Why is everyone blaming the manufacturers?
If there were not legitimate orders from legitimate pharmacies they would not have shipped them. They CANNOT ship without an order number.
If the pharmacy did not have legitimate prescriptions they would not have ordered the medicine. They CANNOT dispense without a valid prescription.
The problem here starts in the doctors office. If there is blame start with the abuser and the doctor.
These are not “legitimate” pharmacies. These are not “valid” prescriptions.
The manufacturers are shipping millions to distributers with no need except to fatten their profit margin.
While killing tens of thousands of Americans.
Legalized Dope Pushers. This is the bottom line.
There is an old Supreme Court case from the 1940s, which I remember from law school, called Direct Sales Co., in which a mail order pharmaceutical company sold tens of thousands of doses of morphine every month to a single doctor in a small town. The company was convicted of illegal distribution of narcotics, and the Court held that the quantity ordered was so obviously beyond anything a legitimate doctor could use that the company had to have known the pills were being diverted to illegal uses.
***The problem here starts in the doctors office. If there is blame start with the abuser and the doctor.***
Reminds me of the 1970s when some doctors offices had lines of people, out the door and around the corner waiting to get prescriptions for various “pills”.
Nothing says manufactures cann’t be complicit in plots to become illegal drug dealers....