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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Different Disorders?
Many of the differences in the experience of alcohol and heroin addiction are due to their respective status in the eyes of the law.
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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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Kids Learn About Drugs
Avoid arguments about the fairness/unfairness of our drug laws. They’ve never made much sense, and they distract from the real issues.
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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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Drugstore Cowboy
As soon as they were feeling better, the guys would gather in the lounge to swap stories of high-level burglaries and shoplifting expeditions on a grand scale.
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Truth Comes Out
Some people are surprised that someone could function at such a high level in public despite significant drug use, but that’s something addiction has been known for.
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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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Fentanyl Goes West
It’s Business 101, for illegal as well as legal enterprises.
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Opioids in India
The assumption is that to make sure pain control is adequate for cancer patients et al, we must make opioids widely available for a host of other conditions.
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