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The Sackler family is our El Chapo, except the Sackler’s get to put their names on Harvard professorships and a Smithsonin museum.
Our health care system - and Bill Clinton - were so corrupt that they acted in the 1990s like there was new science suggesting Pharma-produced heroin wasn’t addictive.
The utter mediocrity of our experts is so clear. Change the name from ‘heroin’ to OxyContin and call it ‘pain management’ and everyone is just like ‘they aren’t drug dealing billionaires.’ Uh ok.
Richard Sackler even *sounds* like a drug dealer. 
If your 2020 agenda doesn’t include dealing with mass criminality by oligarchs you can take your family leave and bullshit STEM apprenticeships and just take a lobbying job.
One last point on power, race, and the drug war. The difference in racial framing on opioids today versus crack in the 1980s isn’t the race of the victims, it’s the race of the dealers.
I’m not against painkillers. People need them sometimes. I’m against corrupt people profiting from addiction. Rather than point the finger at the corruption we stop using painkillers when they are needed. Double bad!
"In its statement, Purdue Pharma said that federal officials in 2013 had reviewed the company’s performance under the five-year corporate integrity agreement and found it in complete compliance."
2013 was under the Obama WH. There's endless evidence Obama was a bad President.
2013 was under the Obama WH. There's endless evidence Obama was a bad President.
