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respiratory

The casual stigmatisation of opioid use is lazy journalism

By Michael Vagg

2 Aug 2016

I was a bit annoyed by this article that appeared on The Age website and was retweeted widely. The title – Opioid addiction: Treatments get people off painkillers, but it is a hard road – suggests the story is about prescription opioid addiction. The body of the piece then sets out the familiar narrative (to ...

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