I think this is an under-appreciated aspect of the opioids story. Although the crisis has now shifted geographically, with more urban deaths, for years this was a story of heavily rural casualties, facilitated by the cultural bribing of city dwellers.https://khn.org/morning-breakout/a-shifting-epidemic-rural-areas-were-ground-zero-of-opioid-crisis-but-cities-now-outpace-those-death-rates/ …
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This is another way in which we Americans were turned against each other in the run-up to Donald Trump. Big companies were out there killing rural Americans in droves, and many of the city dwellers with the platforms to poke in and interrupt it were cognitively bought off.
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I, for one, knew nothing about the Sacklers' role in opioids for years after the crisis began in the 1990s. But, growing up around Washington, D.C., I did know of Sackler museum wings and galleries. They purchased space in the ultimate safe room: a philanthropic reputation.
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I know we've been over this ground before, but I'm still not convinced "influential journalists, academics, and regulators" failed to investigate Sacklers bc they thought to them as an "art family." More bc Sacklers hid well behind Purdue. But their public giving was a liability.
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Yup, conversations with some of them have helped me -- but I'm sure there are different testimonies out there in a crisis so sweeping!
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The only means for profit growth in the healthcare industry is for society to remain sick.
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*sigh* Why are the millions of
#veterans,#chronicpain,#cancer and#sicklecell patients who need these meds to function constantly forgotten and pushed aside in this out of control#opioidhysteria?? If the pills were THAT ADDICTIVE, the majority of the country would be addicted -
It's more about genetics, socioeconomic factors and mental health issues than the substance.
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Love Anand and Hassan!!
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