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Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market

every day.

Today is April 12th, and this is the health care edition of the show.

I'm your host Christine Harjus, and I have health care specialist Todd Campbell

on the line, as usual, welcome to the show Todd.

Hi, Christine, how are you today?

I'm doing great.

The allergies are killing me a little bit, but that is springtime in DC.

I'm just going to say, you know, the winter is great for that but you know I'll suffer some

allergies if I can get some warmer weather absolutely give me sunshine and sniffles any

day perfect so for today's show we want to address a very important topic in the world of health care that I don't think we've ever really talked about at least not on a macro level and that is the opioid addiction crisis that's going on in this country right now.

There are so many Americans out there that have procedures every year that require some sort of pain

medication afterwards.

There are so many people out there that need chronic pain medication and a lot of this time

this comes in the form of opioids and there are all sorts of ramifications of that. They work great

but people can end up being very addicted to them and this is an issue that you guys

have likely seen in the news because it is becoming a more highlighted crisis,

but I think the issue also largely isn't even talked about enough.

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