Pharma exec gets a mere 66 months in prison for bribing doctors to overprescribe deadly, habit-forming opioids
One of the worst drug epidemics in the history of America was caused not by small-time dealers and local pushers selling illegal substances on street corners, but by licensed physicians and primary care providers.
Opioids have killed as many or more people in the 2000s as crack and heroin did in the 1970s and 1980s, and in fact, the epidemic of death continues to this day — though the Trump administration is finally making some progress to combat it.
As The National Sentinel reported this month, after 30 years of escalating deaths from opioid overdoses, the numbers are finally falling for the first time. In all, total drug overdoses from opioids have declined about 5 percent from a year ago, the first such decline since 1990.
But there is much more to be done, of course, and that includes holding those who created this hellish nightmare responsible.
Alas, our warped system of justice — such as it is — may not be up to the task.
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