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Drug firms poured 780 million painkillers into WV amid rise of overdoses

 

In six years, drug wholesalers showered the state with 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills, while 1,728 West Virginians fatally overdosed on those two painkillers

 

The unfettered shipments amount to 433 pain pills for every man, woman and child in West Virginia.

 

“These numbers will shake even the most cynical observer,” said former Delegate Don Perdue, D-Wayne, a retired pharmacist who finished his term earlier this month. “Distributors have fed their greed on human frailties and to criminal effect. There is no excuse and should be no forgiveness.”

 

“It starts with the doctor writing, the pharmacist filling and the wholesaler distributing. They're all three in bed together,” said Sam Suppa, a retired Charleston pharmacist who spent 60 years working at retail pharmacies in West Virginia. “The distributors knew what was going on. They just didn't care.”

 

As the fatalities mounted — hydrocodone and oxycodone overdose deaths increased 67 percent in West Virginia between 2007 and 2012 — the drug shippers' CEOs collected salaries and bonuses in the tens of millions of dollars. Their companies made billions. McKesson has grown into the fifth-largest corporation in America. The drug distributor's CEO was the nation's highest-paid executive in 2012, according to Forbes.

 

http://www.wvgazette...se-of-overdoses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Heroin now kills more people than guns: Drugs overdoses claimed 50,000 lives in the US last year 

• The number of heroin deaths rose 23% to 12,989, more than gun homicides
• Fentanyl - a synthetic opiate - claimed 16,000 lives, equivalent to 44 per day
• Heroin claimed the life of Hollywood actor Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2014 
• But the majority of those killed are ordinary people in smalltown America

 

http://www.dailymail...-deaths-US.html

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Fentanyl - everything you need to know

 

Fentanyl is a schedule two narcotic controlled substance, and is the most potent opiate available for medical or veterinary use. It’s an analgesic and an anesthetic, 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine, and 30 to 50 times stronger than heroin.

 

“So, when you think about it, it’s just an incredibly potent opioid,” DEA Special Agent Joe Moses explains. “It’s incredibly dangerous, because it’s potentially lethal at very low levels. Ingestion of doses as small as .25 micrograms can be fatal.”

 

“Fentanyl is just another cut — it’s a cutting agent that they use with the heroin,” says Undercover Officer Eric Smith (name changed), who works in Southern New Jersey. “It’s just another thing they can add to it that’s cheap and that brings the high up real fast. Sometimes the fentanyl can be too much, because these aren’t pharmacists mixing it up. When the mix isn’t right, that’s when people go down.”  

 

While there have been instances of domestic production of clandestine fentanyl, much of it is sourced from Mexico. Mexican cartels like the Sinaloa Cartel, New Generation Jalisco Cartel, Juarez Cartel, and Los Zetas help push the supply of manufactured fentanyl over the border. Mexico, just like domestic production labs, gets its precursor chemicals directly from China.  

 

 

 http://uproxx.com/li...need-to-know/3/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[AChartist]

great AJ show to archive on force innoculations.

 

vaccine insert says it causes type 1 diabetes and its loaded with dormant cancer viruses

they can turn on with stimuli,

all cancer is viruses.

the statist luciferians pump their children with it, temple of baal satanists worshiping

weird federali science false prophet. what a fluorided zombie genocide they keep

chanting for more.

 

the polio vaccine was probably a cia operation to condition them to take injections.

it was already dying off because it is a virus of finite halflife that mutates itself into something else.

every wonder why they never cured anything since polio?

 

the 800B vaccine injury mediation fund to indemnify pharmceutical clinton obama donors is funded by insurance premiums, obamacare.

its mediation to keep it out of courts and public record.

 

is explaining the gates - clinton news network technology is artificial mental illness, lying technology

the ignorant keep coming back for more

trump will probably defund cia NPR.

if a news company cant exist by free market competition in profitability of delivering evidence based reality, it cannot allowed to be funded by soros, or

how about Enron.

 

the good news is on Mar 15 obama debt ceiling "holiday" expiration, trump becomes line item spending dictator, the best thing is if they cant produce a budget.
the problem is trump has been paying down 80B debt a month and has ended obama 2.5T a year slave binge and will not exceed debt ceiling.

 

Headlines form breitbart today:

 

Politico 2009: Obama to ‘Replace’ Bush U.S.
Attorneys/Politico 2017: Trump to ‘Oust’ Obama
Appointees

 

 

Russian Ambassador ‘Had Lots of
Meetings’ with Clinton Campaign

Kremlin Spokesman Exposes
Democrats Fake Outrage Over Trump-Russian Connection

 

 

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Cherokee Nation Files Lawsuit Against Big Pharma Over Opioid Epidemic   

 

The suit names McKesson, Cardinal Health, and AmerisourceBergen, which together control 85% of prescription drug distribution in the United States. Walgreen’s and CVS are also included in the suit.        

 

The lawsuit alleges that in 2015, the companies pumped enough drugs into the Cherokee Nation to provide “every adult and child with 955 5mg pills.”    

 

(Meanwhile in West Virginia, In one county, AmerisouceBergen went from distributing 292,000 pills to 1.2 million pills in a single year. )       

 

 

  

 

http://www.zerohedge...opioid-epidemic

 

 

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U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's ability to keep addictive opioids off U.S. streets was derailed -- that according to Joe Rannazzisi, one of the most important whistleblowers ever interviewed by 60 Minutes. Rannazzisi ran the DEA's Office of Diversion Control, the division that regulates and investigates the pharmaceutical industry.

 

Now in a joint investigation by 60 Minutes and The Washington Post, Rannazzisi tells the inside story of how the opioid crisis was allowed to spread -- aided by Congress, lobbyists, and a drug distribution industry that shipped, almost unchecked, hundreds of millions of pills to rogue pharmacies and pain clinics providing the rocket fuel for a crisis that, over the last two decades, has claimed 200,000 lives.    

 

 

 

https://www.cbsnews....y-and-congress/

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The OxyContin Cartel: Billionaire Family 16th Richest in the U.S. 

 

The Sackler family have profited handsomely from the highly addictive painkiller, according to Forbes.  

 

The Sackler’s success hinged on Purdue Pharma convincing the medical community their drug was safe to prescribe for any and all pain, thanks to its “time-released” properties. In 1996, OxyContin was raking in $48 million. By 2002, OxyContin’s sales hit $1.5 billion.

 

Purdue targeted physicians, mostly in the South, Appalachia, and the Rust Belt, who liberally prescribed opioids. These were mostly primary care physicians who did not have training in pain management. Furthermore, Purdue had an advanced system of bonuses and incentives put in place for sales representatives. In 2001, Purdue paid out $40 million in incentive bonuses to its sales representatives.

 

Purdue sales representatives were coached extensively to lie about the drug's potential for addiction, claiming that addiction occurred in less than 1% of patients.

 

This statistical misrepresentation eventually cost Purdue Pharma $635 million in criminal fines, when in 2007 the company was forced to plead guilty to false marketing charges brought on by the Department of Justice. Sackler family members were never charged 

 

 https://www.thefix.c...ccording-forbes

 

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The Staggering Numbers Behind America's Opioid Epidemic 

 

Unless bold action is taken, the opioid epidemic is projected to claim nearly 500,000 lives over the next decade.  

 

Between 2012 and 2016, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio saw a combined 18,000 deaths related to opioid abuse.

 

Beginning in the 1980s, prescription opioids like oxycodone and hydrocodone were heavily marketed as a treatment for pain, and at the time, the risk of addiction to these substances was downplayed. Opioid prescriptions nearly tripled between 1991 and 2011. 

 

 

 

https://www.zerohedg...opioid-epidemic

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More than 50 medical professionals including 31 doctors are charged in illegal opioid distribution scheme involving 32 million pills across five states

 

60 people have been charged for their alleged roles in a massive illegal opioid distribution scheme spanning five states  

31 doctors, seven pharmacists and eight nurse practitioners were charged Wednesday 

Over 350,000 illegal prescriptions and 32 million pain pills were handed out   https://www.dailymai...-crackdown.html

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Oxycontin maker Purdue 'leveraged its financial ties' to the World Health Organization to influence its prescription guidelines on opioids  

 

Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the embattled manufacturer of Oxycontin, influenced the World Health Organization's guidelines on the use of opioids for its own benefit, according to a new congressional report. 

 

The WHO's 2011 manual and 2012 guidelines on opioids were influenced by people with financial connections to Purdue Pharma.

 

'We have come to believe that Purdue has leveraged its financial ties to successfully impact the content of the WHO's guidelines,' said Reps. Katherine Clark, a Massachusetts Democrat, and Hal Rogers, a Kentucky Republican, in a letter to the health arm of the United Nations. 

 

'As a result, the WHO is, in effect, promoting the chronic use of opioids,' the letter continued.   https://www.dailymai...guidelines.html