• PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 day ago

    The opioid crisis is definitely real, but par for the course the foreign boogie man explanations are a fig leaf for the pharma interests that pushed doctors to overprescribe opioids for the stonks-up (just look into the Sackler family to see what I mean).

    • roux [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 day ago

      Oh, wasn’t the Sackler family the ones that were thrown under the bus from the oxycotin bullshit even though it was another “too big to fail” company that was at fault or some shit?

      • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        19 hours ago

        I mean, it wouldn’t surprise me if they were the sacrificial lamb so the rest of the industry could act like the problem was solved. But no way their hands were clean.