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  1. @maggiemaybe
    Last night on MSNBC, I saw LA Times journalist Keegan Hamilton, interviewed by Paola Ramos (subbing for Alicia Menendez), say it right out loud: China and Mexico don't have the massive substance addiction casualties that we find in the US: they also have universal, single payer health care.
    msnbc.com/american-voices/watc

    #selfmedicating #fentanyl #OpiodCrisis #addiction #captialismisantitheticaltohealthcare.

  2. "The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Thursday against AmerisourceBergen, one of the country’s largest pharmaceutical distributors, accusing the company of knowingly distributing opioids that were later resold illegally."

    #OpiodCrisis #opiod

    nytimes.com/2022/12/29/us/poli

  3. The team at STAT picked this NYT piece on the opiod crisis as one of the top stories of the year.

    Surprising absolutely no one, McKinsey made a buck from it

    'Opana’s manufacturer, the pharmaceutical company Endo, had scaled back promotion of the drug. But months later, the company abruptly changed course, refocusing resources on the drug by assigning more sales representatives.

    The push was known internally as the Sales Force Blitz — and it was conducted with consultants at McKinsey & Company, who had been hired by Endo to provide marketing advice about its chronic-pain medicines and other products.'

    #Opiod #OpiodCrisis

    nytimes.com/2022/06/29/busines

  4. A year on, how has Wu done on Mass. and Cass?
    bostonglobe.com/2022/11/22/met

    Grateful to @wutrain and the folks at Pine Street and Shattuck for their heroic efforts; hopeful to see fewer needles in Franklin Park, and fewer services clustered in Roxbury, Dorchester, etc.

    #Boston #MayorWu #Homelessness #OpiodCrisis