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The Public and the Opioid-Abuse Epidemic A majority of the U.S. public considers addiction to prescription pain medication a major problem but does not deem it a national emergency. And only about half of the public believes there’s a treatment for prescription-painkiller addiction that’s effective in the long term.
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