Posted on 01/22/2019 11:44:29 AM PST by Monrose72
The head of the Justice Department’s criminal division under President George W. Bush, Alice S. Fisher, blocked the DOJ from pursuing felony charges against executives of a Big Pharma company that’s widely blamed for triggering the opioid epidemic in the United States, according to a bombshell report by the New York Times. Since leaving her government roles, Fisher has since joined a private law firm and successfully defends pharmaceutical companies against federal investigations.
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Just one more permutation of Bush’s Compassionate Conservatism. I mean, how compassionate would it be to send those poor people to jail???
Will any of the Open Borders Democrats be charged with their rolls in the opioid crisis? Nancy and her drug running from the south.
Big Government and Big Pharma are and. have been in cahoots. Many government employees, even congressmen, senators, leave office and become “consultants” for Big Pharma companies who pay them hugely for ignoring the dangers of prescription drugs while in office. Both Repubs and Dems.
It seems the Pharma Industry never had a better friend than W. They even got immunity from vaccine liability from him.
That being said, the Slimes article appears to be an attempt to shift blame for the opioid epidemic from open borders to Republicans.
Sackler’s push the poison, and the antidote.
Big Government and some Big Pharma are and have been in cahoots for decades.
Many companies pared down their expensive research funds and spent millions if not billions to buy out $inators like Ted Kennedy for behind the door negotiations with FDA.
Then, those companies reduced their research staff and other people who had worked with current drugs to make them safer to use and to expand the indications.
It was cheaper to buy out Ted and other congressits than to do research and find new ways to use established drugs.
When Ted died and similar Congressional thugs, many of those companies closed their doors and let more evil thugs take them over.
It all started when we got involved in Afghanistan.
I was watching “Air America” the other day and it did set me to thinking.
That would be tantamount to imprisoning firearm manufacturers top management for abuse of their product. Are the executives of drug companies forcing their product on anyone?
I don't know. Ask your doctor if Big Pharma is right for you.
The FDA and Big Pharma together form a revolving door: Approve a new drug; six months later veep for that company.
It is safe to assume every Alphabet bureaucracy is steeped in bribery and... collusion.
I have been on (and off of) a number of heart medications over the past eight years or so, all of which were prescribed by my cardiologist. With rare exceptions, none of them would exist if "Big Pharma" had not invested in research and waded through the regulatory mire to get them approved. Should we begrudge them a profit?
Now if they knowingly suppress a substance or procedure that would be effective but render one of their products unnecessary (example: chelation therapy to remove plaque from arteries, so no need for statins, of which they sell megatons), that would need to be addressed. But if there is little or no profit to be made, why bother?
Not at all. My reply to you was more of a flippant riff on that "ask your doctor" lawyer line that seems to appear in all the pharma commercials on TV. Just making a joke. As a normal red-blooded American, I believe any company is entitled to any profit they can fairly wrangle after going through the struggles of developing a product.
I do know, however, that there's a weird symbiotic relationship between pharma and doctors. Total anecdote time, but my cousin's ex wife was a pharma salesperson early on in her professional life. 1,000% of her job involved schmoozing doctors, directly, to get them - eventually - to "think about" prescribing her products where applicable. Doctors who played ball got the rockstar treatment.
I can totally see how doctors who liked that rockstar treatment would over-prescribe to continue getting it. Human nature, yes?
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