How a Shift in Health-Care Delivery and Big Pharma's Hunger for Profits Have Driven the Opioid Epidemic

I was walking past, and happened to see him behind the partially drawn curtain.

There he was, lying on the gurney, head back, mouth gaping. White, 25, covered in tattoos, not breathing, his lips a fine pale blue.

We ran into the room. The nurse pushed Narcan, a drug that reverses opiates. And 30 seconds later he woke up as if a switch had been flipped. Narcan is like magic; it literally raises people from the dead.

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