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Great story about a horrible topic.
I only wish the real journalists who put this story together had pushed another level to find any correlation between political campaign contributions at the state/federal level as protection for this quasi-legal crack house.
In a world of big data and easy accurate analysis there is simply no way these companies were unaware of the epic growth in addiction their product was fuelling.
Pleading ignorance and blaming physicians/pharmacists does not absolve them of their strategic level duty of care.
They need to be smashed like big tobacco.
A chart correlating the rise of opioid related overdoses/deaths with the massive increases in sales between 2007-2012:
30mg increased 600%
15mg increased 300%
10mg increased nearly 200%
The only difference between these pharma companies and Pablo Escobar is that Pablo didn't have political topcover in the USA.
http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-he...e-of-overdoses
I only wish the real journalists who put this story together had pushed another level to find any correlation between political campaign contributions at the state/federal level as protection for this quasi-legal crack house.
In a world of big data and easy accurate analysis there is simply no way these companies were unaware of the epic growth in addiction their product was fuelling.
Pleading ignorance and blaming physicians/pharmacists does not absolve them of their strategic level duty of care.
They need to be smashed like big tobacco.
A chart correlating the rise of opioid related overdoses/deaths with the massive increases in sales between 2007-2012:
30mg increased 600%
15mg increased 300%
10mg increased nearly 200%
The only difference between these pharma companies and Pablo Escobar is that Pablo didn't have political topcover in the USA.
http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-he...e-of-overdoses
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