Between January 2010 and May 2018, someone from the Purdue team visited “the candyman” 300 times. In the past eight years, have you seen even your best friend 300 times? Once the opioid epidemic was off and running, the epidemiologist Mathew Kiang calculated, the top 1 percent of doctors “accounted for 49 percent of all opioid doses.” People like “the candyman” and Michael Rhodes prescribed 1,000 times more opioid doses than the average doctor. Purdue fueled an epidemic that would end up consuming the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans based on the seduction of no more than a few
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