Doctors Were Paid to Prescribe Opioids

I'm issuing perhaps my most disturbing news about doctors ever.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Opioid addiction has been identified as a continuing, significant factor in overdose drug deaths

• According to the CDC, more than 42,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2016 — a 28% jump in opioid deaths from the year before. In 2020 and 2021 overdoses surged, before reaching record-level deaths just in the first half of 2021

• Resea…