"Our culture has gotten to a
culture of excess, where we're prescribing 259 million prescriptions for opioids
every year — that's one for every adult American. We are 5 percent of the
world's population, but 80 percent of the world's opioid prescriptions. There's a
bigger issue of culture that has to change."
— Dr. Leana Wen,
Baltimore's health commissioner, in an interview with The Daily Record.
That's why healthcare costs have gone through the roof. Legalized drug distribution.
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