Blog: Opioid epidemic - The pain persists
A Sunday Times investigation recently revealed Britain is in danger of replicating the painkiller epidemic that has ravaged the US — particularly in the north, where the drugs are prescribed four times more than in London. Dorothy Flower, partner, and Emma Kislingbury, associate at RPC, explore how this might impact pharmaceutical companies, medical practitioners, healthcare providers, and their insurers.
‘Epidemic’, ‘crisis’, ‘timebomb’; these are, unfortunately, all too familiar terms used to describe the impact opioids - a class of drugs that include the illegal drug heroin, synthetic opioids such
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