DEA & BIG PHARMA'S ROLE IN TENS OF THOUSANDS OF U.S. DRUG OVERDOSES ANNUALLY

 

With respect to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans annually from overdoses to Oxycontin and other painkillers, the punk selling weed on the street corner is irrelevant.

"Oh, it's the Mexican cartels!" you say, "those greedy, ruthless bastards!"

Well, not exactly and certainly, not exclusively!

What if you were told that the problem is within the U.S. Department Enforcement Administration itself, the DEA, it's hiring practices and lack of oversight by the federal government?

The recent resignation by Louis Milione, Principal Deputy Director of the DEA, illustrates our point.

Milione quit his job when it was learned that, prior to being hired by the DEA in 2021 he'd worked for Big Pharma for two decades including four recent years with Morrison & Dickson, a Louisiana company discovered to be involved in an extremely high volume of oxycodone and hydrocodone, ten times to amount ordered by all of Louisiana's pharmacies.

Prior to that job, Milione had worked as a $600 per hour consultant for Purdue Pharma, a company now under scrutiny fighting legal challenges for their heavy marketing of oxycontin and other painkillers.

It's also been uncovered that Milione's boss, Anne Milgram, has escaped Senate scrutiny through all this because she's not a recent hire needing approval, but has been on the job over ten years.

So, if America's pharmaceutical companies are producing painkillers in quantities far in excess of prescribed drugs and if the DEA is hiring its chief deputies from within those very companies, is it not obvious that the DEA itself and Big Pharma share a huge part of the culpability for American deaths via painkiller overdoses?