Bernie Sanders has called for an investigation into Big pharma companies who make huge profits selling large amounts of highly-addictive opioids to rural communities in West Virginia. Big pharmaceutical companies have been pumping highly addictive and dangerous opioid based pain-killers into small towns in West Virginia, pushing up addiction and overdose fatality rates to epidemic proportions. From 2007-2012, the Big Three wholesalers earned a combined $17 billion while they collectively shipped 423 million pain pills to West Virginia; that amounts to 433 pain pills for every man, woman and child in the state. Following a shocking new report, Sanders says large, multi-billion dollar corporations should not be making billions pushing addictive drugs. They should be investigated and prosecuted. Common Dreams reports: Drug-pushing, multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies should be “investigated and prosecuted,” declared Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in response to revelations that out-of-state drug wholesalers have been pouring highly-addictive and lethal opioids into rural West Virginia towns, reaping profits while countless suffer. Large, multi-billion dollar corporations should not make billions pushing addictive drugs. They should be investigated and prosecuted. https://t.co/oI37uTzN2a — Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) 20 December 2016 Reporter Eric Eyre with the Charleston Gazette-Mail published a two-part investigative series this weekend [...]
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