Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to StopThe disturbing connection between well meaning physicians and the prescription drug epidemic. Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the United States alone, 16,000 people die each year as a result of prescription opioid overdose. But perhaps the most frightening aspect of the prescription drug epidemic is that it's built on