[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.

[RunItUpTheGut]

The biggest thing congress should do is pass laws that prohibit big pharma from the buying of new drugs that can potentially cure diseases that have no cure and keep them from being sold to the general public.
We need a few more Jonas Salks in this world who doesn't let big pharma buy them out of a potentially life saving cure of certain things.
Can you imagine what a cure for cancer, or just certain types of cancer could do to there payroll? If chemo was no longer needed, theyd go bankrupt.