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Getting Us Hooked: How Big Pharma's Greed Fueled the Latest Heroin Epidemic
Getting Us Hooked How Big Pharma's Greed Fueled the Latest Heroin Epidemic Author:Matthew Morris We all know corporate greed has and will continue to run rampant in America, it just seems to be a fact of life. Another fact of life these days is the frightening Heroin Epidemic that is sweeping our nation. I am an unfortunate statistic of that, as I am a Heroin addict that has been fortunate enough to recover. This book includes parts of m... more »y story, but it's purpose is to tell an entirely different kind of story. Getting Us Hooked paints the picture of how Big Pharma, and the rampant greed behind Oxycontin led us to a massive Opioid Epidemic, including the more recent explosion in Heroin abuse. Since it made it's debut in 1995, Oxycontin and other pain-killers have sunk their teeth into millions of Americans. Meanwhile ,the companies that shoved this pill down our throats have made billions of dollars. Despite how public their screw up became, there has still been little accountability. The consequences of this greed have been catastrophic, the latest being mass overdoses in the year of 2016 due to powerful designer drugs cut into street heroin. In October 2016 there were over 88 overdoses in one Florida city alone, and mass overdoses have been happening all over the country in the last year. Can this be traced back to Big Pharma? Read on and find out. Join me as we explore the details of this crisis, and I follow the powder residue of the recent overdoses all the way back to Purdue Pharmaceutical's sophisticated marketing campaign. Whether you have been directly affected by this crisis or not, my book will be an eye-opener, and it may rile you up a bit when you see just how negligent corporations have been in giving us the Heroin Epidemic that is killing our citizens.« less