NOTE DATE OF SETTLEMENT: JAN 17 2017, only 2 days before Trump! They wanted to protect Obama DEA that was already protecting #Hezbollah !
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The opiod “Crisis” was engineered to destroy working-class and rural whites.
60 Minutes is following its usual black hat/white hat dichotomy of bad guys and good guys in a given situation. I’m not sure how much the pharmaceutical companies are at fault, but you really have to look at the recreational drug users who never were in pain, never had surgeries, never really needed it, but still went to great lengths to seek out and then abuse these substances. Almost every journalistic treatment of this subject almost immediately absolves the users. And that group (users) resolves down into a spectrum of groups, some of which deserve sympathy, others which do not. But for 60 Minutes, its the usual sinister corporation in the black hat.
Long before the government stepped in cigarettes were called coffin nails. Everybody knew they were bad for you.
There is no "opioid crisis", just the governments failed 40+ year war on drugs which have done more to destroy the Bill of Rights than any commie could dream possible.
Finally in a free country people are allowed to make their own decisions including killing themselves. Now we know the Feds don't give a rip about junkies offing themselves, else booze would be banned. This is just the latest iteration of the drug "crisis" which will eventually 1) allow the Feds to extort money from big pharma and 2) strip more of our freedoms.
pharmakeia
sorcery, witchcraft.
From pharmakeus; medication (”pharmacy”), i.e. (by extension) magic (literally or figuratively) — sorcery, witchcraft.
see GREEK pharmakeus