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Opioid Files ‘Ship, ship, ship’: Drug firms’ emails show indifference to crisis (washingtonpost.com)
10 points by pseudolus on July 20, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



To put this crisis in perspective: opioid-related deaths are having a noticeable effect on life expectancy in North America.

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/substance-us...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic_in_the_Unite...

How these people are allowed to carry on this business is beyond me. It's one of the biggest problems around, and is easily solved through legislation. The fact that it's barely a topic of discussion come election time highlights the dysfunction and poor prioritization of our governments.


It shows the power of the pharmaceutical industry lobby on the political.




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