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Letter: Opioid prescriptions aren't the problem
01102018 OPIOIDS
Doctors over-prescribing opioids did not cause our drug crisis. According to CDC data, nearly half of all overdoses don’t involve prescribed opioids at all. Among the remaining drug-related deaths in 2017, half involved illicit fentanyl and heroin.