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2022-08-18 -Lurid Crime Tales-

US pharmacies ordered to pay $650.6m for role in opioids crisis

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-18 01:52|| || Front Page|| [16 views ] Top

#1

JUST ASKING
Isn't the blame shared from the manufacture of the drug, sales rep's pushing the drug of DOC's with $$$ incentives, Doc's taking the $$$$, and writing the scripts time after time.

The Drug stores are only filling legally written scripts as required by law.

Isn't this like charging a Dept Store for MURDER for selling a knife to an Adult that goes bonkers?

Posted by NN2N1 2022-08-18 06:48|| 2022-08-18 06:48|| Front Page Top

After the billions, possibly trillions, which BioPharma has reaped 2019-2022+ for "The Killer Shot", this settlement is a pocket change transaction.

Posted by George Chusotle6859 2022-08-18 08:12|| 2022-08-18 08:12|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't blame doctors or Big Pharma. Try going through a kidney stone or shingles without opioids.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-08-18 10:44|| 2022-08-18 10:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Costs passed on to the customers in 3 .. 2 .. 1 ..

Posted by magpie 2022-08-18 12:40|| 2022-08-18 12:40|| Front Page Top

#5 But Biden won't pay a dime for open borders and the resulting fentanyl crisis.

Posted by Jatle Sinatra9653 2022-08-18 13:58|| 2022-08-18 13:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Two questions that no one is asking:

1. So what do we do for people who are in genuine pain? How do we make their lives better?

2. Why are there so many people overdosing on drugs? Why are their lives so hopeless, and what can we do about it?

Naturally many people, especially bureaucrats, won't like thinking about these questions; and they will like the answers even less, so I suppose we are doomed to more of the same for some time.

Posted by Tom 2022-08-18 14:11|| 2022-08-18 14:11|| Front Page Top

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