Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug

How opioid painkillers became an epidemic

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It's a terrifying fact: More than 47,000 people in America died of drug overdoses in what's been widely called an epidemic.
But the biggest killer of this epidemic isn't cocaine, meth, or even heroin — it's totally legal opioid painkillers

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