The Urgency of Drug Policy Reform
Posted on October 23, 2020
By Thaddeus Camlin, PsyD The urgent need for drug policy reform cannot be understated. In the past few weeks, two stories about drug crime shone yet another spotlight on the lunacy of U.S. drug policy. Oxycontin manufacturer Purdue Pharma plead guilty to three felony charges and incurred an $8 billion dollar fine for actions contributing to the deaths of nearly half a million Americans. No owners or executives from Purdue Pharma, including the Sackler Family in charge, will serve any jail time (at least for now). Many heralded the decision as justice served to the big pharma corporate conglomerate notorious for its strategically misleading information about the addictive properties of its potent opiate cash cow, oxycontin. Meanwhile, a smaller story arose out of Georgia where Sa...
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