";s:4:"text";s:5759:" If but a fraction of reporters and news teams put in even half as much work as John Oliver does, oh the good that could result... After watching the 'reenactments', yeah, not too hard to see why the Sackler's really don't want that out there. For an even deeper picture, turn to Purdue Pharma, which manufacturers OxyContin. Old military bases. There’s just the annoying fact that we have no useable footage of Sackler himself. As despicable as that family is and the lengths they went to in order to conceal their intent, I believe that all mind-altering drugs should not only decriminalized, but legalized. No street drugs, no dealers, 75% reduction in theft and crime, a chance to keep children free and clear. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x75wwr8. It's a really ugly picture.
But in order to continue doing so, we need your support. Make driving under the influence of anything punished by a year in jail or working for a WPA like project.
Their work is available for viewing at The Sackler Gallery online, which also includes the full 2015 deposition. More than 47,000 Americans died due to opioid overdoses in 2017. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (04/14/2019) HBO
After all, didn’t Oliver and company cover this on an earlier season of Last Week Tonight?
Earlier this year, the Guggenheim was the site of a protest led by artist Nan Goldin, wherein people released false prescription papers throughout the middle of the iconic building, protesting the acceptance of donations from the Sacklers. But some of the same documents remained in a sealed file in a rural eastern Kentucky courthouse.
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He even predicted that the introduction of OxyContin would produce “a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition”. One of the biggest problems now are all the patients with chronic who handle the drug responsibly.
The Sacklers, who have donated millions to medical centers, museums, and cultural institutions, have said little publicly about Purdue and its medications, the main source of their wealth. The regular YouTube hit: "Video Unavailable. The three largest ones are AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and the McKesson Corporation. Yet, the case of Kermit, West Virginia, where millions of doses of opioids have been shipped to a town of around 400 people, shows that this oversight is tremendously lacking. In addition to the reporting from STAT and ProPublica, the segment highlighted work done by the Charleston Gazette-Mail, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, and the New York Times. “The court sees no higher value than the public (via the media) having access to these discovery materials so that the public can see the facts for themselves,” Pike Circuit Court Judge Steven Combs ruled in May 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMp6qlWeVJQ, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver S06E08 Set up addiction centers for those who want to get off it or heck stay on it. What else should you expect when you ask the drug company to monitor itself?
Purdue appealed the ruling to the Kentucky Court of Appeals, which upheld it in December 2018. There are better things to worry about…. Keaton is genuinely menacing here, not least because Sackler’s words are utterly chilling. The host explained that Purdue Pharma exec Richard Sackler … I'll leave it to John Oliver in the video above to explain why each of them are used, because it's truly wonderful. Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. Brushing aside 58 deaths with a 'that's not too bad, could have been worse', playing dumb on basic things like 'were you involved in your own gorram company? Will he face charges in the U.S. next?
(Richard Sackler is the company’s former chairman.)
Somehow, ProPublica was able to get its hands on the transcript of the deposition and published it back in February. Fetynol, Meth, Coccaine, Heroin. How are we supposed to know that he didn’t eat an atrociously large turkey sandwich while testifying?