US pressure group that pushed doctors to prescribe painkillers forced to close
- American Pain Society accused of being pawn of big pharma
- Group took nearly $1m from leading opioid manufacturers
A leading medical society, described by a US Senate report as a pawn of the pharmaceutical industry for its prominent role in pressuring doctors to prescribe opioids, is to shut down in the face of lawsuits blaming it for America’s worst drug epidemic.
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