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THE CURSE OF NARCOTISM IN AMERICA - A REVEILLE

Elizabeth Tanaka

A reveille (pronounced REV-uh-lee) is a call to wake up - typically a bugle call in recent American military history.

This piece (also linked within Beardsley) could be considered antiquanted (quaint) and amusing, if it were not for the very serious drug/opiate problem that America continues to struggle with.  If you updated the language, this testimony would match up well against current protests made against opiate manufacturers.  See, e.g., Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charges for Opioid Sales (behind a paywall, but the article is also available to you free on Lexis); Insys Therapeutics Agrees to Enter into $225 Million Global Resolution of Criminal and Civil Investigations.

THE CURSE OF NARCOTISM IN AMERICA - A REVEILLE

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