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Iowa lawmakers debated budget bills into the early morning Friday as they aim for the end of session in the coming days. Though legislators spent much of their days in party caucus meetings Thursday, members of both the House and Senate moved through dozens of bills during debate, in addition to meetings of the chambers’ […] The post Iowa lawmakers debate until 2 a.m. in race to finish 2024 legislative session appeared first on Iowa Capital Dispatch.
The opioid crisis of the 21st-century was caused by pharmaceutical manufacturers lying about the addiction potential of its products. The most impactful and most well-known lying corporation was Purdue Pharma, which argued that OxyContin, created using their patented, extended-release morphine sulfate, had a less than 1% chance of addiction. Company…