Until we take aim at the corporate drug cartels, of which Schneider was as much a victim as his patients, and let informed, well-trained doctors prescribe rather than push pills, my wife will be visiting emergency rooms in search of a fix for pain that no one should have to bear.
Yet attempts to tackle these businesses' cartels, some of which are deeply entrenched, have until recently been few and far between.
The cartel of countries which hold about two-thirds of the world's oil reserves, would ultimately determine how far prices do fall although according to Brown, many leading producing nations believe prices should settle at about $40.
In the U.S. Westinghouse is suing RTZ and 29 other companies for $6 billion, on the grounds that they are running a price-fixing cartel in uranium of which RTZ is suspected of being the principal architect.
Unlike a private cartel -- hundreds of which have been prosecuted by the Justice Department since 1990, OPEC is comprised of governments that happen to set quotas for oil.
Mexico is in the midst of a battle against powerful drug cartels, the outcome of which will determine who controls the country's law enforcement, judicial and political institutions.
"Los Cabos is safe because it is under the rule of one drug cartel, the Sinaloa Federation," says Sylvia Longmire, author of "Cartel," which was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011.
It would also break the rules of a little-known cartel, the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), of which both China, Pakistan's pal, and America, India's friend, are members.
But the game changer an asset of levamisole of which cartel chemists will be fully aware is its ability to potentiate the action of cocaine in the body.
