I’m pissed. If you’re one of the 80-some people so far who’ve read my ‘novellita’ Blood in the Water (on Amazon - https://amzn.to/3liwiEv - or on this blog) , you know how I feel about Big Pharma. Particularly Purdue & the Sacklers, and their role in the opioid crisis that’s destroyed so many lives. Lives of friends and family. (Even my own setbacks, which I can’t directly attribute to the reckless and heartless marketing of OxyContin, were certainly at least exacerbated by the devastating dope culture Oxy helped create.) Then, for a brief moment last week—vindication! “Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty!” read the headlines. “$8.3 Billion in Fines!” Newspapers trumpeted prosecutors’ claims that the settlement would afford vast new resources to fight addiction, and that “past wrongs” are now redressed. Sounds great, right? Maybe a little lopsided, given the $15 billion in Oxy profits the Sacklers made, and the 400,000(!) Americans who lost their lives since 2000, b...
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