Why does the American society and the media not accept that their data on opiates is outdated? The opiate epidemic did not begin in 1996-1999 as they believe. Here is how I see it - after 25 years of research

Dear Selena at NPR and other media

I found your article ”The real cost of the opioid epidemic: An Estimated  $179 Billion In Just 1 year” real intesting. I have missed an overview like this. My PhD was at The Nordic School of Public Health and I feel quite familiar with the questions, how to calculate the different parameters

Do you have any comments on my tweets? For me, it is quite natural that the opiate Propoxyphene (DXP) started this terrible epidemic, Already in 1957. In the United States you are talking about the mid or late 1990s (1996 - 1999).

We have been researching and working with this material for 25 years. US authorities and the media do not want to realize the truth. Honestly, no researcher - neither in the US or any other country - has worked and published as much about an opiate as we are.

I believe that American society is embarrassed that two unknown Swedish researchers - who have published, among other things, 7 scientific articles and two doctoral dissertations - presented at Uppsala University (2000) and the Nordic School of Health (2001).

Why does American society and the media not accept that their data on opiates is outdated? The opiate epidemic did not begin in 1996-1999 as they believe, but when Propoxyphene (Darvon and Darvocet) began to be sold in the United States as early as 1957. We have reliable figures that show it.