Over a 40-year career, Philadelphia attorney Daniel Berger has obtained millions in settlements for investors and consumers hurt by a rogues’ gallery of corporate wrongdoers, from Exxon to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco. But when it comes to what America’s prescription drug makers have done to drive one of the ghastliest addiction crises in the country’s history, he confesses amazement.
“I used to think that there was nothing more reprehensible than what the tobacco industry did in suppressing what it knew about the adverse effects of an addictive and dangerous product,” says Berger.
“But I was wrong. The drug makers are worse than Big Tobacco.”
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 claims 90 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?
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Every mass shooter was on a prescription drug.
ReplyDeleteuntrue.
DeleteNo true surprise here. Those that have ($$$) can get away with anything. Those that don't, well become victim to those who can.
ReplyDeleteSick actually.
I was in a terrible accident years ago and was in great pain that kept me bed ridden for three months. I was taking Oxi as directed. When I stopped the Oxi I went thru severe withdraw. My friend who works trama at PRMC told me that is what "dope sickness" is. It took about two months to feel "normal" again.
ReplyDeletethe media and the politicians aren't going to kill the golden goose. they all make to much money off the drug companies and the poisons they spread through our communities!
ReplyDeleteSomething needs to be done!