and they should. they marketed oxycontin as a non-addictive pain reliever and told doctors to give it to EVERY SINGLE PATIENT WHO HAD ANY KIND OF PAIN WHATSOEVER. the marketing tapes exist as proof (Anthony Bourdain showed one of them in a Massachussetts episode of one of his shows, I think Parts Unknown, and it is SO EVIL it is literally incomprehensible). now, because of the shit show they purposefully created, with depraved indifference to all of the lives they would ruin/destroy/take if you are someone who is in real pain and requires medications to alleviate that real pain, you are treated like a criminal by your doctor, pharmacist, and insurance company (i know first hand and it is a pain in the ass and in it enrages me). people who are literally sick and dying and suffering cannot get relief because of a crisis caused by the pharmaceutical companies (a crisis they made billions on before things got so ugly the government stepped in to stop them).

and all of the white people dying of heroin overdoses because they could no longer get their hands on the oxy they were addicted to are directly the fault of big pharma. i know the country never cared about any opioid or heroin OD epidemic when non-white people were the ones dying. no one showed any empathy or concern about those lives. response to that problem was the war on drugs and prisons filled to the max.

all this being said, i won't hold my breath on big pharma paying one red cent for anything.

Great comment, Christina!

Known Drug Pushers purdue pharma needs to take Responsibility for the deaths (and addictions) they encouraged, perpetrated and profited oh-so-Handsomely from.

Let's make sure our War on Drugs, always popular with the Get Tough on Crime afficianados, also includes those in the Corporate World -- especially when their blatant Evidence Tail indicates they're Guilty as Hell.

Hell, Death Penalty lovers -- let's remove Purdue's golden Charter -- and put a little Fear in those who so willingly (and obviously) would priortize massive Profits over actual Human Lives.

After all, Corps are Peeps, too, aren't they, my friend?

(Imagine if this Crime had been committed by
some gangbangers in some Ghetto somewhere.
How swiftly would Republicans Demand that Justice be meted out?)