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Opioid Crisis

Various cities in West Virginia failed to prove that pain treatment standards approved by a nonprofit health care accrediting organization caused the “widespread societal ills and costs” associated with the opioid crisis, a federal court in the state ruled.

CHARLESTON, W. Va. — Various cities in West Virginia failed to prove that pain-treatment standards approved by a nonprofit health care accrediting organization caused the “widespread societal ills and costs” associated with the opioid crisis, a federal court in the state ruled

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