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    What is in America’s Medicine Cabinet? Everything.

    By Stephen Wood There were 240 million opioid prescriptions in the U.S. in 2016, a number that accounts for about 30 percent of the world’s opioid prescriptions, and is enough for one opioid prescription for every adult American. Experts believe the overprescribing of opioids is at least somewhat responsible for the current opioid crisis. This…

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