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  • A Cure Withheld

    BY RACHEL BUTLER In 2012, US health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid painkillers, enough to give a bottle of pills to every adult in the country, and that number is on the rise. Prescription medications now kill more people than cocaine and heroin combined. Illegal opioids like heroin are also cheaper and…