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Are Pharmaceutical Companies to Blame for the Opioid Epidemic?
Recent lawsuits are asking courts whether the current crisis is comparable to the one over tobacco in the ’90s.
https://www.theatlantic.com/busines...suit-pharmaceutical-companies-opioids/529020/
Who Is Responsible for the Pain-Pill Epidemic?
https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/who-is-responsible-for-the-pain-pill-epidemic
Billionaire drug mogul is charged with racketeering and corruption after company he founded 'pushed powerful opioid-based painkiller spray to patients who didn't have cancer'
John Kapoor indicted in US-wide opioid conspiracy | Daily Mail Online
Opioid epidemic: Senate committee opens probe of five big painkiller makers
The investigation will explore whether pharmaceutical manufacturers — at the head of the opioids pipeline — have contributed to opioid over-utilization and over-prescription as overdose deaths in the last 15 years have approached nearly 200,000," said a press release announcing the probe.
The statement notes that in 2015 alone, more than 30,000 people died from overdoses of either prescription opioids or of heroin.
And since 1999, the release says, sales of prescription opioids have increased four-fold.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/28/senate-committee-opens-probe-of-five-big-opioid-makers.html
How Banks Launder Drug Money (And Then Give It To Politicians)
https://thebrokenelbow.com/2016/10/27/how-banks-launder-drug-money-and-then-give-it-to-politicians/
Banks Launder Billions of Illegal Cartel Money While Snubbing Legal Marijuana Businesses
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/avinash-tharoor/banks-cartel-money-laundering_b_4619464.html
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US Troops are Protecting Opium in Afghanistan. This video provides video and pictures of US troops protecting Opium field
In a new report, Addiction, Crime and Insurgency: The Transnational Threat of Afghan Opium, UNODC shows the devastating consequences that the 900 tons of opium and 375 tons of heroin that are trafficked from Afghanistan every year have on the health and security of countries along the Balkan and Eurasian drug routes, of countries in Europe, of China, India and the Russian Federation.
It documents how the world's deadliest drug has created a market worth $65 billion, catering to 15 million addicts, causing up to 100,000 deaths per year, spreading HIV at an unprecedented rate and, not least, funding criminal groups, insurgents and terrorists.
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/fron...veals-devastating-impact-of-afghan-opium.html
Meanwhile, I was charged and convicted with NO drugs at all...I got lucky afterwards and nailed the chief ( lost his sorryassed job) and staff Sargent...The guilty deausch who called the cops, stole enough money from the company we worked for to by 3 Tim Hortons in London Ontario...just as I was figuring out who he was.
It was like he claimed I was messing with Russians...when it was him...
