Did you know that pharmaceutical companies paid doctors to prescribe opioids, creating a heroin epidemic, and made billions of dollars doing it?
Did you know that pharmaceutical companies paid doctors to prescribe opioids, creating a heroin epidemic, and made billions of dollars doing it?
It goes much deeper. There’s better links but this was the only one I could find right now cuz it’s super past my bedtime
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-opioid-epidemic-who-is-to-blame-60-minutes/
The bigger problem is drug prohibition. Most of the heroin addictions were “caused by” doctors cutting patients off clean pharmas. It’s a story you hear over and over.
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yep, it should also be a “clean pharma”
And then we need socialism to take care of the material (and spiritual or “spiritual” if you prefer) conditions, a la the rat park studies.
I think it goes all the way to US government control of opioid production in Afghanistan. Much like they did in Vietnam/Laos/cambodia/etc.
They give specific companies license to import opium. They control it from the top. They are the world’s drug dealer. Then they use prohibition, control, distribution, legalization, etc to carry out certain objectives like destroying working class communities, imprisoning certain populations for forced labor, allowing certain well connected corporations or families (sacklers) to become rich, etc etc.
It’s deep for sure. I’m not a conspiracy theorist but if the US government isn’t exposed as controlling the drug market once it falls, i will be pretty surprised. Many incentives line up on their own, but some seem to only line up when actively arranged in certain ways. Iran contra, air america, etc. it comes out once in a while but the whole operation never gets covered widely enough to bring down those who control it.
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