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dixiegrrrrl

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1. This is so misleading:

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Wed Mar 16, 2016, 10:44 AM

Mar 2016

"44 more Americans will die from prescription painkillers"

makes it sound as if the people who die are the patients who have been prescribed the meds, when in fact those pills have been diverted in some way to people who not the patient, usually stolen.

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This is so misleading: dixiegrrrrl Mar 2016 #1