Horrible consequences
We here in the USA have seen people put in prison for years for selling illegal drugs. What happens when executives who manufacture highly addictive drugs but downplay this side effect and the doctors who sold them like they were drug pushers knowing the devastation this would do to millions of victims because of addiction issues and their families?
The New York Times has done a report (below) that sheds a lot of light on this subject. It involves the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma which was represented by a defense team that included the adviser, Rudolph W. Giuliani, Of course there were no indictments.
As per the March Edition of the NIH website, “Every day, more than 115 people in the United States die after overdosing on opioids.1 The misuse of and addiction to opioids—including prescription pain relievers, heroin, and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl—is…
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