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The criminal violations included conspiring to defraud US officials and pay illegal kickbacks to both doctors and an electronic healthcare records vendor called Practice Fusion, all to help keep opioid prescriptions flowing.
They were actually paying kickbacks to doctors to prescribe that stuff.
The criminal violations included conspiring to defraud US officials and pay illegal kickbacks to both doctors and an electronic healthcare records vendor called Practice Fusion, all to help keep opioid prescriptions flowing.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/24/purdue-pharma-oxycontin-pleads-guilty-opioid-crisis
I'm not absolving the end users who get addicted, as they do have responsibility in it too,
deceptive marketing akin to saying cigarettes are good for your health.
Hircus saysI'm not absolving the end users who get addicted, as they do have responsibility in it too,
At first, OK. But later, it literally fucks with your brain, the mechanisms which motivate every action you make every day.
Eventually, you are literally a slave to it without free will.
The governments did fine him. Not all the money he made off the drugs, but at least some of it.
That's a start, right?
So are the people of p.net who think the war on drugs should end and all drugs should be legal the same bunch of people who hate Sakler family or they are two different groups? It feels like there is a non-insignificant intersection between them.
Who thinks all drugs should be legal?
The legalization of pot, has not allowed anyone in any state to grow their own pot
There is likely some kind of liability, but it would require intricate forensic examination rather than wholesale demonization based on the deaths of end users. People will always seek these drugs and routinely die from them.
The Final Tally of Purdue Pharma's Crime Will Be Dwarfed By What Is Now In the Making
What caused the young reporter to collapse on live TV?
You can grow up to 12 plants for your own consumption in CA, iirc.
I believe the FDA and the DEA will come down on you. You can only grow if you're a licensed grower.
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