State governments are leading the charge against opioid makers over their role in the epidemic. A team of researchers at Penn State examined just how much the crisis has cost them.
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Associate Professor | Program Director, Undergraduate Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Senior Lecturer of Midwifery, Anglia Ruskin University
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Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Associate Professor of Criminology, Edinburgh Napier University
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Eberly Fellow, Professor Education and Demography, and Director of the Center for Educational Disparities Research, Pennsylvania State University
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Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University
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Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Administration, Pennsylvania State University
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Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University
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Professor of Public Health Sciences and Psychiatry, Pennsylvania State University
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Managing Director of the Criminal Justice Research Center, Pennsylvania State University
