Profits over the importance of the health and welfare of people is what Big Pharma does best.

In a paper published in The Lancet, Stanford researchers estimated that if no new action is taken to address the opioid epidemic, there will be 1.22 million opioid deaths between 2020 and 2029—a figure nearly doubling the total number of deaths that have occurred in the last two decades.

Recently Native American tribes reached a 590 million dollar opioid settlement with Johnson & Johnson.

+ A $26 billion settlement agreement was also reached with several states and local governments. MAKING THIS THE 2nd biggest settlement of its kind in U.S. history behind the tobacco deal in the 1990s.

Society let Big Pharma make decisions about health and they put profits over people.