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Lee Camp
spoke with Mike Papantonio, one of the most famous American lawyers,
mostly known for holding big corporations accountable for their
actions.
Papantonio
made some incredible revelations, especially concerning the Opioid
epidemic in the United States and how big pharmaceutical companies
and distributors make huge profits from pills that lead big groups of
people in US cities become addicted to heroin:
The big
distributors are really the drug pushers. They will come to a town
like in West Virginia where there are 100,000 people and they will
sell three million pills over a period of about a year. So, 100,000
people buy three million pills.
They
have somebody who lives in that town, they have what they call a
distributor, a detailer living in that town. So, the detailer drives
by the pill mills and every morning sees these people lined up around
the pill mills, standing in their pajamas at 8 o'clock in the
morning, wait and get in to buy the pill.
The
Sally distributor who works for McKesson drives by that every day.
Sally then goes home and she sees these reports about overdoses in
her town. People dying from the drug problem in her town, she has a
responsibility to do something, but what she did was she kept quiet
about it, she covered it up. She kept selling pills until a town of
100,000 people are buying three million pills.
One
of them is an 80 milligram OxyContin. That is the equivalent of 24
Vicodin! They're telling the doctors, 'oh well, it's just fine to
give them two a day'. So, a person taking that 80 milligram opioid is
taking the equivalent of 48 Vicodin a day under that prescription.
In
seven days they're hooked. And once the pill mill closes down, the
only thing they can turn to is Fentanyl in heroin. So, that's why you
have all these overdoses.
The
industry knew exactly what was happening. They even had memos talking
about how that was happening, where this was going ahead.
And now,
we're dealing with the tale of the problem where people are hooked on
heroin because now they're backing out OxyContin and some of these
opioids. The only place these people who are physically addicted.
They don't want to buy it, their body will die if they don't have it,
so, they buy heroin.
She should go to jail.
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