OxyContin’s manufacturer and its billionaire owners gave millions of dollars to political candidates — who often held powerful positions — and organizations, but the opioid profiteers’ tentacles of influence reach much farther, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found.
The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, which is widely blamed for playing an essential role in starting the opioid epidemic, have given more than $1.3 million to U.S. candidates and another $1 million to political organizations since OxyContin’s creation, according to Center for Responsive Politics data, but that’s just the surface of how deep the pharmaceutical titans’ influence runs.
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Watch an episode of "Intervention". The Government stance on addicts is to be a textbook enabler. They turn a blind eye to huge drug smuggling operations like those at Mena airport, they turn a blind eye to doctors being bribed by opiod producers, then they give decades to street level dealers, who will be replaced by another the next day. So the opiod problem will continue and they will make money off of every level from the poppy fields right on down to keeping the private prisons full.
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