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Brickbat: Just Walk It Off

Charles Oliver | 8.23.2018 4:00 AM


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Oregon officials are considering ending coverage of opioid painkillers for patients covered by Medicaid. Instead, those patients would be directed to massage therapists, chiropractors, and acupuncture specialists for their pain. Those currently receiving painkillers would be tapered off over a year.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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