Big Tobacco didn’t pay a dime in the settlement. The hopelessly hooked nicotine addicts footed the entire bill. The day the master settlement went into effect the cost of a pack of Marlboros increased 80 cents.
Decades of problems with prescribed benzodiazapenes too. Does the CDC do anything right?
The doctors were passing them out like candy...It’s all about deep pockets.
Legal fentanyl is used by all the hospitals for every operation given.
All those drugs were approved by the government.
Why should anybody be punished by selling legal substance?
Moreover: The Obamacare introduced hospital and doctor ratings, one of the main rating point was “how did they managed your pain?”
Since these drugs are the only ones which really control the pain, the doctors were in practice rated on how much OxyContin they prescribed.
Thant means, the biggest promoter of these painkillers was federal (Obama’s) government!
Many prescription opioid abusers got their opioids via state-licensed pill mill doctors.
How much are the pill mill doctors paying state governments for their license abuse?
How many states were negligent in supervising their pill mill doctors?
The manufacturers of a legal pain medicine should not have to pay for overuse caused by physicians and consumers. The manufactures were never charged with monitoring our medicine chests for abuse. Another example of the legalized plunder of legitimate businesses replacing personal responsibility.
Use or abuse of opioids or any other drug is a matter of CHOICE. Make bad choices, get bad results.