, its influence on physicians, and policy factors as drivers of the epidemic. They also considered economic consequences, the odd character of how the media covered the epidemic, the (slow) response of most politicians to a mounting tragedy, and how – over time – the opioid epidemic and its fallout drove a major political realignment in the United States.
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