One of the few ways Donald Trump is actually helping people with health issues (multiple legislation failures don't count) was creating a committee to tackle the opioid epidemic. The problem is getting a lot of public awareness these days and I recently found a report that CBS Pharmacy is doing something about it.

https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2017.../23218713/

Basically CVS is trying to prevent people from getting pills for others like friends and family members or enough doses to get addicted during treatment. I love it.

In case you are not aware of the problem, the highest profile case of Vicodin addiction is probably Brett Favre in 1996. We certainly don't want more people getting it without written prescriptions (which he did) or being sent to a facility for 6 weeks to go through a withdrawal program. Many cases are much worse and result in more severe problems than the one they got the opioid pills for. I know enough about it to support what CVS is doing.

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