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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2018
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Get to the core of it --> Big pharma corporate donations to politicians, that's why Congress is turning a blind eye on the pharmaceutical industry!
Don't forget private prisons lobby too. Not going after the company and arresting non violent users is exactly why not only the Rx company is up but also private prisons.
Also the politicians own stocks in the pharmaceutical companies and the methadone clinics. Both Republican and Democrats are making money from this and want people to get addicted. They certainly aren't going to pass any laws to stop this.
Yeah but, it makes for great political speaches.
Kinda like prohibition. Drunks. The lot of them.
Figure out whos behind it all, your mind will be blown..
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The drug war was waged by the ones ordering trafficking, high level folks, and than having certain dirty cops on their payrolls to "loose" evidence and put it back on the streets so then double, sometimes triple profits are made for the same supply. The Italian Aemrican mafia and other took power of the French connection from the Corsicans when the US took over Vietnam from the French because both were exporting opium from Laos. Reagan was head of the mob ran Screen Actors Guild and somehow 😄 got the blessing to be Governor of California and then President, his mentor was on the head of MCA with La Cosa Nostra guys like Giaquinto who were also on the board of Meridian Logistics, the stuff down at the Cabazon rez, along with Yakuza, Wackenhut/CIA, all when "the company" (CIA)(See Mena, "Bluegrass Conspiracy", California Cocaine Corridor) was smuggling drugs directly from the cartels (see new documentary: 'The Last Narc')
....and then as if that wasnt enough of a racket, the same cats and their friends promote private prisons
It's the ultimate hustle
meanwhile, people serve life sentences for marijuana
There was a fella, a musician. He got busted for a joint. A single joint. He thought it would be funny to plead insanity. Judge didn't think so. He got put in a mental facility were he eventually DID go a bit insane. I wish I could remember a name but my brother had some of his music.
"The new prohibition". I am subject to random testing, so, although I have chronic back pain, I can do nothing within company policy to alleviate the pain. So legalizing pot would not help me, but nevertheless, I think it should be legalized. In my view, it would reduce drinking. I believe drinking alcohol is far more harmful than marijuana. I can drink, and do, but not to the point where I'd fail an early morning test.....
You're exaggerating a little. No one is serving a life sentence for having marijuana
@@THEDUDEABlDES Unfortunately you're wrong
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/life-prison-selling-marijuana-people-new-pot-laws-forgot
@@TheKad33 no I'm not
Kind of makes you wonder if the whole war on drugs is a scam.
Wonder no more.
Always has been.
Of course
Ya think. As an African American we already knew.
It is it’s all about money nothing else
Even retired cops who led the so called war on drugs are admitting it’s all about money and drugs should be legalized
To allow any corporation to be too big to prosecute or too big to fail undermines our government.
Like Amazon. Perty soon.
Hellenic, this is more strong proof of a system rigged by corporations through their bought Republican and Democrat politicians. MONEY OUT OF POLITICS, NOW!
@a hellenic pagan I think that is their intent
Agreed. There is no such thing as to big to fail/prosecute. They don't want to. They've been bought.
@Brian Warner if thats true then stop making poor peopl and middle class people pay taxes
Many of the senators and house representatives who allowed this to happen, they own stocks in the pharmaceutical companies and stocks in Methadone clinics. They wanted people to get addicted.
And they get money for their campaigns and lobbyists
So follow the money and arrest the corrupted politicians.
Not going after the company and arresting non violent users is exactly why not only the Rx company is up but also private prisons.
PROBLEM: No laws broken by M. Happier shareholders. Ill-defined ethics and chain of responsibility, culpability. Should doctors, prosecutors, users or street sellers carry blame? Distributors have "free enterprise" on their side. Pharmaceutical already face *regulation.* Do people want more regulation? Conservatives congressman generally say no to that. They would suffer support losses from lobbyist if they vote the wrong way. Voting has been tried and failed.
Can't. They voted. That's their job. Bribes and corruption have been normalized.
I say a good tar and featherin would be nice.
www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cmte=C00108035&cycle=2016
It sounds like McKesson is influencing the thinning of ambulance tires.
It's simple, the DEA lawyers want to get a job in the drug industry after their DEA career. Drug companies hire from the DEA to get an advantage. If your the lawyer who went after the Drug company, your chances of getting a job is slim.
People are responsible for what they put in their bodies; we place blame and use the prison system to fight a “problem,” but there is little education and rehabilitation programs. Follow the money, the government isn’t helping at all.
Lucky they did not
Get caught with pot!
Ironic that if you had a drug conviction on your record, chances are you couldn't work at McKesson.
Thanks for your excellent thought
Two words: Campaign financing.
I feel like the law is so poorly written that any good lawyer can make their illegal acts legal. That is why no one wants to face them, you kind of got to hope that the judge is thinking about the people.
It's a club and you ain't in it.
Almost every time I hear about a problem in the US it seems to lead to a big corporation that is using lobbying to influence politicians. Lobbying is at the core of so many problems. We need to curtail it.
Huh...and as a vet with a permanent spinal injury and I have to sign & swear not to abuse & can barely get a pill or shot when needed...
Mckesson, the new Pablo Escobar
Thank you, Sackler Family. #opioids
Government lawyers hoping to be lawyers for big pharma!
It's all about the money. I'm curious to know how much money McKesson has given to the Presidential candidates for their bid for the election 2020.
McKesson is also directly affiliated with distributing the Covid vaccine. For example, massive warehouse in Kentucky right off I-65.
Welp McK is liberal if that answers your question. I work for McKesson corporate.
Instead of s war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me! -2Pac 1993
Taking it to the street...by the Doobie Brothers lol.poverty is a Spell!
When money comes first, every thing else out the window. No matter where you are.
IMO - same thing is going on with Medical insurance companies. They own Washington D.C.
People should be spending life in prison for this.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who receives special treatment. Follow the money, and those in power!
The DEA is out of control. I live in Florida and due to a major injury I take pain medication. Fentanyl patch and oxycodone. I have for about 7 years. The DEA is putting so much pressure on doctors that they no longer will subscribe these medications and if you have chronic pain proven by things like MRI’s they give you so little that it doesn’t work. In the last six months they have reduced me so much that I spend all day if not most of the day everyday in bed with tears in my eyes and sometimes crying from the pain. The DEA has basically taken my life away because I no longer leave my house except doctor appointments because of the pain because it is much worse when I’m not lying down. I stopped being able to my housework. I can no longer work because I have to be on my feet and move around so now we are just down to my husband’s income. I can’t get another doctor because they are all under the same pressure. Plus pain doctors in Florida do not like to take under doctors patients. Besides I wouldn’t know what kind of doctor I was getting and I can’t ask if they would prescribe the right amount on medicine because then they would just assume I am a “drug seeker”. When in reality I am a “painless seeker”. Pain wears you down fast and I can’t see living like this for the rest of my life. I am almost 50 but to be honest I don’t think I will see too many more years because what is the point of living in constant pain and not being able to do anything. This is complete ridiculous. All in the name of trying to find abusers so the actual good people get punished instead. I have never abused my meds and i take them exactly as I am supposed to. If I don’t end my life eventually I will end up dying anyways because of the crazy amounts of tylenol and motrin that I take around the clock. All because the DEA wants to stop abusers or addicts I completely lose my life. I have three teenagers that I am neglecting along with my husband. It makes me so mad and sad. I am getting more and more depressed everyday. I tell my doctor but he “doesn’t want to stand out in the area and be questioned”. I like my doctor but I don’t like this. My condition is so bad that they have to go in an burn the pain nerves to my back to relieve some of the pain but that doesn’t take it completely away because I have more than just one thing wrong because of seven years ago.
Sorry for your pain problem, you should look into nature pathic healing
Because in America it has sadly become who you know and who you blow.
What do you expect when there's money in politics?
Too big to prosecute = looming kleptocracy?
I'm glad someone else is saying that. Even now when I mention, "It's odd that the powers in Law Enforcement positions going head-first to make a difference get schmoozed up with fat wallets and suddenly turn unethical doctor prescriptions and insurances into victims." Skip over the society where people aren't able to afford mental health or insulin. Monsanto, Pfiser, or Nestly poison and pillage they pay 3 days worth of work and nobody gets even probation. But if one of them is growing Marijuana to not have seizures LIFE IN PRISON.
Top 20 folks at the top of the company, including the board, should do hard time...
In my opinion, (and I am guessing that a majority of Americans would agree) no company or institution is to big to prosecute or fail. If any one is wondering I think we never should have bailed out the banks or motor companies.
True but it will always happen. They dont care about the little gays
Guys i meant to say sorry
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Drug dealers Publicly authorized...while they are pretending waging a drugwar,,what a joke
The problem is the FDA for allowing such a devastating drug to be prescribed in the first place.
If a corporation is too big to prosecute, then it may be too big to exist.
Its refreshing to see DEA go after big pharma and not the little dealer. Good on em'
$200B revenue and they paid a $150M fine. Why would they ever stop?
13 million fine for a company that makes billions means zero to them
CREAM... Cash Rules Everything Around Me.
It's the FDA that's supposed to hold these companies accountable. A bonus for their CEO for accountability? He allowed the threshold of orders to be bumped up to suit. How much is too much? This is no different than big tobacco but these deaths are acute and devastating to so many people. These companies need to be accountable. At the very least financially because that's all that matters to them is the buck.
McKesson makes Le Chapo look like a street corner dealer.
So how is McKesson supposed to know who the “shady buyers” are?
Will DEA share info on these companies? Probably not.
Bobo is in Colorado. I’m sure she’ll get right on this.
Money is power. Always has been. Always will be. That's why prisons are full of poor people.
If you're scared to go to court you shouldn't be a lawyer.
What they're doing should not be illegal in the first place
Banks and car manufacturers too big to fail and this is sicking. This is not capitalism.
Let’s vote our way out of this mess into another mess
That is a ricco case.
I agree. This is a textbook ricco case, and the DEA is afraid to even attempt to hold them accountable and they are intimidated to go against McKession because they have head-honcho lawyers, and it will take too much time, effort, and resources. It’s so pathetic and disgusting.
I am an Opioid addict after being prescribed 180 10 milligram pure oxy's per month for 7 years. My life was ruined at a time when I could not understand why the drug became necessary just to move from bed. I am clean, but hurt by the knowledge that no one knew outside of pharmaceutical insiders.
😢😢😢😢😢
I went to Europe and got clean in 3 months, without methadone, I was put under coma induced, treatment and detox iv...didn't feel a thing...clean and sober for 13 years
I love that program - EXTREMELY interesting and well done.
Too big to fix.
McKesson = Kingpens
wait so you can choice not to do you job and nothing will happen if you work for the DEA
Excellent reporting. 👍
Our government is the problem ( WE ARE THE PROBLEM) we need to start picking better government officials
I think it's about politicians needing money, from big donors, to stay in office. In 2016, Super PACS spent more on issue ads, than the individual political parties, over a billion dollars.
@@yurei8 what we need to do is get rid of lobbyists and the electoral college and somehow get pharma/big money out of politicians ears so they can listen to the people who actually voted them into their office...but you are right also
taco, vote progressive. Start legislating for the working class.
We don’t get to pick government officials. We get to choose the lesser of two evils. They don’t give up their true colors until in office. People probably don’t even get considered to have their name on the ballot without agreeing to play ball with the big business.
If I sold a couple of baggies of marijuana out of my house the cops would kick my door in 3 in the morning guns blazing.
I have more respect for El Chapo than I do this company.
Why are the doctors themselves not being held accountable for being the "drug pusher" ?
Too much power to deal with.
Can't really believe anything the DEA says, You need to back up what they say independently if possible.
it pays to be a legal drug dealer.
Alcohol prohibition marijuana prohibition... Pain medication prohibition... What else???there are actually people that need pain medication so there's been people for many many years taking it and not becoming highly addicted to it so I think it's a problem in society
I'm very proud of YOU!
They had liars that went to Harvard and Yale
A better form of scumbag
And this is a country of law, the shining light on top of the hill?
78 employees if this criminal company disliked this video.
To this vary day they continue to do that so how can you fight the war on drugs if you are supplying the same drugs your are seizing to other parts of the U.S.
This report helped me write my essay
If they’re too big to prosecute then it’s time to break them down into prosecutable sized businesses. Otherwise, there is no justice.
corporate drug dealers
“God damn the pusher-man” Steppenwolf
Nice work
$200 billion in revenue a year. A $19 million settlement is less than a minor inconvenience to them. Of course they were caught doing the same thing a second time.
Just like mortgage backed securities driving real estate speculation, literally nothing has changed. Both the major political parties are in on the scam as well.
Things That Make You Say Hummmm !!!
The government at its finest.
too rich for jail.
McKesson has recently rebranded as Adapt Health. Seems as if they're trying to bury their involvement.
Oh wow. I had no idea they’ve attempted to rebrand, which is not surprising. Often times, when companies are involved in shady business and are being tainted by scandal and corruption, they will create sister brands with different names, and then move their corruption elsewhere. Or they will have another company acquire them. Just insane.
@@sabrina.natalie So after doing more research on this, I was completely mistaken. Adapt Health acquired McKesson's "Patient Care Solutions" division, which works directly with patients, rather than as a distributor. Though the sale also included a supply contract with McKesson. So basically they just sold the operations side of things to Adapt Health. Very confusing, especially when the employees at these companies give conflicting information to the patients they work with. 🙃
Gasoline floods into our neighborhoods too, but if someone pours it on themselves and lights it.... no one sues Exxon.
Gasoline is not addictive, it has additives.
The DEA has a data base that tracks all production and distribution to even the public & any company, doctor etc. must be licensed by the DEA no DEA license means you can not participate in the Pharma industry. The bottom line the problem is the system including our own government, our own worst enemie.
In this entire video, not one person mentioned the elephant in the room - dirty money and corrupted politicians. Why did not 60 minutes push that line inquiry? All corporations, including corporate media, are in cahoots. MONEY OUT OF POLITICS, NOW!
No!
Big Pharma bills twice as much fit meds towards Medicare then what they bill towards the Veterans Administration Hospitals.
A bill passed by the Congress and Senate , the voting session took place on the wee hours in one of the chambers ( so that C-Span would not record ) , blocked competitive bidding to Medicare procurement administrators. In so many words, Medicare would have to pay inflated prices on various drugs from several drug makers.
I can’t remember whether the bill applied to prescription , compound or therapeutic drugs. In any case, administered by hospitals.
And the kicker.... the bill was championed by no one less than Bill Tauzin (R- LA) , the sleazeball who killed competition at the local phone services , bankrupting dozens of upstart phone companies ( also known as CLECs ). He pocketed big money from big pharmaceutical companies.
Prohibition is the problem and you are trying to avoid the inevitable.
Thank you to the DEA agent
El chapo who. If I was el chapo lawyer this will be my opening and closing argument.
Not going after the company and arresting non violent users is exactly why not only the Rx company is up but also private prisons.
Our government doesn't care! They prove it over and over and over. We the people that work to make this country function always come last.
Too much money, man, just too much money. Can't fight that...
Independent monitor aka empty suit!!!!
If the company is caught again on their watch, does the monitor get prosecuted‽
Time to update this story.
Meanwhile someone is arrested for having one Vicodin in their pocket without their pill bottle carried in the car. Tell me the CIA is not involved it this. Sounds like MK Ultra 2019 edition rolls on
Sherman, more stuff will be coming out soon 😷😷😷🤕🤕😭 #insulin #johnsonAndJohnson #pharmaReps #propofolAtHome
Good thing CBS got consistent on this subjeçt.
The Patriot act, passed in 2001, has a suspicious activity report requirement...Why doesn't DEA set forward a parallel reporting requirement? How hard can that be?
Revenue, $200b per year, fine $13m. They probably spend more in a month on pencils.
And wrote the pencils off as a
tax deduction .
Legalize marijuana.
That DEA director should get a medal.
The GOP is gung ho to eliminate the DEA I’ll bet.
I work in law enforcement but also have had to deal with pain management so I seen both sides of the fight.. the large Shipment quantity to small down could be that one they many sick elders who need there medication and most paint medication prescribed is now 30 days and need a new prescription so I know many pharmacy that will out in larger order to have on hand as if they run out it can be 2-3 days before getting back in stock. Doctor's also need to do multiple drug test pill counts monthly of patients medication and also random pill could throughout the year.
Why is this not a huge story that everyone is upset about? This is where people should be protesting.
PiGo... well.. why? Isn't the "economy" doing great? REPUBLICAN CONGRESS just handed you a "Tax Break" and your president keeps Tweeting DISTRACTIONS and let's not even begin ALL THE CORRUPTION THAT NEEDS TO BE STOPPED, and scandal after scandal.... I mean, you wouldn't want a "Socialist" Congress, wouldn't you? Oh well...as Republicans say... just little sacrifices need to be made.
@@dankom1310 yes true. on the other hand feminsts, liberals, dems keep shouting and resisting for every silly thing instead of focusing on major issues
What's a few thousand people to these guys?
A rounding error on their books for a fine.
UNACCEPTABLE! UNACCEPTABLE!
But they put all their resources on tekashi