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Aggressive pharmaceutical advertising campaigns used strategies to sell opioids that mirrored those that were once used by the tobacco industry: involvement of specialists and leaders from the field of pain medicine, overemphasis by patients' advocacy groups on pharmacotherapy for chronic non-cancer pain, loose regulatory oversight, and the treatment of healthcare as a consumer good.
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