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The podcast discussed Sari Horwitz's book about the opioid epidemic, highlighting that the crisis was far more widespread than the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, involving major companies like Walmart, Walgreens, and CVS. The book details how these companies, likened to "drug dealers in business suits," flooded the country with highly addictive pain pills and used lobbyists and legal battles to thwart government efforts to curb the crisis.
So Cara, this is the story people don't know about the opioid epidemic. Patrick wrote a great book on Purdue and the Sacklers, but it's so much bigger than that.
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The podcast discussed Sari Horwitz's book about the opioid epidemic, highlighting that the crisis was far more widespread than the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, involving major companies like Walmart, Walgreens, and CVS. The book details how these companies, likened to "drug dealers in business suits," flooded the country with highly addictive pain pills and used lobbyists and legal battles to thwart government efforts to curb the crisis.
So Cara, this is the story people don't know about the opioid epidemic. Patrick wrote a great book on Purdue and the Sacklers, but it's so much bigger than that.
They were like the Mexican cartels, but instead of guns, they had lobbyists and lawyers and business suits.
And they actually helped write a law that undercuts the DEA and our government, the people who were supposed to protect us from highly addictive pain pills, the companies undercut them by getting a law passed that basically defangs the DEA.
just like Doritos. Keep eating, we'll make more.
But what they're really angry about, yes, there's money that's being paid, they're angry that no executive of these Fortune 500 companies has gone to jail for this crime.