Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190516:12:30:00
To be treated, they treated it. the outliars were prescribing more than they should knowingly. the vast majority of doctors, this caught us by surprise. >> there's one other thing that seems to have caught people by surprise and the way this epidemic has hit women specifically. can you go into that a bit? >> yeah, 20 years ago the numbers were dramatically different. it was a male dominated epidemic. those numbers have shifted now 400 times increase in women being addicted. >> 4,001,234. >> yes. now we see that with fentanyl, surprisingly, that sumner is changing. so more men than women. i thi...