At this point, it's not really ground-breaking news that America has a problem with opioid drugs. By way of anecdote, when I became a federal prosecutor in 2011, the last heroin case that had been prosecuted in the Nashville U.S. Attorney's office was in the early-1990s; although, to be fair, there were then lots of what we called "pill" cases involving opioids. When I left the office in 2017, at least half of the office's major investigations were directly related to opioids--some pills, but mostly outright heroin or fentanyl/carfentanyl . In Nashville, Tennessee, OxyContin (which ...
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