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Pain relief Wisconsin: counties sue to get Big Pharma to pay for the opioid epidemic

Quoted: Dr. Aleksandra Zgierska, an assistant professor at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and expert in addiction medicine, believes that pharmaceutical companies misled doctors who prescribed the drugs. “The underlying messaging that clinicians and patients had been receiving was that opioids do not cause addiction in patients who are using it for pain,” she says. “And that opioids don’t have a ceiling dose, or upper limit, of dosing.”