After his son’s tragic death, a Louisiana pharmacist goes to extremes to expose the rampant corruption behind the opioid addiction crisis.
The efforts of Dan, a small-town pharmacist in Louisiana to stop the weaponization of OxyContin, which has wiped out hundreds of thousands of people–if not millions. It is a stunning story–one that becomes even more powerful when we take a look at the reengineering of land use, real estate, and government subsidies related to the people targeted by OxyContin and other substances–fentanyl, meth, cocaine–as well as predatory lending in student loans, auto and consumer loans, and mortgages. OxyContin is just one of many weapons in the economic cleansing invasion underway.
Thank you Catherine for exposing this documentary to your subscribers. It is a sobering look at a the current state narcotic abuse, corruption, and loss of principles and ethics, and respect for life for economic gain.
As for the “pain” clinics, and as you probably are probably aware, they propped-up nationwide and some were directly connected to three letter agencies.
Here in CA, during the period in question, after its introduction to the “marketplace”, I quickly stopped prescribing OxyContin due to its huge potential for abuse, complications, and death. Unfortunately, physicians, due to massive advertising and “educational” efforts by the Big Pharma in conjunction with specialty boards support e.g. Physical Medicine & Rehab, Anesthesiology, and other specialty certification boards promotion of the so called 5th vital sign was begun. Pain, along with temperature, blood pressure, respiratory rate, and heart rate was heavily promoted. Through heavy lobbying at federal and state levels for years prior, physicians were “shamed” into prescribing opioids overcoming common sense. It became a sad state of affairs.
The answer came in conjunction with academia, well, lets create Pain Management specialists who can behave as the pain management experts. But, that was a distraction. Many types of physician began to prescribe narcotics and analgesics.
In addition, DEA licenses (224/225/363) (https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/drugreg/categories.htm) were issued to non-medical, business types (some of which were foreigners with criminal and shady credentials) and were allowed to handle, transport and distribute deadly amounts of controlled substances including OxyContin. Often their base of operations were a stones throw from D.C. Imagine that. And, this saga continues.
WOW. I had no idea. Fits with my experience – when the federal government wants something to go – it goes. There are always thousands of ways to make it happen. That is why after a certain point if something is not correcting and headed towards working, then you know it a plan.