This display focuses on the American opioid epidemic, specifically the role misinformation played in the widespread prescription and use of opioids like Oxycontin in the 90s and early 2000s. The misrepresentation, both accidental and malicious, of Porter and Jick’s 1980 letter to the editor led to a widespread belief in the safety and non-addictive nature of these drugs.

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