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Pro-painkiller echo chamber shaped policy amid drug epidemic

By MATTHEW PERRONE and BEN WIEDER For more than a decade, members of a little-known group called the Pain Care Forum have blanketed Washington with messages touting prescription painkillers’ vital…

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Pro-painkiller echo chamber shaped policy amid drug epidemic