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The Center for Strategic and International Stupefacients…

… boasts on its board one of America’s most notorious opioid distributors: John Hammergren. As CEO of McKesson, he has flooded West Virginia and similar defenseless states with so many opioids that over the last ten years, while helping to destroy the lives of thousands of Americans, he has brought home seven hundred million dollars in personal compensation.

As Alfred North Whitehead reminds us, “No one who achieves success does so without the help of others.” Thanks, citizens of Kermit!

It must give the scholars at CSIS a warm feeling to ponder this major source of their funding (Hammergren is also a big-time donor). UD thinks the CSIS leadership should visit Kermit and give every one of its corpses a big fat kiss.

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To make it all even prettier, Hammergren chairs a CSIS task force on family health!

While you’re enjoying 60 Minutes, and following today’s news about Tom Marino (currently suffering from withdrawal), remember that opioid-loving drug czars may come and go, but people like Hammergren, given respectability by seemingly respectable academic outfits like CSIS, go on forever, destroying entire towns and setting health care policy.

Margaret Soltan, October 17, 2017 9:44AM
Posted in: just plain gross

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3 Responses to “The Center for Strategic and International Stupefacients…”

  1. Bernard Carroll Says:

    And then there’s the Sackler family. That name graces any number of scientific and cultural bequests. Where did the money come from? Best not to ask.
    http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12775932/sackler-family-oxycontin/

    h/t Paul Thacker

  2. charlie Says:

    Ralph Nader said that GNP/GDP measures don’t mean much. Those numbers include profits derived from car crashes, prison building, and prescription medicine addictions. Someone is making massive profits from large swaths of USAAmerica turning into Skid Row…..

  3. dmf Says:

    https://theintercept.com/2017/10/17/google-search-drug-use-opioid-epidemic/

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