Bipartisanship, my ass. It’s like Brett Kavanagh’s dream date: lip service with no money changing hands.
to approve research on non-addictive painkillers and for pharmaceutical companies to conduct that research.
Anybody want to bet this turns into a windfall for Purdue, the maker of Oxycontin, to further research and market its new product to wean people of opioids?
https://www.pharmacist.com/article/oxycodone-inventor-now-marketing-drug-wean-addicts-opioids
It’s a win-win lawmakers will say. And the company singlehandedly responsible for creating the crisis can make yet another fortune, without any loss of obscene profits or repercussions for the evil it unleashed on the world.
Congressional leaders hope the two chambers will produce compromise
legislation and send it to President Donald Trump for his signature by
year’s end.
And bonus: more random examination of the mails.
Bipartisan in this case apparently means both sides get their share of talking points instead of just the usual Republicans get 95% of what they want and the Democrats get a fig leaf.
Without numbers it’s not clear this legislation will do much more than allow more inspection of mail and open a wider field for drug companies to develop cures for the addictions their drugs induce.
Does the bill do anything about the most successful opioid cartel in America?
The richest newcomer to Forbes 2015 list of America’s Richest Families comes in at a stunning $14 billion. The Sackler family, which owns Stamford, Conn.-based Purdue Pharma, flew under the radar when Forbes launched its initial list of wealthiest families in July 2014, but this year they crack the top-20, edging out storied families like the Busches, Mellons and Rockefellers.
How did the Sacklers build the 16th-largest fortune in the country? The short answer: making the most popular and controversial opioid of the 21st century – OxyContin.
I wonder if this could become another Big Tobacco or Big Asbestos case.
Why compromise with Republicans who are wrong?