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Addiction to heroin and other opiates is a growing problem in the USA, as Presidential hopefuls have learned from Q&A sessions with voters on the campaign trail (previous SN story here).
Tired of encountering dead bodies, the police department of Gloucester, MA (an old city with a large commercial fishing industry) decided to appeal for the public's help in a rather interesting way, via a department Facebook post:
Gotta go make some calls.....
Top 5 Pharmaceutical CEO Salaries:
5. Eli Lilly - John Lechleiter $14.48 million
jlechleiter@lilly.com 317-276-2000
4. Abbott Labs - Miles D. White $17.7 million
miles.d.white@abbott.com 847-937-6100
3. Merck - Kenneth C. Frazier
$25 million + cool private jet.
ken.frazier@merck.com 908-423-1000
2. Johnson & Johnson - Alex Gorsky $20.38 million
ceo@jnj.com 732-524-0400
1. Pfizer - Ian Read $23.3 million
ian.read@pfizer.com 212-573-2323
They're all on Forbes Top 100 CEO salaries as well.
In 2013 The Huffington Post reported that the 11 largest pharmaceutical companies made $711 BILLION in profits in the last decade while their CEO's made a combined $1.57 BILLION in the same period.
Now...don't get mad. Just politely ask them what they are doing to address the opioid epidemic in the United States and if they realize that the latest data shows almost 80% of addicted persons start with a legally prescribed drug that they make. They can definitely be part of the solution here and I believe they will be....might need a little push.
takyon: A newer Facebook post says that Pfizer is in contact with the Gloucester Police Department.
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Sunday September 20 2015, @04:59AM
No one is going blind due to illegal alcohol, at least in America. Where does it happen? Places where it is illegal.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by tathra on Sunday September 20 2015, @05:09AM
not since the 1920s anyway, you know, when authorities were deliberately adulterating ethanol to poison drinkers.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Sunday September 20 2015, @06:32PM
That still happens in the US. It's rare, but there are still folks out there that produce bad moonshine. That's not a function of legality, in places where moonshine is common, you buy based upon the reputation of the seller. Sure, you might be the unlucky sod that winds up going blind, but that's usually avoidable if you've got an understanding of the processes being used and you're dealing with a seller that lives in the commnity.
As far as blindness goes, compared with liver disease, suicide and accident, blindness is a relatively minor problem. And in most cases, it's not even a real problem as long as you're careful about where you get the alcohol from.