"Worse Than Big Tobacco": How Big Pharma Fuels The Opioid Epidemic
Authored by Lynn Paramore via The Institute for New Economic Thinking,
Once again, an out-of-control industry is threatening public health on a mammoth scale
Over a 40-year career, Philadelphia attorney Daniel Berger has obtained millions in settlements for investors and consumers hurt by a rogues’ gallery of corporate wrongdoers, from Exxon to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco. But when it comes to what America’s prescription drug makers have done to drive one of the ghastliest addiction crises in the country’s history, he confesses amazement.