GREED KILLS, GREED KILLED – May 6, 2021 – Before Richard Sackler—father of David Sackler, who’s married to Joss—became president…
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WATCH – MODERN DAY SOPRANOS – Watch on May 10 – Exploring the origins, extent, and fallout of one of…
INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY AS SIN – May 1, 2021 – Why is the trial in West Virginia? A year…
GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL FOR SALE — May 2, 2021 – Purdue Pharma’s sale of OxyContin, a formulation of the narcotic oxycodone that…
LIVING BODY SNATCHERS – April 20, 2021 – Members of the Sackler family who own bankrupt OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma LP…
MAKING MONEY BURYING OUR CHILDREN – April 16, 2021 – J&J in a statement called its marketing of the drugs…
WATCH – ADDICTION FOR PROFITS – March 25, 2021 – Purdue had allegedly paid doctors to write more opioid prescriptions,…
THREE WEEKS LATER IT HAPPENED AGAIN – April 14, 2021 – “Nobody wants their child’s life defined in one moment…
WATCH – HBO DOES IT AGAIN – April 7, 2021 – HBO Max has released a teaser for filmmaker Alex…
BOOK REVIEW – April 8, 2021 – In a 2017 email, Mortimer Sackler, son and namesake of one of the…
SUPER WEALTHY CON JOB? – March 16, 2021 – By Associated Press | March 16, 2021 at 11:53 AM EDT…
OVERDOSE OF GREED – March 18, 2021 – A Michigan pharmacist and pharmacy technician have been charged in a conspiracy…
UNCIVIL WAR – March 3, 2021 – Jenkins, who lives in upstate New York, says her mom, Sonya Hughey, had…
OXYMORONs – March 3, 2021 – According to Chesterfield Sheriff Karl Leonard, the alleged drug smugglers exploited a regulatory loophole…
WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR SOME – Feb. 25, 2021 – During the antebellum decades, addiction to rudimentary opiates such…
FROM LOSS COMES HOPE – Feb. 26, 2021 – “As overdose cases are rapidly increasing and treatments for substance use disorders…
WORTH LIVING – Feb. 25, 2021 – Most of the roughly 13 million in that group who have been prescribed…
FENTANYL FOREVER? – Feb. 18, 2021 – Fentanyl isn’t a new substance, having first been synthesized in a lab in…
SOON FOR BABIES TOO? – Feb. 18, 2021 – The Texas startup was founded in Houston in 2018, but is…
MORE BAD NEWS – Feb. 20. 2021 – Drug overdoses of all kinds killed nearly 84,000 people in the U.S.…
$ $ $ $ $ $ – February 12, 2021 – The deductions may deepen public anger toward companies prosecutors…
BIG PHARM COMPETITION FOILED – Feb. 12, 2021 – Federal, state and local law enforcement in Adams County announced on…
POISONED AMERICA c/o BIG PHARMA – 2020 – “I could not put down Gerald Posner’s Pharma, the definitive story of…
BOTTOM LINES KILL PEOPLE – Feb. 3, 2021 – McKinsey’s extensive work with Purdue included advising it to focus on…
THEM AND US – Jan. 19, 2021 – On May 23, 2019, the day my son was coming home…
OR MAKE YOU A DEADHEAD? – Jan. 22, 2021 – “If this keeps going the way it looks like…
WATCH – Shrinking from Responsibility – Jan. 14, 2021 – A federal prosecutor explained this case was different than other…
While we all gently weep – Jan. 16, 2021 – On Thursday, HHS officials did just that: physicians are no…
WATCH – OD Ideation? – Jan. 1, 2021 – That’s the grim, unfortunate reality of the drug, that Roy and…
Prisoner of greed – Jan. 2, 2021 – Li would later become known as a notoriously reckless supplier of lethal…