ForkBombGoBoom t1_j2arobm wrote
Reply to comment by powersurge in US sues Conshohocken-based AmerisourceBergen, saying it fueled opioid epidemic | 6abc.com by boundfortrees
Without distributors, patients who are prescribed medicine can't get it. They vet pharmacies and report suspicious transactions to the DEA, and severed relationships with 4 of the 5 pharmacies the DEA cited. This is accordance with federal law. What more should they have done?
powersurge t1_j2b6o52 wrote
AmerisourceBergen surely has a role to play here. They distributed to pharmacies and towns enough at times to give each resident of the town like a 100 pills. I expect a corporation that distributes drugs that everyone knew could be deadly to be monitoring that distribution. They didn't. They seem to have only responded to government mandated requests for information.
GreenAnder t1_j2blq04 wrote
“If we stop the money people from making money we all die” is a statement that hopefully isn’t true one day
ForkBombGoBoom t1_j2buo2n wrote
People need the pain meds. Do you want them to get them or just suffer? Or is there some magical fairy that will deliver the meds to the pharmacy and make sure they aren't doing something shady?
Live_For_Love t1_j2dl5jf wrote
Unfortunately, pain patients are already being left to suffer. As a pain patient with severe pain from valid and diagnosed diseases, I still don’t get adequate pain medication because doctors are terrified to prescribe.
ForkBombGoBoom t1_j2dmso7 wrote
My stepfather needed opiates for pain for a long time, and getting them prescribed and approved by insurance was often a struggle.
Glystopher t1_j2ewy9q wrote
Makes me hate the DEA, but I already have a problem with law enforcement, have hated cops since I was a teen.
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