On June 2, Sam Quinones, author of the book Dreamland, reported that:
The New England Journal of Medicine startled everyone this week by a posting a one-sentence warning over the so-called Porter & Jick letter to the editor that the journal published in January of 1980. The warning note reads: “For reasons of public health, readers should be aware that this letter has been `heavily and uncritically cited’ as evidence that addiction is rare with opioid therapy.”
For the full post, see Porter & Jick, Dreamland, and The New England Journal of Medicine