Sunday, November 5, 2017

"Worse Than Big Tobacco": How Big Pharma Fuels The Opioid Epidemic

From Zero Hedge:

Once again, an out-of-control industry is threatening public health on a mammoth scale..."


The U.S. prescription drug industry has opened a new frontier in public havoc, manipulating markets and deceptively marketing opioid drugs that are known to addict and even kill. It’s a national emergency that claims90 lives per day. Berger lays much of the blame at the feet of companies that have played every dirty trick imaginable to convince doctors to overprescribe medication that can transform fresh-faced teens and mild-mannered adults into zombified junkies.

So how have they gotten away with it?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-12/worse-big-tobacco-how-big-pharma-fuels-opioid-epidemic

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