The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis
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Re: The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis
#2> The industry of addiction treatment is haphazardly regulated, poorly understood and expanding at a rapid clip, bringing in $35 billion a year.
Why not focus on the root company and family actually getting rich off selling the damned opioids (Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers, respectively)?
I don't understand how this company and family haven't been sued into the ground yet.
Re: The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis
#3> The industry of addiction treatment is haphazardly regulated, poorly understood and expanding at a rapid clip, bringing in $35 billion a year. Why not focus on the root company and family actually getting rich off selling the damned opioids (Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers, respectively)? I don't understand how this company and family haven't been sued into the ground yet.
Few people actually have the resources to pursue legal remedies and given the demographics of those affected by opioid addiction, I'm completely unsurprised.
Re: The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis
#4> The industry of addiction treatment is haphazardly regulated, poorly understood and expanding at a rapid clip, bringing in $35 billion a year. Why not focus on the root company and family actually getting rich off selling the damned opioids (Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers, respectively)? I don't understand how this company and family haven't been sued into the ground yet.
The family are all Democrats.
That isn't the sole reason, but if you compare the "shadowy financier" tone of many stories about right-of-center families to the stories about opioids, you'll see that the "shadowiness" component of the reporting suddenly disappears.
Re: The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis
#5> The industry of addiction treatment is haphazardly regulated, poorly understood and expanding at a rapid clip, bringing in $35 billion a year. Why not focus on the root company and family actually getting rich off selling the damned opioids (Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers, respectively)? I don't understand how this company and family haven't been sued into the ground yet.
Much has been written on the Sackler family this year, including the article below, but rest assured they are embedded deep in politics and popular culture behind the scenes. Not so easy to simply sue them out of business.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-tha...
Re: The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis
#6if we tried to stop them they would just send a gunboat up the river
Re: The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis
#7I cannot understand why the Government is not acting against the pharmas profiting from this crisis. And why people are not revolting. There is a clear nexus between pharmas and doctors. Something should be done.
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#8Paywalled.
Re: The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis
#9Heroin is a Schedule I (in the US) which means no medical benefit, and its a 20 year felony for distributing it. There is also the Federal Analogue Act, 21 U.S.C. § 813, which is supposed to group similar drugs in the same category. So, how do these companies get away with selling analogs of heroin? Shouldn't the people who work there and make money off these opioid drugs be arrested? Why haven't they?
Re: The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis
#10I cannot understand why the Government is not acting against the pharmas profiting from this crisis. And why people are not revolting. There is a clear nexus between pharmas and doctors. Something should be done.
The 0.1% unilaterally owns the government. Better than half of all laws are made for them. Where do you think the 0.1% stands on the opioid crisis? It doesn't touch them. It is a poverty-problem, not theirs.