The Dig: Racism, Class, and the Opioid Crisis
Jacobin Radio
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The Decade of the Brain
In 1996 perdue pharmaceuticals won FDA approval for oxycontin a drug They promised did not pose addiction risks because of its patented time-release formula. President Bush the first declared the 90s the decade of the brain This was on the heels of the human genome project and the belief at the federal level Was that this was an exciting time to monetize these discoveries.
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