Doctors and pharmaceutical companies indirectly helped create the abuse of the prescription drug OxyContin by

A) claiming that it had magical properties beyond the killing of pain.
B) making the drug expensive and hard to get.
C) sometimes abusing the drug themselves.
D) responding to urgent and prevalent complaints to better deal with patients' pain.

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Sunidhi Sobti · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : D, Explanation :  Doctors and pharmaceutical companies responded to urgent and prevalent complaints to better deal with patients' pain by creating and marketing OxyContin as a highly effective painkiller. However, they did not fully consider the potential for abuse and addiction. This ultimately contributed to the opioid crisis in the United States.

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