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Health Bulletin: Purdue Pharma

from Happy at CERN by DOCTOR ELLIS

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‘HEALTH BULLETIN: PURDUE PHARMA’

In the 21st century multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical corporations manufacture and market narcotics and highly addictive sedatives. Their operatives manipulate the medical community and lobby among politicians for a ‘pain-free’ America. The producers of the leading commercial ‘gateway’ into addiction, Oxy-Contin, is Purdue Pharmaceuticals. The company was founded by the Sackler family under the leadership of Raymond Sackler and his brothers. They started out with laxatives, but eventually introduced the highly addictive tranquilizer, Valium. In the 1990s, they began pushing the most profitable prescription drug in history, Oxy-Contin. Purdue Pharma set up an aggressive large-scale sales force to convince physicians that their product was not addictive. They paid physician-researchers to publish fraudulent data on the safety of Oxy-Contin. These experts-for-hire in the burgeoning pain industry received huge fees to peddle Purdue’s drug, and sell the notion of American patients enjoying a completely ‘pain free’ existence. Nevertheless, it remains a mystery how the highly-trained medical community could be so easily deceived when even the average street addict was aware of the drugs narcotic nature. The Sackler family’s net worth rose to over $14 billion dollars, while Purdue Pharmaceuticals reaped over $35 billion dollars in profit from Oxy-Contin.

Meanwhile scores of thousands of prescription addicts died each year and millions sunk into addiction,
ill health and degradation, dragging their communities with them. Following Sackler’s example, other pharma billionaires joined in. Opioid pain medication was so cheap to produce and had created its own ever-expanding demand as teenagers raided grandmother’s medicine cabinet in search of narcotics and poor workers lined up at ‘pill mills’. Oxy-Contin and its siblings produced the highest profit margin in pharmaceutical history, far exceeding the so-called “block-buster” drugs.

This totally predictable and preventable devastation eventually led to Purdue Pharmaceuticals being
fined $634.5 million dollars in 2007 for fraudulently covering up the addiction and overdose potential
of Oxy-Contin. However, the political influence of the Sackler family protected their members from any accusation of misconduct or criminal conspiracy. Their influence in political and judicial circles
was unparalleled. Oxy-Contin and other addictive drugs are still being mass produced, and are contributing to the death of over 65,000 workers each year. In response to the crack-down on prescriptions of narcotics, millions of addicts have transitioned to cheap street heroin and the dangerously potent Fentanyl to feed their sickness. Physicians provided the gateway to a life of street addiction, violence and eventually death—while authorities continue to look the other way.

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from Happy at CERN, released August 27, 2018

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DOCTOR ELLIS is a dark musical experiment, a soundtrack to a film that doesn’t exist. Electronic, creepy and atmospheric, the project floated to the surface of the strange waves created by Northern Ontario broadcasting pirates, Radio Konton. Personnel consists of plunderphonic producer Kid Mania, pirate radio selector DJ Deadzone and the Chapman stick artist Jason Brock. ... more

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