[The Urban Sombrero]

Congress is focusing on more resources for rehab, but Big Pharma, and Perdue Pharmaceuticals (who makes Oxycontin) and the makers of Percocet are challenging the new CDC guidelines, guidelines that strongly encourage doctors to write lower doseage strengths and to use other non-addicting pain medications. There is an economic morality out there that says the only responsibility of a corporation is to increase profits. Given that 78 Americans die each day from opiod-related overdose, surely right and left can agree that Big Pharma and the blue suits they employ to lobby seem to not care much about places like eastern Kentucky where addiction to opiates is doing so much damage to individuals, families, and communities.