West Virginia has been the hardest hit.
The proximate responsibility for this grotesque overprescription of opioid painkillers lies with West Virginia’s doctors. But no conscientious wholesaler could look at how many painkillers they were shipping to low-population areas of the state — and at how many people were dying from overdoses in those areas — and not realize that they were enabling a deadly epidemic.
Bernie’s calling for an investigation.
But it’s good. It’s all good. The worst of the wholesalers – McKesson – has a CEO who sits on the distinguished board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, shaping the political thinking of America’s best and brightest. The same man will soon be lecturing us on health care policy. Arizona State University has bestowed its Executive of the Year award on him.
All of this cuz, you know, he made sooooooo much money.
What’s his corporation’s secret? Here ’tis:
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Yes, sadly, addicts die. You just advertise for more.
December 22nd, 2016 at 10:50PM
My SIL and I went to work out at a Huntington Beach,CA YMCA a few weeks back. (The city is in the OC) He pointed out the people who were on the “gear,” or steroids, several of them over the age of 50. Muscle junkies who never grew up. Opioids for the poor, synthetic steroids for the rich, pharma has achieved excellent market segmentation….