Court Filings Say Corporations Fed Opioid Epidemic

Re:Court Filings Say Corporations Fed Opioid Epidemic by blodovnik on Friday July 19, 2019 @11:37PM (#20484048)

It's incredibly weird that there's a war on drugs at exactly the same times as the corporations legally feed and profit from an opioid drug epidemic.

Only in America could such a contradiction be possible.

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Re:Court Filings Say Corporations Fed Opioid Epidemic by ska on Friday July 19, 2019 @11:54PM (#20484106)

Almost like the “war on drugs” doesn’t have much to do with drugs ...

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Re:Court Filings Say Corporations Fed Opioid Epidemic by inflatableDodo on Saturday July 20, 2019 @12:36AM (#20484200)

“We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course, we did.”

- President Nixon’s domestic policy chief, John Ehrlichman, in a 1994 interview with Harpers magazine.

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Re:Court Filings Say Corporations Fed Opioid Epidemic by Gibbon1 on Saturday July 20, 2019 @01:41AM (#20484374)

More dark stuff. In the 1950's through the early 1970's drug companies were heavily in the business of pushing amphetamines on the public. Enormous amounts were prescribed. And abuse was rampant.

Ever notice how anti-drug propaganda describes the effects of 'marijuana dependency'? Yeah it's describing the effects of amphetamine dependency. I'm convinced attempting to shift the blame from legal amphetamines to street drugs was the other part of the drug war.

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Re:Court Filings Say Corporations Fed Opioid Epidemic by hyperpallium on Friday July 19, 2019 @11:42PM (#20484070)

inevitable in a plutocracy

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