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The Opioid Crisis: The Drug Industry's Triumph over the DEA

Like nobody else ever died from drugs? Republicans care more about this than other drug crises.
 
...and by the way, Republican lawmakers (and Democrats, and Socialists) unanimously allowed the law to pass making it harder to restrict opioids

so "caring" is stretching it a bit
 
Well they care about that drug company $$$$ even more.
 
Amid fallout, lawmakers scramble to repeal Marino's opioid law

This July, in U.S. Rep. Tom Marino’s Northeastern Pennsylvania district, 51 people overdosed on a bad batch of heroin over the course of 48 hours.

Lycoming and Tioga Counties, where the overdoses hit, are like so many other rural communities in the country: increasingly ravaged by an opioid addiction epidemic fueled by the overprescription of pain pills. In Wellsboro, Pa. — the Tioga County seat, in the middle of the Republican congressman’s district — overdose patients filled half of the 16 beds in the local emergency room.
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It's time to put some pharma CEOs in jail for long stretches. They are making Pablo Escobar look like a corner dime bag dealer.
 
What a delightfully weird story. Mainstream media reports on how government messed up and government scrambles to fix the problem.
 
It’s almost as if the best governance is not always less/smaller government and a less regulated (less fettered) market.

But I’m pretty sure that can’t be right.
 
Whoa. Are you suggesting that businesses in a capitalist economy are going to act in their own interest and not the public good, so we need government to regulate them and represent our interests?
 
It’s a slightly and fortunately fleetingly tempting thought...but then I’m reminded not to be a crazy commie liberal wingnut

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Well yeah. Because a commie liberal wingnut would point out that people are highly regulated in the name of LAW AND ORDER, yet the same people who claim corporations are people are against regulating corporations.
 
It’s so confusing. My religion tells me people are so depraved they need to be “saved”. But my politics tells me corporations are good and best if free and unfettered. And yet corporations are people. CRAZY!
 
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‘Drug Dealers in Lab Coats’

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...I was invited the other day to a gala honoring the C.E.O. of one of these pharma companies for his moral leadership. I wanted to throw up. Since 2000, more than 200,000 Americans have died from overdoses of prescription opioids — the consequence of a deliberate strategy to make money by ignoring public welfare.

Our pattern of opioid addiction points to a tragedy, driven by the greed of some of America’s leading companies and business executives, systematically manipulating doctors and patients and killing people on a scale that terrorists could never dream of.

There’s a lot of talk in the Trump administration about lifting regulations to free up the dynamism of corporations. Really? You want to see the consequences of unfettered pharma? Go visit a cemetery.
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Ok, I think it’s starting to make sense.

It’s only companies that produce pharmaceutical-grade opioids that need to be better scrutinized and reglated.

All them other corporations will do better in every way with less regulation.

Yea, that’s it.
 
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