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How an Island in the Antipodes Became the World’s Leading Supplier of Licit Opioids

By: Peter Andrey Smith   |   Pacific Standard   |   July 2019
Pharmaceutical companies exploited a regulatory loophole that allowed for a decades-long boom in licit opioid production fueled by Tasmanian-grown poppies. Here's what the island can tell us—and why supply matters for solving the third wave of the overdose crisis.