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The Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act was passed in 2016 to improve enforcement around prescription drug abuse and diversion. In actuality, the law raised the standard that the DEA needed to prove in order to crack down on a drug company's pain pill distribution, making it more difficult for them to enforce fines against the companies.
The chief architect of the law, the investigation found,  was Rep. Tom Marino of Pennsylvania, a Republican whom Trump nominated to lead the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, a position commonly referred to as the nation's "drug czar."
Marino introduced the bill in 2014, after which it went through years of back and forth, delays, and opposition from the DEA. A version of the bill became law in 2016. By that point, neither the DEA nor the Justice Department objected to the bill, though the DEA had fought against it for years. 
 
The Post called it "the crowning achievement of a multifaceted campaign by the drug industry to weaken aggressive DEA enforcement efforts against drug distribution companies that were supplying corrupt doctors and pharmacists who peddled narcotics to the black market." 
Lobbying groups, including the groups representing drugmakers, retail pharmacies, and drug distributors, spent more than $106 million in support of the bill, the Post found.

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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker

http://www.businessinsider.com/60-minutes-drug-industry-worked-against-dea-fight-opioid-epidemic-investigation-2017-10

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The Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act was passed in 2016 to improve enforcement around prescription drug abuse and diversion. In actuality, the law raised the standard that the DEA needed to prove in order to crack down on a drug company's pain pill distribution, making it more difficult for them to enforce fines against the companies.
The chief architect of the law, the investigation found,  was Rep. Tom Marino of Pennsylvania, a Republican whom Trump nominated to lead the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, a position commonly referred to as the nation's "drug czar."
Marino introduced the bill in 2014, after which it went through years of back and forth, delays, and opposition from the DEA. A version of the bill became law in 2016. By that point, neither the DEA nor the Justice Department objected to the bill, though the DEA had fought against it for years. 
 
The Post called it "the crowning achievement of a multifaceted campaign by the drug industry to weaken aggressive DEA enforcement efforts against drug distribution companies that were supplying corrupt doctors and pharmacists who peddled narcotics to the black market." 
Lobbying groups, including the groups representing drugmakers, retail pharmacies, and drug distributors, spent more than $106 million in support of the bill, the Post found.

Vive capitalisme!

Also continuing Trump's brilliant strategy to make sure the entire government is run by people who are determined to work against the interests that they are supposed to be serving.

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

FR
Sorry if this is a slight derail but ...

According to media reports we receive here, the opioid problem is currently the US's single biggest drug problem with dozens dying daily from overdoses of prescription drugs. The crisis is said to be most acute in places like PA and West Virginia, where communities that have relied for decades on coal and steel are devastated by the severe downturns in those industries.

This should cause those who believe that drug taking is a personal moral failure to think again. In this instance, the link between economic devastation, failed and failing communities and drug consumption/addiction/-related deaths couldn't be clearer.

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker

http://www.businessinsider.com/60-minutes-drug-industry-worked-against-dea-fight-opioid-epidemic-investigation-2017-10

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The Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act was passed in 2016 to improve enforcement around prescription drug abuse and diversion. In actuality, the law raised the standard that the DEA needed to prove in order to crack down on a drug company's pain pill distribution, making it more difficult for them to enforce fines against the companies.
The chief architect of the law, the investigation found,  was Rep. Tom Marino of Pennsylvania, a Republican whom Trump nominated to lead the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, a position commonly referred to as the nation's "drug czar."
Marino introduced the bill in 2014, after which it went through years of back and forth, delays, and opposition from the DEA. A version of the bill became law in 2016. By that point, neither the DEA nor the Justice Department objected to the bill, though the DEA had fought against it for years. 
 
The Post called it "the crowning achievement of a multifaceted campaign by the drug industry to weaken aggressive DEA enforcement efforts against drug distribution companies that were supplying corrupt doctors and pharmacists who peddled narcotics to the black market." 
Lobbying groups, including the groups representing drugmakers, retail pharmacies, and drug distributors, spent more than $106 million in support of the bill, the Post found.

Vive capitalisme!

Also continuing Trump's brilliant strategy to make sure the entire government is run by people who are determined to work against the interests that they are supposed to be serving.

2016 - who was president then

Oh THATS RIGHT, Obama signed that

(Doesn't matter, the howlers have to blame Trump) (and capitalism)

A large part of the problem is also the Democrat's no-border policy, that the president is currently working on. Mexican drug lords are bringing in all of the heroin and other drugs (prescription drugs included) that they please.

Do the howlers care about that, or are they just howling hysterical nonsense in hope that something will stick against the current president

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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick

What opioid crisis? The fake one being created by the government and media?

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ORIGINAL: MercTech

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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick
What opioid crisis? The fake one being created by the government and media?

The best I can tell from a bit of online digging is that the rate of overdose on opioids has gone up since it became easier to synthesize fentanyl instead of smuggling in heroin.
Add in a bit of statistically unsubstantiated FUD that prescribing opioids for chronic pain is directly linked to addiction and you have a readily manufactured "epidemic" to use for scare headlines. The deaths due to opioid overdose track right along with the appearance of fentanyl into the market.
Fentanyl is about 50 times more powerful in a milliliter to milliliter comparison making improper dosage for oral or injectable versions horridly easy. The prescription versions of Fentanyl are most commonly patch (the pain patch works well for rheumatoid arthritis) and sub lingual (you spray under the tongue and it absorbs - I wonder if they have it with a breath freshener mix?). The injectable version is predominantly used in a very dilute solution for IV anesthetic.
Have a solid undergraduate level organic chemistry skill? Have some spare change to order a copy of a scientific paper? Home fentanyl production may be an up and coming work from home business. And if you get the dosage off; you aren't likely to get customers able to come back and complain.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232768049_A_Convenient_One-Pot_Synthesis_of_Fentanyl
Making the draconian controls on opiates more stringent when the problem is illicit labs rather than diversion of legal supplies is silly if not outright insane waste of time, manpower, and public funds. It would be like the banning of amphetamine based prescriptions for weight loss got rid of all the illicit meth labs, right?

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After arresting the two men, East Liverpool Police Officer Chris Green was winding down his shift in the police station's break room when one of his colleagues pointed out he had something on his uniform. Green wiped the white powder off with his bare hands.
Within minutes, he wasn't feeling well.
"I started talking weird. I slowly felt my body shutting down. I could hear them talking, but I couldn't respond. I was in total shock," Green told the Morning Journal of Lisbon, Ohio.
Green, who had worn gloves while searching the suspects' car, collapsed on the floor. Police believe he was experiencing an overdose.

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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker

Oh I guess all of these other drug stories mean that the pharmaceutical industry is totally innocent here.
Logic strikes again!

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker

Oh I guess all of these other drug stories mean that the pharmaceutical industry is totally innocent here.
Logic strikes again!

That debate strategy is called a straw man fallacy

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The very best leftists can do, in any give debate (for the most part)