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bikeexpert  ·  1712 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ex-pharma chief charged with flooding Appalachian towns with opioids

"Federal prosecutors have charged a former president of a major pharmaceutical distributor with flooding parts of Appalachia with millions of opioid pills while ignoring evidence they were driving addiction and death."

It's all about the money.

From 1999 to 2017, 218,000 people died in the United States from overdoses related to prescription opioids, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... I guess nothing matters as long as you get paid and no member of your family or friends is involved (in consumption of opioids).





user-inactivated  ·  1712 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    It's all about the money.

I often worry that this problem, among many others, isn't the result of people valuing money so much as that they don't value their fellow man.