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"Most" people think the guns with Glock and Colt stamped on them were made illegally. 🙄 Sure they do. You're spouting common knowledge as if it is some rare secret when the only people who think America is full of illegally produced weapons are 14 year old swedes during their first week on the Internet.
These people that you think are "most" Americans are probably less than 5% of the population, the same 5% you can convince that lavender oil can cure cancer or the the moon is fake or any other crazy thing that is completely ridiculous.
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. >

Any of the actual people who made the decisions being pursued?  No?!  Didn't think so. >

I really don’t like this I think Biden did a 180 on opioids. I thought he was going to put the power back in the doctor’s hands. To many chronic pain patients are suffering right now with no treatment. Zero. >

I have zero sympathy for big pharmaceutical distributors that made billions off of opiod sales.  However, this is just the DEA trying to shirk its own responsibility.
If prescribers are overprescribing opioids and/or pharmacies are diverting the prescriptions, the DEA should be the ones policing that.  If a company is filling valid prescriptions which were written by a prescriber with an active DEA license and sent to a pharmacy with an active DEA license then they should not be liable.  These companies are not providers or pharmacists.  For all they know, the prescriptions are legitimate even if they are suspicious.  And if they're not legitimate, it needs to be the DEA that detects it and takes action.
But what if they're not staffed for it?  The answer is that they are and have been since the late 80's.  But they're focusing most of their efforts on stupid things like cracking down on marijuana possession and busting small time dealers. >

They will be charged a fraction of the profits, allowed to keep millions if not billions, and all of our screwed up and dead loved ones can go fuck themselves.
-US Regulaters >

When do we get the checks after this is successful? >

Go after the pain management doctors too while they're at it. >

Go after the revolving door "rehabs" that encourage you to keep coming back, too. >

Yup! They get kickbacks from big pharma. >

“Kickbacks” is a nice, efficient way to reference  “necessitated by, initially funded by, promoted by, rewarded by and reliably compensated by via settlement-based demand for services. 
A neat little money washing machine. >

Cool sue big pharma but what is being done for people who have suffered because of this, I’ve lost years of my life and dear friends to the opiate crisis. If this suit goes through the money should be put towards recovery and social services for addicts. >

That's like suing "big restaurant" because you got food poisoning at a burger place.  Dozens of companies exist to study cancer, fertility, genetic defects, etc. 
The specific ones responsible for opioid negligence are who they go after. It takes time. Doesn't happen overnight >

The opioid epidemic wasn’t caused just by the manufacturers, doctors caused it as well. >

Capitalism in a nut shell: companies rake profits, destroy lives, and pick up part of the tab later at their convenience, at great cost to tax payers. >

DOJ found dead of suicide. >

"You lobbied the wrong politicians and judges, motherfuckers!"
-DOJ, probably. >

Wow. AmerisourceBergen was one of my very first jobs. Wild to see this, but not unexpected. >

They bought out my former employer - HD Smith - for $800 million - HD Smith was #4 in the industry - ABC is a big fish in the sea. Hard to imagine anything substantial will happen to them. >

So when are all the doctors getting sued? >

Seems kinda shaky to me. ABC (a logistics provider essentially) is responsible for investigating pharmacies they think are overprescribing?  Is fedex responsible for people shipping fraudulent goods? >

"...accusing the pharmaceutical giant of helping fuel the opioid epidemic by allegedly repeatedly failing to report suspicious orders of opioids for nearly a decade."
This is about a specific law they were breaking. >

Why is the government so afraid of ACTUALLY taking down these scumbags. They did with big tobacco. >

It's like guns. People assume all these things are brought into the US illegally or sold in stores illegally. Truth is that it's mostly been entirely legal and extremely profitable for pharmaceuticals and gun manufacturers to sell products that create human misery in whatever quantity they want. And instead of them being held accountable it's always the street dealer selling their product or the user that faces consequences >

Who assumes that about guns? The US is the largest market for guns in the whole world, with dozens of domestic producers. Sounds like you just made something up to provide a comparison. Maybe a couple hundreds of idiots but the general public doesn't assume guns in gun stores are smuggled from Mexico. >

Most people don't realize that nearly every gun used in a crime was legally produced and sold by it's manufacture or reseller when its first sold to the general public.
America has a serious problem with companies that produce things that are too often used to commit crime or cause harm. I'd place big pharma, health insurance providers, and gun manufacturers in that category of companies designed to profit from things that too often just make people's lives worse