opioid epidemic

FENTANYL Across Big Pharma in US, Canada & Mexico

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Ireland is a tax haven for Big Pharma companies including lesser known – Mallinckrodt.  Originally founded in the US, headquartered in Dublin, 90% of its revenue is generated in the US.    In 1942, they were approached by a contingent of the Manhattan Project operated by Oppenheimer, to produce uranium for an atomic bomb.  Located in St Louis, they complied.  The nuclear waste was put into steel drums that ultimately leaked into Coldwater Creek causing the site to become a Superfund for Toxic waste removal and remediation in 1988.

Mallinckrodt is the only company in the US authorized to manufacture cocaine.

In 2013, Mallinckrodt executed a tax inversion scheme wherein they relocated their headquarters to Ireland whose corporate tax rate was 2%-4%, in order to avoid/evade US tax liability.  Since then they have been involved in numerous criminal activities including, price fixing, questionable medicine, monopoly, price gouging, doctor spiffs for marketing, and ultimately their role in the opioid crisis.  Between 2006 and 2012, they produced 76 billion opioid pills in the US.  In 2011, the DEA noticed a corresponding spike in illegal oxycodone in areas where Mallinckrodt distributors operated.

In 2019, as a result of fines Mallinckrodt spun off  the opioid name brand and all other drugs were rebranded under Sonorant Therapeutics.  In 2020, the Mallinckrodt brand declared bankruptcy and all legal claims went down with the bankruptcy.  They filed a second bankruptcy in 2023 due to their failure to pay for the opioid suit filed by Texas.

It’s product lines include: fentanyl, oxy, methadone, hydrocodone, sufentanyl, Adderall, vicodin, etc…  as well as an iodide and a Gadolinium contrast agent for MRI’s.   In 2017 and again in 2024, the FDA and the VA declared that gadolinium can cause serious health problems including:  kidney failure, debilitating joint and skin problems, and fatal brain damage.   It is still in use and considered a rare earth mineral.  I was given this contrast last year.

CARGILL:  Cargill is one of the five largest producers of food additives for humans and animals.  In 1971, Cargill sold 63,000 tons of seed treated with a methylmercury based fungicide that eventually caused a minimum of 650 deaths.  In 2005, a lawsuit was filed by International Labor Rights against Cargill and Nestle for child trafficking and physical abuse. 

In 2019 Cargill was found to be illegally harvesting cocoa for the production of cocaine using trafficked/stolen children in Africa.   In 2021, eight former child slaves filed suit against Cargill for enslavement.  In 2018, employees tried to unionize for bad working conditions – they were arrested for trespassing.  In 2020, they were accused of land grabbing illegally in Colombia.   

They have been found guilty of deforestation in the Amazon for soy production.  They were fined for excessive pollution in the US.  They have been cited for tax evasion, misrepresentation, false declarations of sales and profits, using dummy corporations and theft.

No one ever went to prison.   The issues in Africa were never resolved – because, well, they came from – Africa.  

Teva Pharmaceuticals, an Israeli company, is one of the United States’ biggest manufacturers of generic opioids, including oxycodone. Teva also manufactures the branded fentanyl products Actiq and Fentora.  They have the largest plant in Canada – and 3 locations in Mexico. 

In 2010, Bayer sued TEVA for false marketing claims.  In 2015 they were sued for patent infringement.  The US court favored TEVA claiming it was ‘an honest mistake’.   In 2016,  20 state AG’s sued TEVA for price collusion.   In 2019, the US Supreme court sided with – TEVA.  In 2019 TEVA was sued by 44 states for inflationary pricing by as much as 1000%.  In 2019, TEVA was sued for overprescribing opioids.  In 2020 it was sued for ‘kickbacks’.  In 2023 TEVA was sued again for price fixing and over-marketing opioid products.  In 2024, the EU sued TEVA over the same patent violation that the US said was a ‘mistake’.

TEVA is the worlds largest producer of fentanyl with 50 plants across 30 countries!

IF it sounds like some people in the government are being paid off, if it sounds like Congress is a lap dog for Pharma, it likely means that companies like TEVA, Cargill, and Mallinckrodt among a slew of others are allowed to skate with simple fines that barely scrape the scope of their criminal activities.  

President Trump should be apprised of these companies and their huge fentanyl distribution legally and potentially ILLEGALLY to Cartels.  Given their criminal negligence across various lawsuits, holding them accountable as Cartel Distributors could have a far greater impact.

Certainly closing our borders and asking Canada and Mexico to help in fighting this drug abuse is hugely consequential.   But TEVA in the US happens to be located in New Jersey: 

May 2023 – DEA Operation Last Mile Tracks Down Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel Associates Operating in New Jersey.

Immigration – Gangs – And America’s New Gangland

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The border crisis that doesn’t exist is now in my backyard.  A mere twenty minutes away an entire neighborhood is now in the hands of a Venezuelan gang taking over entire apartment complexes.  Denver has become the nations capitol for number of illegal immigrants per capita.   City officials attempt to detract from the issue by claiming these apartment complexes had already been cited for violations.   Governor Polis – is noticeably absent. 

The influx of gangs is barely visibly addressed by the White House, preferring to defend the nicey nice women and children flooding into America.  Because America needs more low skilled workers.   Because farmers need gang members to pick cotton and grapes.   Deportation is not an option because Venezuela outright refuses to take them.   And given the current animosity between Maduro and the WH Handlers – that is not about to change.

Not to worry – crime is significantly lower ~ says the mind muddled fussbuckets on Twitter.   Barbarians grow up to be Barbaric.   Adding to the Faulty Towers debacle – due to the increase in opioid use, school delusionalism and lockdowns, children are ‘depressed’ and need medical intervention.  Not to worry, Sandstone Care is there to help put these dysfunctioning children in your neighborhood.   Right across from the Child Care Center.  

Sandstone claims it has been overwhelmed with requests for psychiatric care for children.  Sandstone isn’t just a local facility, it is powered and owned by two hedge funds:  Vistria Group and Auxilium Partners.  

AUXILIUM PARTNERS:  Auxilium has four partners;  Vaulted AI, Advanced Psychiatric Health, Figure AI, and Kamino Digital Assets.   The appearance is the implementation of AI healthcare utilizing teens as the experimental quotient.  Much like a Big Pharma Trial.   Let’s see what happens.  One such application is Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). 

TMS is a wearable helmet that changes your brain’s magnetic field and transmits electrical currents thru induction.   Essentially, TMS is the new evolution of lobotomies performed extensively in the 1940’s and 1950’s.  At the time lobotomies were like a fad, the new super dooper medical creation that would forever solve the problem of disruptive women.

According to Mayo Clinic “the biology of why TMS works isn’t completely understood, methods may change as experts learn more about the most effective ways to perform treatments.”  Despite this – the FDA gave approval.  Side effects include:  seizures, head pain, headaches, hearing loss, emotional mania, spasms, twitching and lightheadedness.  It is unknown what long term effects may be…  and little to support its efficacy. 

Sandstone concentrates its patient load on those between 12 and 18.  They are not in lockdown in the facility and are free to go wherever they please whenever they please.  As in to neighboring homes and the Child Care Center just across the street.   As with all these ‘care’ facilities, their biggest problem is finding employees. Secondarily, the Psychiatrist is not an employee but a part-time contractor who typically makes an appearance for roughly 3-4 hours per week.   In the meantime – drugs and sedation are the means of control.

I am reminded of the Kamala word tribute wherein she claims she will fix everything Biden did to the economy.   Create a problem – create a new industry to solve the problem, much like a hamster wheel.  The Hamster representing Taxpayers.   

VISTRIA GROUP:   They claim to combine ‘purpose with profit’.  Co-founder, Marty Nesbitt has an distinguishing career background with the Pritzker Family Cartel, and Chairman of the Obama Foundation – among other highlights.  Co-founder, Kip Kirkpatrick comes from JP Morgan’s offshoot – One equity Partners.  

And suddenly, all the promises of we are different, we are here to help you, we care, all the illusions  of Big Pharma once again poke the dragon.  It is like Climate Change – creating a new industry of wealth on idiotic ecological disaster technologies.   Or the Opioid epidemic pushed by the Medical Industry in alliance with Big Pharma.   Create The Epidemic – Cure the Epidemic.

Despite numerous citizen meetings across Colorado as Sandstone demands more and more facilities within housing neighborhoods, City Council members recently approved by 100% vote the zoning variances necessary for Sandstone overruling the proximity to Child Care Centers which are city, county and state regulated.    

In my opinion, Behavioral Health and Medical facilities should be located on medical/hospital property – Gangs need to go back to their respective countries – and border laws already in existence should be enforced.   Those who don’t enforce the law are thus guilty of association.  End the MANIA.

America’s Opioid Epidemic Continues to Worsen!

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America’s opiates literally began with the coming of the Mayflower.   The Sumerians called it ‘the joy plant’ over 5,000 years ago.   It was used for both medicinal purposes and for pleasure.   It was used to treat pain during the era of smallpox and dysentery in the US.   Mixed with alcohol, it was used as a tincture for many ailments as well as for fussy children.   Opium dens sprang up across the US.   And fair weather use grew exponentially.   Then in 1906 Teddy Roosevelt declared the opiates illegal outside of prescribed medicinal use and the Chinese Mafia moved in.

Various Tongs, Chinese gangs, vied for the illegal trade of drugs which was hugely lucrative.  One of the leading triads is the New Righteousness and Peace Commercial & Industrial Guild founded in 1919 and still active today.  In the 1950’s, the founder, Sun Yee On, was deported to Taiwan from the mainland.   From there, the business thrived and expanded!

Sometime in the 1980’s they moved their operation to Hong Kong.

Throughout Hollywood’s early years, Chinese opiate dens found that sex room activity could be used to blackmail their clients.   And the cesspool that is Hollywood today is no different.  It was lucrative and found a steady stream of old and new clients!   Owned by China via triads pushing illicit opium, cocaine and heroin.   Only today, the have added ‘fentanyl’.

Fentanyl was first used in the US in the 1960’s as an adjunct to anesthesia.   In 2015, there were 6.5 million fentanyl prescriptions dispensed by doctors in America.   A lethal dose is 2 milligrams.   The government attempts to distinguish between illegally manufactured Chinese fentanyl and legally manufactured pharmaceutical brands.  Johnson & Johnson, Teva, Takeda, and BioDelivery Sciences International are some of the current medical manufacturers.

Heroin was first introduced by Bayer in the late 1800’s.   These drugs became additives to just about everything including cough syrup, coca-cola, teething powders, and tinctures for menstrual cramps.   Addiction was massive.  Money was more massive!

Today opiates come into the US illegally through the Mexican Border.   Migrants are not searched.   Their medical history is not evaluated.   And the vast majority are ‘young men’.   Given the quantity of fentanyl for drug use is so small, smuggling is relatively easy and lucrative.   Cities with the largest increase in addiction and deaths from drugs incudes;   Philadelphia, Columbus, Chicago, Cleveland and Milwaukee.

Across the US 70,000+ die from opioid drug use every year, the vast majority between the ages of 18 – 45.   These are the working class.  The drug fueled relationship vomited across America in the recent court action between Heard and Depp was only a glimpse into the Hollywood noggin vacancy.   What Money Can BUY!

So exactly what is our esteemed CDC doing to mitigate this Epidemic?   Monitoring.    What is HHS doing to mitigate the opioid crisis?   Bercerra has declared that HHS is putting forth a great effort to provide addiction services.   In other words, both agencies are doing NOTHING!  And the DEA?   They created a national give back day where people voluntarily relinquish their ‘prescription’.

Two sources – legal and illegal.  

From the legal prescription standpoint, Pharma and the FDA have done little.   Perdue Pharmaceuticals was the main distributor in the 1990’s of OxyCotin.   The FDA approved the drug although trials were apparently less than realistic.   They have been cited as the issue that caused the first wave of deaths from this legal prescription.   Doctors were also embedded in the liability as they freely handed out prescriptions for long term use despite warnings.

While the opioid crisis has been marked as one of thee most devastating epidemics in history, little has actually been done by our government agencies.  In fact, year over year it has only continued to worsen significantly.   Overdoes and deaths have risen over 54% in the last 7 years.

The fastest means of eradicating the epidemic is to stop the manufacture – stop the prescriptions – and close the BORDER.   Medically, withdrawal clinics would be tasked with addressing addicts to help wean them off the toxic death march.   If clinics were specific to opioid addiction – it might lessen the stigma given patients would all share a common issue – while a focused concentration by staff would hasten recovery efforts.

Monitoring and setting up ‘committees’ to evaluate and research is a ridiculous WASTE!  Employers spend billions that could be relieved.   And crime would drop significantly!   A Win for ALL!

Weather Manipulation: An Opioid Epidemic

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In 1976, the UN created a treaty within which 78 countries agreed not to participate in the use of weather modification for hostile or military engagements which would have “widespread, long-lasting, or severe effects as the means of destruction, damage or injury to any other party state”.   States that are NOT party to the agreement would thus be susceptible to whatever military strikes and destruction party states deem necessary.

The parties that did not sign this agreement or signed but failed to ratify, include:  France, Mexico, Croatia, Portugal, Lebanon, Turkey, Bolivia, Holy See, Iceland, Iraq, Liberia, Luxembourg, Morocco, Syria, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Thailand, Cambodia, Iran, Haiti, Dominican republic, Bosnia, Montenegro, Myanmar, Laos, Nepal, and ‘most’ of Africa.

What the treaty acknowledged was the fact that weather modification was in existence, had been for some time, and as a result of its scientific breakthroughs, required ‘management’.  The Treaty states that the agreement against hostile use shall not ‘hinder’ the continued use of ‘environmental modification techniques’.

In addition the wording could be legally construed to allow for the use with debates over what constituted; 1.  Widespread, 2.  Long-lasting, and 3.  Severe.

Today, modification is referred to as ‘geoengineering’ and refers to solar radiation management (SRM) and global climate engineering.  Which came first – the chicken or the egg?  In the Geoengineering mantra, it is now unclear if global warming/climate change is a result of natural causes, man causes, or geoengineering manipulation.  Given that the tests have been ongoing for over 70 years, the trial and error factor is not unlike the nuclear tests of the 1950’s.  Let’s wait and see what happens when we nuke our military personnel…  My father was a victim.

Such is the ‘science of weather manipulation’.

Despite denying it existed, the 1976 UN document brings an obvious truth to what was termed a conspiracy theory for decades.  Given that we know that truth is in short supply within these various arenas, it would not be out of the ordinary to  assume that the evolution of weather modification has progressed most infinitely and is in fact utilized quite readily for peaceful purposes, and for management of nations that we feel need to be punished.   Albeit, in a way that might not be construed as ‘long-lasting’ – which has no legal definition.  Therefore, the punishment might be temporal, flooding that will subside, or a heat wave that makes life uncomfortable, except that we are now finding that even the most temporal change has cumulative and domino effects.  

But if no one admits it, if no one party states that they are engaging, the media will continue to claim it is all man-made and we simply need to reduce our ‘carbon footprint’, our gas consumption, our aerosol use, our…

One of the methods of achieving SRM is to inject billions of particles of sulfer dioxide into the stratosphere in order to deflect sunlight and send it back out toward the sun.  It is believed that this technique would cause widespread and localized droughts in either Africa or South America.  This particular methodology is currently inherently funded by Bill Gates and Harvard – the same Harvard and Bill Gates that advocate for massive de- population.

Coincidence?

Much of the initiative is defined as “Experiments” which are conducted in our atmosphere as a hit and miss, maybe, theory that we need to act on in order to determine if it works – and if it doesn’t then we have – consequences.  Like Global Warming and Chaotic Weather Patterns.

Apparently, as a result of these manipulations, scientists warn that stopping the manipulation is like a heroin addict going cold turkey, the likely reaction of the atmosphere would be catastrophic as it went into convulsions and withdrawal.

The problem is there is no corresponding methodone fix!

“If geoengineering were halted all at once, there would be rapid temperature and precipitation increases at 5–10 times the rates from gradual global warming.”x This means that stopping SAI once it had started could be more dangerous than starting it in the first place. Ozone depletion is another important side effect of SAI.

Furthermore, once SRM is deployed, sudden interruption would cause a termination effect, raising temperatures rapidly, creating a situation worse than it was before its deployment. Therefore, SRM will create dependency and captive markets.”

In other words, we created a monster akin to ISIS.  We can’t terminate what was started decades ago because it would send our environment into a cataclysmic state of chaos, so we are stuck.  It is liking weaning off opioids.

Weather Manipulation is an addiction.  So while the scientists that ‘experimented’ us to this place desperately try and claim that it is all man-made and a carbon footprint, the reality is that this same science is actually most likely the base cause of the chaotic eclipse that has morphed into a nanospeed decay of planet earth.

How the particles are injected is the source of argument and conspiracies, instead of the fact that they are injected.   And so, the truth is mushed into a legal advertising morph or play on words.  But the truly sad reality is the fact that we are now addicted to a scientific shitakestorm that began as an ‘experiment’.

There are those who claim that aluminum is one of the stratosphere ingredients in the nanoparticle experiment.

What does aluminum do to our body?
Aluminum is linked to blood disorders, such as hemolysis, leukocytosis and porphyria, as well as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.  In addition, exposure to this unwanted substance can cause an increase in cavities, as it interferes with bone calcification and competes with fluoride.   Aluminum exposure causes brain oxidation and inflammation – while increasing amounts of the beta-amyloid proteins linked with Alzheimer’s disease aluminum exposure causes brain oxidation and inflammation – while increasing amounts of the beta-amyloid proteins linked with Alzheimer’s disease.

What you CAN DO:  Eat Cilantro by the fresh bunch, crave anti-oxidants, turmeric, purified water, sea salt, avoid processed foods, high doses of vitamin C, garlic and onion. 

So many of us opt to avoid all the vaccines which are rich in aluminum, but if our atmosphere is deluged, it becomes even more of a dominant agenda…

FYI: Don’t forget if they are actively injecting trillions of particle into our atmosphere that means our rain water, our ponds – are the highest concentrate.  Sorry.  Also realize that this means that Trump can not simply alter this course given that the proposed reaction would be severe withdrawals far worse than the current weather chaos we experience today…

Opioid Epidemic – Trumps’ Problem? Or Big Pharma?

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Opioid abuse has been a problem for more than two decades, and yet, somehow Trump is being touted as a failure by both left and right because in his first ten months of office, he hasn’t fixed it. Even Ann Coulter is aboard the bash team.

A New York Times opinion piece would have us believe that Obama’s eight years don’t count in the fight because he did – nothing, and Bush’s eight years don’t count, Billy, Walter, huey and puey don’t count, all that matters is the fact that Trump hasn’t fixed it, and that’s what counts.

Of course, opinions and advice flies from all directions, but most of it isn’t about fixing the epidemic so much as re-medicating the addicts.

What is the “Cause”?   It’s root stems from Big Pharma and weaves to doctors and hospitals who take a spiff for every pill they dispense and are only concerned about profit, not patient. That’s it. Easy. Just stop it at the source, the drug dealer. When it comes to illegal drugs we understand that nuance completely, arrest the dealers. When it comes to prostitution, we get it! Arrest the pimps. For some reason, pundits would have us believe that the way to tend to the opioid epidemic is to subvert billions of dollars from the federal budget and use it for ‘emergency response and treatment’.

Really?

So their version of a cure is to create a new oversight committee to create federally funded facilities that will be tied to reams of bureaucracy and provide treatment which entails weaning in-house patients off the drug by giving them other drugs, medications and counseling.   In the meantime Big Pharma, doctors and hospitals will continue to dispense with unabated urgency because now they are losing money on the addicts in treatment. So they’ll push more – harder. Except they will make money on the antidotes that will be freely dispensed like hard candy at a lollipop store!

The simplistic answer is you simply knell and prostrate yourself before Big Pharma and hospital executives and ask them pretty please will they stop pushing opioids and take a 10% hit on their bottom line profits… Or maybe you get a consortium of retail executives to cut a deal whereby they provide an incentive for the money spent on opioids to revert back into retail spending by giving Big Pharma a retail spiff.

At any rate, the core problem won’t change unless you – change the core.

The reality is there are a lot of people making big bucks off the opioid crisis and simply setting up treatment does absolutely nothing for the problem.   The US has a significant ‘drug’ problem and opioids are just a part of the crisis.

As of 2013, 78.7 million Americans were on some form of psychiatric drug including 1 million children under the age of 5, of which 275,000 are infants under the age of one on prescribed medication for psychosis. The bulk of infants on psychotropic’s are on ‘anti-anxiety drugs’. How is that even possible? Who puts an infant on a psychotic medication?

Infants born to drug addicted moms.   But according to statistics that may account for roughly 24,000 births. Why would the remaining 250,000 infants require psychotic drugs? The overwhelming answer would seem to be – laziness. It is no different than adults looking for a pill to make them skinny, make them young, make them happy, make them better, healthier, sexier. Pushing the pills on children is the new easy way out when your child doesn’t seem to measure up to Mary’s or Martha’s.   Infants are prescribed ADHD drugs. And the psychiatrist is only too happy to comply because that’s another spiff in their pocket.

Today, the role of a psychiatrist is mostly to act as a pill dispensary. As a result, most psychiatric practices are a secondary specialty. With neurology or internal medicine their primary. They don’t actually treat the patient, instead they prescribe medication and then send them to a ‘real therapist’ for counseling therapy.   But how can a therapist know if their counseling is working if the patient is drugged?

And so the circle goes.

There are legitimate reasons to prescribe psychotic drugs. But if Big Pharma is only treating a few hundred thousand, the profits aren’t worth the manufacturing cost. It’s like the vaccine hysteria. Unless millions of people are required to partake, it isn’t worth the effort. It’s like the attitude parlayed by the vaccine industry in pushing vaccines for things that are relatively benign – chicken pox. “You don’t want your child to suffer do you?” Is the guilt.

So you want Trump to fix it?  

Someone has to suffer. That’s just the way it works. But turning everyone into a whimperdoodle isn’t going to cure anything.  You want to stop the opioid epidemic? STOP PRESCRIBING OPIOIDS.

Opioid Addiction – Big Pharma Profits

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Opioids. The epidemic began when? Under whose watch? Under what guise?   They cut deals, dealt openly, took kickbacks and lucrative add-ons all at the behest of their Master who created the newest pyramid scheme, the dealers themselves; Big Pharm, the Insurance Industry and Doctors.   The street pimps? They were small potatoes compared to the real money – $$$$$$$$$$$$$ billions.

If you want to blame a President, then go back to the beginning, when the push became one of the biggest scams in history. 1998.

Pharma needs a continual epidemic in order to survive. Insurance is willing to play as long as the Opioids don’t create lawsuits, and the doctors, well they just want a piece of the action.

Last year I had back surgery for a herniated disc. After the surgery I felt great, and given I get side effects from narcotics, I opted to not take any. But the hospital went into a tizzy claiming I was ‘required’ to not only take them during my stay, but also I was ‘required’ to fill a prescription for home before they would release me! We argued. I spit out the pills into my hand feeling much like I was a character in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, and the prescription fill sat in my kitchen until this ‘unnamed’ person chose to lay claim to the drug and empty the bottle…

SO who was President in 1998?   Billy. And where was Soros?   He was fighting a slew of accusations claiming he was a co-conspirator in the Hillary Haiti scam, and fussing up to having actually participated in looting with the Nazi’s, and battling the new media which no longer portrayed him as the angelic philanthropist.

It was the beginning of a long thought out chess game in which the sheep would be slaughtered by drugs, led astray in education with the rewriting of history, and immorality was considered normal and embraced.

Opioids have been an epidemic for 20+ years, and the media is crying for Trump to solve this heinous crime.   Really??  But who are the perpetrators, the instigators who profited handsomely – Big Pharm, the Insurance Industry, and doctors who no longer ‘cured anything’ but instead prescribed massive doping drugs to mask the true devastation of disease, and thus create – addiction.

This addiction having reached massive proportions, Big Pharma will be called on to find a new drug to cure the addiction their Opioids created, and a new and ever more massive scam will pervade.   Drugs to cure the side effects of drugs to cure the side effect of – drugs.  But wait, Obama already approved a new and improved – old drug – to cure the catastrophe created by the other ‘old drug’.

So, how many drugs does it take to support an industry that needs to make $450 billion per year just to meet last year’s quota? How many people are employed by Big Pharma? A million? More?   And with the newest addition, Biotech, the stakes are massively higher. Think a President can even dent that equation? Or add to it? This is far beyond the scope of a President.

During Hillary’s campaign, she took in over $336,000 from Big Pharma, more than any other candidate. Donald Trump? $1,010. No missing zeroes.

By 2008, when Bush was President, drug overdose deaths were nearly matching those of deaths from vehicular accidents which is considered “the leading cause of injury related death in the US”. By 2016, when Obama was President, Opioid deaths had nearly doubled with Maryland, Maine, Delaware and Connecticut, leading the pack. What did Obama do? He had the FDA approve a new drug that Big Pharma could freely market, Probuphine. It is administered via an ‘implant’ that releases a continuous flow into the bloodstream. It is an opioid. Side effects are possible, infection from the surgical implantation, and dependency or death may occur.

While in tablet or pill form Probuphine has the same efficacy as Methadone and has been in existence since 1981, the implant version was just approved and studies have yet to determine comparative results.

The bottom line;  giving a drug to stop the use of another drug does nothing to mitigate the problem and only ramps up the profit margin of the problem, i.e., Big Pharma, the Insurance Industry and Doctors.   Can Trump change this cycle? I doubt it. This is a well instilled logic and rational which has helped to drive up medical costs, insurance rates, and hospital bills to the point of no return.   And Big Pharma isn’t about to take a hit.