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Emerging Legal Threats to the Public's Health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

James G. Hodge Jr. ,
Sarah A. Wetter ,
Leila Barraza ,
Madeline Morcelle ,
Danielle Chronister ,
Alexandra Hess ,
Jennifer Piatt  and
Walter Johnson
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 46 , Issue 2: Law and the Opioid Crisis: An Inter-Disciplinary Examination , Summer 2018 , pp. 547 - 551
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