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Physicians and Health Professionals for Responsible Opioid Prescribing

How the triplicate prescription requirements effected the rise of the opioid epidemic

A mystery that begins with the half-baked idea of an obscure California bureaucrat in the 1930’s and ends with one of the worst public crises in American history. Chicken Little said the sky was falling. And sometimes Chicken Little is right.

Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast discusses how Purdue and other opioid manufacturers used the triplicate prescription requirement in their strategy to market opioids.

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