Perilous Prosecution
In one instance, a Corporate Compliance manager came right out and advised a pharmacist that his role was to drive sales for the company. Meaning to keep pushing opioids, above all.
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Is it Just Capitalism?
I think it was hard for most of us to accept that elements within business, industry, and even government were deliberately influencing Mike’s choice.
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Up to Their Old Tricks
…when push comes to shove– as it has for the Sackler family– they’re going to look hard for ways to replace the revenue they lost, and protect their personal fortunes.
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Painkillers, from Two Sides
Ethics never comes up. The job is to push product, and once sold, “we wash our hands of the whole thing.”
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The Ad Biz
Advertising is vulnerable to abuse. Rules are few and easy to circumvent.
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Opioids in International Relations
Voter perception and the fear of a public relations black eye is always a motivating factor in politics.
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Rogue Pharmacies
Don’t chains have quality control mechanisms to alert headquarters to abnormal patterns in prescription use?
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Walls and Fences
What we really need most are substantive changes on the demand side.
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Oh– as for Fentanyl…
…we’re often well behind the curve in terms of what’s actually happening in colleges and bars and on the streets around America.
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Politics and Drugs
And yet our legal system seems designed to punish the low level offender while protecting their counterparts in business and government.
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Politics and Drugs
And yet our legal system seems designed to punish the low level offender while protecting their counterparts in business and government.
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Fentanyl Goes West
It’s Business 101, for illegal as well as legal enterprises.
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Cheaters Do Get Caught…
These multi-billion dollar fines sound enormous, but like the one levied on Facebook, they represent a small portion of the company’s actual assets.
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