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douglas_in_philly t1_ir3j4fi wrote

3 1/2 years seems like a really light sentence to me.

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Bad_Ottertude t1_ir5ibif wrote

Seriously, people are trying to make dealers get life sentences if someone ODs but this guy gets 3.5 years. He's got blood on his hands.

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zoicyte t1_ir5hip8 wrote

not to mention the half million dollar fine seems really, really low.

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justanawkwardguy OP t1_ir33fv7 wrote

It’s a start, now we need to charge the manufacturers

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jersey_girl660 t1_ir47aig wrote

It’s not going to happen unfortunately. This country has no balls when holding corporate America accountable. A small business owner commits 1/1000000 of the crime and gets the book thrown at them harder then the corporate buffs. It’s disgusting

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K3R3G3 t1_ir4dasm wrote

>This country has no balls when holding corporate America accountable

Because the country is Corporate America. Why hold yourself accountable when you can just add to your money pile?

Head of the FDA pushed this stuff through. It was known to be addictive and they said it wasn't. Who gets the $4.1M? Gubmint. They're all in bed together. A big greasy money orgy.

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gearheadsub92 t1_ir5m1wl wrote

Can someone who downvoted this please explain why they disagree?

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fastedzo t1_ir3ziy4 wrote

The Sackler family are still multi billionaires and none of them have spent a second in jail. They hid most of their personal wealth, Purdue pharmaceuticals filed for bankruptcy protection in 2019. Their names got dragged through the mud, but overall they walked away pretty unscathed for the heinous crimes they committed. They interviewed Richard Sackler and asked if he felt any responsibility for the opioid crisis and he said one word, no. They literally got millions of people hooked on opioids by paying off the FDA for a bullshit pill label that stated it was nonaddictive and flooding the country with sales people. It’s really fucked up what they did, they knew exactly what they were doing. and did not care one bit. Their name used to be on a lot of art museums and charitable organizations in New York. Now their name should be associated with Kensington

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AbsentEmpire t1_ir63ckv wrote

The incestuous relationship pharmaceuticals have with the FDA is a massive problem that directly lead to the opioid crisis and the lack of any accountability laws is how people like the Sacklers get away with what otherwise is blantent false advertising, drug dealing, and murder.

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CheeseburgerLover911 t1_ir48xqy wrote

If you’re wondering why a pharmacist was locked up, here’s the relevant bit from the article

A news release from U.S. Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero said the pharmacy “filled prescriptions for wholesale quantities of high-dose oxycodone despite obvious alterations to the prescriptions and other red flags indicating that the drugs were not for a legitimate medical purpose.”

As opioid use became epidemic, the pharmacy had established itself as a “no questions asked” business for prescriptions for oxycodone and other addictive drugs, the release noted. By 2016, Verree was “the largest purchaser of oxycodone among retail pharmacies in the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.”

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electric_ranger t1_ir4z9km wrote

I am gobsmacked by the volume of pills they must have been moving to be the most in the state.

Reading Dopesick and Empire of Pain really drove home how evil the Sacklers are. My thoughts on the appropriate course of action with them would get me banned.

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AbsentEmpire t1_ir63ks9 wrote

His prison sentence is a joke, should have been locked up for the rest of his life.

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KenzoWap t1_ir37s3s wrote

Good. F that pos poisoning our community.

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Stigs84 t1_ir3qb5j wrote

I used to work as a headhunter specifically recruiting pharmacists…I know so many pharmacists who got arrested for this, it’s crazy. All that schooling for nothing because they lose their licenses and go to prison

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eer1chill t1_ir4nt64 wrote

Really, that’s an interesting story, you were a headhunter and you recruited how many pharmacists that now sit in jail and lost their licenses? How many is “so many” the pharmacists who lost licenses and have done time?

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1-2-chachacha t1_ir559f3 wrote

Well they said they 'know' of them, not necessarily recruited them.

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eer1chill t1_ir5740c wrote

It’s quite the statement. I would love to know how many actual pharmacists that were handing out these scripts actually prosecuted or spent time in jail.

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jimgillespie t1_ir42bci wrote

Sigh. I used to use this place all the time as a kid and teenager. I hate that a place so drilled into my memories is associated with the Sackler's in this way.

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BabaBrody t1_ir41rkf wrote

That's wild to read. Earlier this year, I was working for a company that used Verree for all of their med fills (not for painkillers) and I talked to Mitch 2-3x a week for different order needs. Never once got a whiff that there was any looming issues or possible jail time.

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ReactionProcedure t1_ir3je85 wrote

Should be a capital crime.

As well as the manufacturer.

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Cilantroduction t1_ir581oj wrote

And those of us in Philly get to see the fallout on the streets and trains and neighborhoods. Either dead family or the junkies out and about, defecating in public, begging, stealing and honestly, an ENTIRE generation of people either died or are now heroin addicts..Sackler family, the doctors and all the pharmacists who enabled and cultivated this man-made drug problem should ALL be in jail. 3.5 years? No, he should be in for 35 years. Scumbag. I have worked in pharmacy as a tech, and I have seen many instances of real, ethical pharmacists tell someone with a fake or altered script to talk to the police or take a walk, while keeping their fake script.

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Glystopher t1_ir6da5x wrote

They better not ban Kratom because you can’t get pain meds anymore.

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