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Any of the actual people who made the decisions being pursued?  No?!  Didn't think so.
Again ? A settlement reached this year has them (along with two other US based distributors) currently paying $6 billion over the next 18 years to several states that sued them for their role in fueling the opioid epidemic.
Edit: $6 billion is their portion, the total shared among the three entities is $19 billion. >

Peanuts in comparison to the damage they have caused >

And the money they made >

Correct me if I am wrong here please. I work in this field but not in a way where I would know these answers. When these pharmaceutical companies get their quota of API it's approved by the DEA correct? All of this is regulated strictly. The government knows exactly how much API these companies are asking for and getting. How is it they get to play dumb in these sort cases? I understand the companies should pay the fines and such but it's all approved by the government. Or am I wildly off base here?
EDIT: API = Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient AKA your morphine sulfate, oxycodone hydrochloride, etc >

No, you're right. In the years 2014 through 2018, pharmaceutical companies overproduced Opioids, and did so in guidance with DEA quotas. In other words, the DEA knowingly overshot their estimates and therefore contributed to an abundance of opioids in those years. It's insane. >

And still the only people screwed over are those who need short or long term pain management. It's a disaster and why I hope to avoid serious injury. You will not get adequate assistance in this environment. >

Got in an awful awful car crash a few month ago it left me bedridden and unable to walk for 6 weeks got literally 2 days of pain killers lol. Mind you I was trying to avoid them since I’m a recovering addict that been clean for 6 years so I’m definitely glad I didn’t get more but still if I hadn’t been I would of been pretty fucking pissed lol >

I had a 4 inch tumor with spreading necrotizing flesh that even shocked the surgeon. They gave me Tylenol. Surprise! I ended up in the ER when the pain was so bad I couldn't manage it.  ER doctor even tried to accuse me of trying to score drugs until she went through my history and confirmed the now 7 INCH SPACE that my body was trying to adjust for through a scan. Thanks Big Pharma! >

Jesus Christ that’s awful. At least at the hospital they didn’t hesitate to give me pain killers when I asked, they just sent me home with barely any >

I had minor surgery 7 years ago and they sent me home with a ridiculous amount of opioids that I did not want to take (about enough to be high as a kite for a week) When I complained that the wound was not healing right they ignored me, saying it was only hurting because I wouldn’t take the opioids. This led to 5 more surgeries to correct the first one. >

Yikes dude that sucks, I had a surgery for a really bad leg break when I was a teen and was on opiate for around 6 weeks started a really bad point in my life that led to a 10 year opiate addiction been clean 6 years though minus two days on pain killers after the accident So I’m glad things didn’t go down that path for you.
But from what went on then it’s totally understandable why I was glad I didn’t get that many painkiller when i got in that car accident a few months ago >

I can see why you’d get opioids for a bad leg break but my surgery would have been no more than uncomfortable had it gone well. Giving me as many painkillers as someone in a car accident was just crazy. >

For the past 20 years, the feds have been making it harder and harder to get pharmaceutical opioids. Over the same period, deaths from opioids have increased because buying non-pharmaceutical opioids means you don’t know what strength or purity you’re buying. This is more of the same idiocy and will lead to more needless pain, suffering, and death. 
If you want to help addicts and patients, then help addicts and patients. Cutting off all access to relatively safer drugs produced in known doses and quantities isn’t helping anybody. >


If you want to help addicts and patients, then help addicts and patients.

But that would mean helping addicts and patients.