Tag: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Champion of Painkillers
Overdoses caused by narcotics painkillers now kill nearly 15,000 people a year — more than heroin and cocaine combined. But the pills continue to have a champion in the American Pain Foundation, which describes itself as the U.S.’s largest advocacy group for pain patients. Its message: The risk of addiction is overblown, and the drugs are underused. What the nonprofit doesn’t highlight is the money behind that message.