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Drug overdose deaths fall for 6 months straight as officials wonder what's working
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Gotta ask how many of those overdose pills were actually prescribed, rather than illicit from the start.
A lot of them. So many that there are class action lawsuits because of over-prescription. Make no mistake pharmaceutical companies are AT THE HEART of this epidemic.
Yes I do remember now about the Sacklers going unprosecuted. But I thought a lot was made in Asian labs and simply narco-trafficked. I wonder what the numbers were like.
This guy was one of the trafficking tycoons:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/06/asia/tse-chi-lop-sunblock-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
Edit: fixed some phone keyboard slips.
John Oliver did 4 stories on them. I highly recommend watching them. Youtube has them all for free.
One town in West Virginia was prescribed something crazy like a thousand per person (my number could be way off but it was a massive red flag for the feds).
Edit: The Sackler family is the owners behind it.
https://theweek.com/john-oliver/1003495/john-oliver-rages-against-the-sackler-family-and-their-bulls-t-looming
There were pharmacies refilling prescriptions indefinitely, including expired ones.
Or I knew of at least one pharmacy that was in my area. That helped keep the flow going. The prescription was just the first step.
Also people would hit a range of pharmacies on ome prescription.