| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Legal
USA. ‘Drug Dealers in Lab Coats’
For decades, America has waged an ineffective war on drug pushers and drug lords, from Bronx street corners to Medellin, Colombia, regarding them as among the most contemptible specimens of humanity.
One reason our efforts have failed is we ignored the biggest drug pushers of all: American pharmaceutical companies.
Our policy was: You get 15 people hooked on opioids, and you’re a thug who deserves to rot in hell; you get 150,000 people hooked, and you’re a marketing genius who deserves a huge bonus. (New York Times, Opinion, 18.10.2017)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/opinion/opioid-pharmaceutical-addiction-pain.html