The distributor giants at the heart of the opioid crisis in the US | World News, The Indian Express

The distributor giants at the heart of the opioid crisis in the US | World News, The Indian Express

By New York Times |Published: April 22, 2019 5:34:29 pm

The distributor giants at the heart of the opioid crisis in the US

In the two decades since OxyContin was introduced in 1996, there have been nearly 218,000 overdose deaths related to prescription opioids.

The headquarters of McKesson Corporation, the drug distributing giant, in San Francisco, April 5, 2019. (Source: Anastasiia Sapon/The New York Times)

By Danny Hakim, William K. Rashbaum and Roni Caryn Rabin