You probably heard about it before you saw it. NPR and CNN were running stories about it once a week for a while. And then twice a week. For a period of time, it was all anyone could talk about: The Opioid Epidemic. People were getting addicted to powerful prescription painkillers. Those news stories went away after a while. And for much of the country, it tasted acutely similar to the Ebola scare. That is to say, it seemed like a lot of media attention was given to a problem that did not end up affecting anybody that strongly. But
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