Art Van Zee was there at the beginning of America's 20-year-old opioid crisis. In fact, he may well have been the first to sound the alarm.
From the rural Appalachian towns hooked on pills, the crisis has moved to some of America's biggest cities, like Philadelphia and San Francisco.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who is suing Purdue, says four out of five injecting opioid users started with pills.Recently released documents show that while Dr Van Zee was sounding the alarm, Purdue Pharmaceutical was ramping up sales with misleading claims of an addiction rate of 1 per cent.
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