What You Need to Know About the U.S. Opioid Crisis
Opioids are a type of drug derived from alkaloid morphine, an incredibly addictive analgesic medicine derived from the opium poppy. Morphine is processed chemically to produce heroin and other synthetic opioids for medicinal and illegal recreational use. Pharmaceutical companies in the late 1990s began reassuring the medical community opioids were not as addictive and patients would not abuse the...
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