Unheeded Warnings And Aggressive Marketing: In Australia’s Ballooning Opioid Epidemic Advocates See Echoes Of America’s Crisis

Like in the United States, many health experts' warnings fell on deaf ears in the Australian government. Now the country is facing a similar epidemic to America's. "I was screaming from the mountaintops after Jon died and I'd started doing my research. And it was like I'm screaming and nobody wants to hear me," says Jasmin Raggam, whose brother Jon died in 2014, a sentiment that sounds all too familiar to many caught in the U.S. crisis. In other news on the epidemic: fentanyl, fraud, DEA's footprints, and more.

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