It is crazy public policy to make a relatively safe drug illegal, while simultaneously allowing Pharma to legally push an extremely deadly one.
Reding connects the dots between the growth of the meth epidemic and the economic realities brought about through the combination of Big Ag, Big Pharma, globalization, illegal immigration, and the low-paying no-benefit scraps left behind.
It might be illegal and it would certainly outrage Big Pharma, whose lawyers would fight it.
Everett accuses Purdue Pharma of ignoring the devastating illegal sales of its drugs.
Here's how much the top Big Pharma companies were fined for the exact same illegal practices for which most pleaded guilty.
Plenty of attention is given to the issue of over-prescription of big pharma products, and there has been no shortage of publicity about illegal drugs, but the debates around them are completely different conversations.
Until recently, paying bribes to doctors to prescribe their drugs was commonplace at big pharmas, although the practice is now generally frowned upon and illegal in many places.
Of course, unlike its illegal cousin, Europe's secondary market does not hurt the poor, but hits big pharma in the pocket.
In some cases, Purdue Pharma's marketing verged on the sinister and even crossed into the illegal.
