Re:Sacklers–who made $11B off opioid crisis–to pay $225M in ...
by brandonmenc on Thursday October 22, 2020 @07:46PM
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> In 2018 ~130 people died every day in the US overdosing on opioids
Alcohol kills literally twice that number of people per day and is a factor in nearly half of all violent crime and is a quarter of a trillion dollar market, and yet we seem to fine with that trade-off even though it has absolutely ZERO therapeutic application.
> putting "crisis" in quotes like it's a manufactured epidemic
The epidemic might not be manufactured, but given the numbers re: alcohol the outrage certainly seems to be. It's a moral panic, imo.
Alcohol kills literally twice that number of people per day and is a factor in nearly half of all violent crime and is a quarter of a trillion dollar market, and yet we seem to fine with that trade-off even though it has absolutely ZERO therapeutic application.
> putting "crisis" in quotes like it's a manufactured epidemic
The epidemic might not be manufactured, but given the numbers re: alcohol the outrage certainly seems to be. It's a moral panic, imo.