“You’re aware America is under siege, fighting an opioid crisis that has exploded into a public-health emergency. You’ve heard of OxyContin, the pain medication to which countless patients have become addicted. But do you know that the company that makes Oxy and reaps the billions of dollars in profits it generates is owned by one family by the name of Sackler?” More …
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Big Pharma Quietly Enlists Leading Professors to Justify $1,000-Per-Day Drugs
WHO Releases List of World’s Most Dangerous Superbugs
“For the first time ever, the World Health Organization has drawn up a list of the highest priority needs for new antibiotics — marching orders, it hopes, for the pharmaceutical industry. The list enumerates 12 bacterial threats, grouping them into three categories: critical, high, and medium.”