IMO, Fentanyl is most likely the biggest contributor to the 2015-2017 spike in that chart.
Yes, Mortimer held every one of those people down and forced and overdose into their systems.
Freedom of choice includes the freedom to make poor choices.
Drug warriors beware!
Mortimer Sackler killed nobody. The drug addicted idiots committed suicide.
Who killed who?
Hey, as long Uncle Sam / IRS gets their share from taxes, it’s all good. NY is just trying to get their share of the profits. Citizens be damned.
Stop being a government shill.
DEA pumped up drug pruction in 2012 by 40%. There has been no reduction in overdoses since DEA was founded. Prescription drugs are way down now over 30%. Suicides are way up.
It’s the heroin and fentanyl stupid.
http://www.jpands.org/vol23no1/lilly.pdf
It’s the DEA stupid. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/05/opioid-production-us-epidemic-drug-enforcement-administration