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Emerging Legal Responses to Curb the Opioid Epidemic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

James G. Hodge Jr. ,
Sarah A. Wetter  and
Sarah A. Noe
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 45 , Issue 3: Symposium - Controversies in Clinical Research Ethics , Fall 2017 , pp. 460 - 463
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2017

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