ANti-Terrorist! Are we looking at the Wrong Terrorists?

[JackLuis]

According to the Centers for Disease Control, the number of overdose deaths involving opioids (including prescription drugs and heroin) has quadrupled since 1999. In 2015, opioid deaths in the United States hit a record-breaking 33,000.



The labor union is targeting the three largest U.S. prescription drug wholesalers — McKesson, Cardinal Health, and AmerisourceBergen — for flooding hard-hit areas with the highly addictive pills.

Between 2008 and 2012, for example, these companies shipped 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone opioid doses to West Virginia — 433 for every man, woman, and child in the state. During that time period, 1,728 people in the state overdosed on the painkillers.

ISIS has killed how many people in the US of A?

We'll 'bomb the shit out'a 'em', but leave the Pharma drug dealers alone?

Hell we don't need F-35s, some Super Hornets and PAVEWAY ($300,000) Bombs to round up a few hundred White Collar Terrorists. What the hell do we pay the DEA for? Running 'black ops in Colombia or keeping order in West 'By God' Virginia?

March 16, 2017
Going After the Opioid Profiteers

by Sarah Anderson

 

[sr71plt]

Can anyone seriously see the current administration going after the pharmaceutical industry in more than a throwaway line in a speech?

 

[Hard_Rom]

The doctors prescribing are the pushers. Hold them accountable. And there is the just plain illegal counterfeits smuggled in from China. China needs to do more to control the manufacture and distribution of the base ingredients.

But with part of the US Judicial system run as a for profit enterprise I'm sure that addicts can be just plain locked up for more money into corporate hands. Win/win for all the capitalist types, Big Pharma and the prison system.

 

[KingOrfeo]

The doctors prescribing are the pushers. Hold them accountable.

Why do they do it, I wonder? Pharma gets the money, not them.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Why do they do it, I wonder? Pharma gets the money, not them.

Doctors get money. It's a business like many others. I'm sure they markup prices. Big Pharma is the wholesaler. Docs are the retailers.