Attorney General Mike DeWine said the companies created a deadly mess in Ohio that they now need to pay to clean up.
"This lawsuit is about justice, it's about fairness, it's about what is right," DeWine said in announcing the complaint filed in Ross County, a southern Ohio community slammed by fatal drug overdoses from opioid painkillers and heroin.
A record 3,050 Ohioans died from drug overdoses in 2015, a figure expected to jump sharply once 2016 figures are tallied.
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This is new? They could've asked me ten years ago.
There was not a heroin problem in the US until the FDA stopped the unfettered access to opioid prescriptions. I hate to join the ranks of some of the tin foil hat wearing conspiracy folks commenting on here, but it seems that the prescription pills were driving the demand and cost of heroin to levels so low that the producers and suppliers were forced to change the rules in order to make their product profitable again. It is similar to situation with crude oil. The US drills/fracks for oil because the price per barrel is high and OPEC increase production to lower the price and make US production not cost effective.
1:09 simple supply and demand. User gets hooked on their prescription medication. Prescription runs out. They can't function without it, well guess whats much cheaper? Heroin. And there you have your heroin addict.
These pharmaceutical companies make far too much money and have far too much $wing in the government to let a less dangerous and more effective pain solution, marijuana for example, come in and steal their profits.
Huge drug operation in Maryland land ONLY 152 pain pills. proof dr are NOT writing unless the person absolutely needs it. However this same bust land a KILO of uncut Cocaine. For some reason the cocaine barely made news. Folks Cocaine will numb pain just like heroin and it's back.... Cocaine will destroy and it's being ignored because money is pouring from the govt for opiate rehabs and EVERYONE is at the spicket.
The local pain center wanted to prescribe my elderly (over 80) parent over 12 gabapentin pills a day because he didn't want to give him any real pain meds. I wonder what 12 pills a day, 7 days a week, for a year will do to your body? That is 4380 pills a year.
Seems like the pain center is more concerned about his license than his patients well being.
In My Opinion.
The US Military and Intelligence Agencies are the drug smugglers.
The big Wall Street banks are the money launderers.
Get real about this topic and educate yourself.
There is a very real conspiracy against the People and the US Government is neck deep in it.
Same experience here 10:16. That crap does not work. They are so afraid to do their job, the doctors are keeping their patients suffering. Please you doctors out there listen to your patients.
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