Pharma execs used strip clubs, broke FDA laws to boost opioid sales
A former sales VP for a pharmaceutical company was sentenced to prison tells 60 Minutes he bribed doctors to prescribe fentanyl drugs. Bill Whitaker reports.
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There are people in prison who are serving longer sentences for selling weed. 5 1/2 years? That's a corrupt legal system right there.
There are people with longer sentences for just possessing weed
I'm a former prosecutor. NO ONE is getting 5 1/2 years for "selling weed". Slinging it from an minivan with 30 trash bags full, maybe. Don't exaggerate with hyperbole.
Selling degeneracy should be illegal. Don't bring that non sense into this.
@@KittredgeRitter big pharma execs started the opium epidemic. They hurt far more people than any drug dealer and got more people hooked.
That's a stupid comparison. Pharma should be criticised by itself.
Meanwhile Cops were busy busting Reggie and Pookie for $20 weed bags.
Lol, RIGHT!!
PRISON INDUSTRY IS ALL ABOUT MONEY FOR HUMAN STOWAGE...its the" Law of Admirality", Law of the sea...its the yellow fringe around the flag...Stowage is YOU., BRITIAN (means Covenant) owns America....Secreatary of State works for the Bank of England..not some department at the Corporate white house....So, you will wake up, and you will see...those that live in lala land, have no consciousness...dont play that game...it is offworld.
If its ages- remember that jesus said he would be with you through the ages.. that includes "stowage" Getting to the center of that maze is worth it but dangerous af.
Or they are busting reggie hitting the pookie
thats to funny right
I find it weird how no one is burning down these factories, the homes of these executives, the offices of these places. They've successfully caused people to turn their outrage against themselves and their own communities. They would be more inclined to change things if they felt at risk, for their money, their homes, their lives.
That’s exactly what I think of the sackler family. They feel really untouchable since they’re billionaires
Burning down peoples private homes is unacceptable. Otherwise, I agree with you.
cuz they're not psychopathic lunatics like someone here, maybe?
Also VIctor, your "summary" of the situation is so laughably simplistic it's sad. Honestly, if only life were as simple as your little mental models.
@@Me97202 Burning down homes? Beat them up, throw them in jail, confiscate their private homes.
My son Anthony Gilmore would have been 32 years old this month . He overdosed on illegal drugs. R.I.P. Son . your missed every day. You will never be forgotten. Love your loving family.🙏
🙏🏼 so sorry this happened. Rest In Peace, Anthony Gilmore.
God bless you
SO SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS !!
So sorry for your loss🙏
this vidio is about legal drugs, perscription !
Prescription drug salesmen are basically just everyday drug dealers with expensive suits and nice offices
Protected by the law*
And it's legal...
Everyday drug dealera are just prescription drug salesmen who have not been hired by large corporations so they start their own business, they work for themselves. No salary, but they keep the profits and re-invest, as opposed to working on commision.
Right
Selling is fictional.
The head of the snake is usually in Washington D.C. Someone in Congress gets paid by these companies to let them do what they do.
Another instance of who runs Congress.
you're forgetting the aliances between criminal bankers on Wall street who fund both big pharma, greedy insurance and hospitals, the AMA, and simeltaneously FUND every politician. the HEad of the SNAKE are the private equity bankers
🔔🔨🏆
@The Truth the lines are blurred. all are evil demons
@The Truth If you think corruption is unique to one side of the aisle, you might look into a city in the northeast US called New York, NY and sometimes referred to as Manhattan. I do appreciate your devotion to truth and goodness and hope you will find more peace and less anger.
WOW. I know a 38 year old man who works for a dry cleaners I own who spent 5 1/2 years in State prison for selling weed. Why? Because he wouldn't rat out his friends and family who were in the same business but mostly because he had a crappy attorney he paid 22,000 for representation. Our criminal justice system is so corrupt.
Absolutely correct 💯
but he knew it was against the law ,right ?
@@EDD519 it was then. Not now. He was just a black man ahead of his time.
@@EDD519The pharmaceutical companies know what they’re doing is illegal too but they just pay everyone off and rake in billions. They know the fines won’t even be noticed compared with the obscene profits.
You own things or are marketed as the owner?
The saddest thing about this case is that after aiding in the death of probably millions of people, they were ultimately taken down because of insurance fraud. Smh
Yep. It was costing the insurance companies money. They are probably the ones who pushed for the investigation. Then you have the thousands of people in prison because they were pushed into an addiction.
This fiction is sad?
Its almost like sales and medical treatment shouldnt go together
Medication should be government produced. Would fix all the problems. Also the scam prices.
Ther all Crkheds trying to make that money
Good point
Fck medical corruption
@@socrates_the_great6209 No, not at all. Those are the last people on earth we should get medication from. That is insanity! Look at how the CDC failed us during COVID, as well as our then President, who would come up with ridiculously stupid ideas to fight off COVID.
These people should be treated the same way they treat common drug dealers. I’m a brain tumor survivor and these people disgust me. When I went to the doctor with headaches rather then taking it seriously investigating the cause of my headache they simply said it’s a migraine and pushed hardcore pain meds of me. I almost died because they ignored what I told them. I kept telling them I was in pain and something was horribly wrong. It wasn’t until I passed out one day that my tumor was found. I later found out my doctor had missed a number of patients brain tumors because he pushed pain pills.
I'm so sorry that you had to go through that. I hope that you are doing well today. God bless 🙏
Terrible
I’m sorry. Though even without pain meds most doctors would only do a superficial investigation and slap you on the back.
Sorry you went through that...hope you get better ...Diet is your medicine ...JUICING vegetables helps a lot!!
They absolutely suck. They want to regurgitate what they learn to pass boards but utterly lack any critical thinking skills lol. The stupidest smart people with insane work ethics - an overall waste of existence and potential doctors are
Recently left the Pharma industry for ethical reasons and after watching this, glad I did. Learnt so much from this.
I used to ride dirt bikes and I had a horrible accident ( which was epic ) and I was given oxycontin and I became addicted. The dr never tried to lower the dose to get me off or have me go to a drug addiction clinic. He just stopped giving them to me. I didn't know what was going on and friends were like dude you're addicted. I ended up buying off the street and went to heroin. I lost my job, my house. I was homeless. However I just stopped. I died for a week. I'm now a truck driver and have everything I lost. Addiction is 100% mental. I now have a house in Mexico with my wife and every now and again buy opiates from pharmacies in Mexico, however I use them when I know I need em. I never use drugs on the road and never will let myself become an addict.
Straight up drug dealers with no feelings.
Nothing new. Been happening for many many years.
Much worse. Druggies at least know what they are taking and the risk.
This reminds me if the famous Dave Chapelle skit when the street drug dealer Tron switches places with white collar criminal and they show you the vast difference of how both criminals are treated through the system from the first police encounter to sentencing it was incredible and now here it is!
fif!
The skit where he plays Bush and slips up about the war is for oil. Dave is the best
"We wouldn't wanna embarass me in front of my community"
Fizzif
Correct that's why Dave chappelle is a true comic points out the hypcracy .
I got a partner serving 8 years for slinging some weed to get his kids Christmas presents. TF? 5 years being a top dog?
😥 smh
America is broken.
In 2005, I worked for Big Pharma as a telemarketer & we offered Dr.s dinners, vacations, & medical tools to entice the Dr.s. Now, this practice is illegal. Love 60 Minutes! The best!✌
Yep! And Politicians have their greedy hands in it all!
Do you think thats non-fiction?
Imagine only getting 5 years for decimating the core of this country.
Meanwhile the weed man is serving hard time for selling a dime bag...smh
People still wonder why our military protects poppy plants in Afghanistan and why the most of the street drugs are around our Air Force Bases.
The people who orchestrated this crime are not the ones getting jail time punishment.
An getting out of prison and still being filthy rich. People like that you know have money in offshore accounts. Prolly buried somewhere. Put into others people's names. When your talking billions. Its sickening
Meanwhile my uncle John gets 20 years for selling weed to make ends meet to pay for mommies Cancer treatments. Soft divorces him and takes his kids away
I'm a chronic pain patient, and I have deep suspicions about one of my doctors. I want pharma companies to pay me for the damage they did to my body. I wasn't getting relief and my doctor kept pushing higher doses. My mental and physical abilities had declined so much that I finally said I'd had enough and needed weened off. Then I was weened off at a dangerous rate and was discharged from the practice. 5 1/2 years in prison for this behavior?? They murdered thousands.
They murdered a whole generation of people
We're you complaining when he was uping your mg or only when they cut you down and cut you off ?
@@mauricejackson6894 Considering I was the one who made the decision to be weaned off instead of continuing to take more and more, what do you think?
Patients are fictional.
Wow. That’s a real eye opener. It makes it much easier to see what is going on around us every day. Seriously greedy evil people. It needs to be fixed.
This sounds like the pharmaceutical version of Wolf on WallStreet
My dad had a doctor in Vegas who prescribed thousands of those lollipops. After he died I remember putting about a 1000 in a 55 gallon trashbag. His doctor is in prison. Dr. Holper accidentally killed someone important enough to prosecute him. He killed a judge with fentanyl. It only took 10 years after my dad died from him to go to jail. My dad just had a bad shoulder.
What year was this?
Was that the judge from Henderson Nevada I've heard about? (Needless to say, my deepest condolences for the loss of your father)
@@samwindmill8264yes it was . It was the same doctor.
@@futchobishh3929my dad died in 09 and I think the judge died in 18
Doctors are fictional.
Now people who REALLY NEED pain meds after surgery, broken bones, accidents, etc...can’t get a decent pain management because doctors don’t want to risk their license.
Doctors and even pain management specialists refuse to prescribe opioids even though I've tried every other drug through the years to no effect. Been sick at age 15. Just turned 30. No one will help and I've been told by 13+ pain doctors or pain clinics that I wasn't worth them potentially lose their license over CDC guidelines that are wrongfully being enforced as law and doctors wrongfully raided. So suicides are skyrocketing. I've applied for assisted suicide in Switzerland. I get reverse age discrimination. These medicines help millions of people. The junkies use illegal heroin and fentanyl, not prescription opioids.
Dude yes!!!! I had a csection and basically looked like a drug addict begging for pain relief
Exactly, it sucks so much. Even worse companies that make meds like Duragesic....are now not making them
That is now the dirty secret few will talk about and the death toll from under medicated people with out of control pain is the next chapter of the same story.
My own doctors told me, “We have a whole wall of painkillers to help you.” Last year when I saw my pain management doctors I was told that they would not treat my Lupus Or Fibromyalgia with opioids. Or your arthritis in your spine. Or your broken leg or your broken finger or Shingles.
Thanks for leading me into a 20 year opioid addiction at the age of 14 when I was ejected from the bed of a truck at 65mph.
Addiction is fiction.
The sad thing is now patients that NEED pain mediation are getting denied because Dr's are scared to prescribe any type of narcotic. Situations like this always end the same. Innocent people end up suffering.
Spot on. And now Fenatyl hit the streets too.
Socrates_The_Great, you mean carfentanyl cooked in a Mexican barn?
yup
@@TheHobade Its rarely carfentanyl. Mexicans cant even cook carfent.
It's pretty clear that chronic pain patients are better off without opioids most of the time though. Purdue started the movement to prescribe opioids longterm.
Off label promotion and prescribing for various "legal drugs" have been out of control since the 90's. The drug dealer pharmaceuticals reps and their street level dealer doctors have abused the public trust with virtual impunity. Meanwhile during the "war on drugs" citizens have faced long prison sentences for lesser crimes.
When we know that they know the science proves drug abuse is hard coded in the first three years of life. They can't call it a war on drugs anymore it's a war on abuse victims and all of society by making the problem so much worse.
So true! And the off label prescriptions include powerful drugs for young children for focus in school.
Not anymore, the doctors are now scared to give patients that need narcotics the drugs that they need because they could lose their license.
Prescribing is fictional.
As a health care provider for the last 20 years and I completely remember when we had to attend A LOT of education re: pain. No one brought up addiction. Only controlling pain. Now we have swung so far the other way that true people in pain cannot receive the treatment they need! Sad 😞
Doctors and even pain management specialists refuse to prescribe opioids even though I've tried every other drug through the years to no effect. Been sick at age 15. Just turned 30. No one will help and I've been told by 13+ pain doctors or pain clinics that I wasn't worth them potentially lose their license over CDC guidelines that are wrongfully being enforced as law and doctors wrongfully raided. So suicides are skyrocketing. I've applied for assisted suicide in Switzerland. I get reverse age discrimination. These medicines help millions of people. The junkies use illegal heroin and fentanyl, not prescription opioids.
Kelsey K I’m very sorry for the pain you are suffering. There is no easy answer but I pray that you never have to turn to illicit pain drugs. So very sad. Truly I pray for a cure.
@No Onespecial Yes, the cultural values seesaw, go in cycles. With a modicum of care, a see saw can be balanced, but that's not what's happening.
@@kelseyk530 Please don't blame the so called "junkies" as you call them. I was once a hardworking person who got a few scripts from a Dr I trusted for intense pain after surgery and it turned into a decade long pain pill addiction.
You are part of the problem for 20 years
Uhhhhh, ladies and gentlemen we have an announcement. We'd like to congratulate DRUG'S for winning the War on Drugs.
That joke is so old it's not even funny.
Yes. All those documentaries focus on how pharma companies created the addiction problem by misleading the public about the potencial risks of opioids, but they never talk about who created the death problem. Yes, big pharma created a bunch of addicts, but it's also true that overdose deaths increased massively only when the government cut people off of their clean, regulated supply, and subjected them to the street poisoned supply. As Andrew Sullivan points out, "if it was a huge, well-intended mistake to create this army of addicts, it was an even bigger one to cut them off from their supply." In 2011, when the crackdown on opioid prescriptions was beginning, oxycodone was the number one killer, with 5,587 deaths. In 2017, after the crackdown, there were 28,466 deaths from fentanyl or similar synthetic opioids. From 1982 to 1995, Dr. John Marks prescribed controlled doses of medical-grade heroin for hundreds of addicts. By doing that, he reduced the overdose deaths between his patients to zero. Switzerland solved it's heroin crisis with their national prescription heroin program. Swizz heroin addicts live normal lives, with jobs and families, because they have acess to a clean, steady supply. As long as the government keep following the path of prohibition, tens of thousands of Americans will keep dying every year from the street supply poisoned with fentanyl
Just why I got out of the medical field, “IT PAYS TO KEEP AMERICA SICK”!!!
Big money honey
Medicare won’t pay for a miraculous bone-building drug used by athletes, Forteo, but it will pay for lengthy hip-fracture rehab. Go figure.
Hi Quinn I’m Quinn too! I agree with you the money is in keeping people sick
Did u get a vaccine now tho?
100% agree
Now they need to throw the Sackler family in prison.
Prisons are fictional.
We help fund these pharmaceutical companies with our tax dollars for their research. Then they sell it back to us at crazy prices.
Companies are fictional.
The love of money is the root of this evil.
I was a combat medic in Iraq. They used to give us fentanyl lollipops for our pain relief for our combat casualties. The idea was you'd tie it to their fingers, have them put it in their mouth, then when they pass out, the limp weight of their arm would cause the lollipop to fall out of their mouth. I'm glad we switched back to morphine.
Do go on, your story has no ending yet
You were a fictional thing?
The USA government was also on the take
I wonder if the FDA, in this case, was"sleeping with the enemy".
Of course they do. Politicians only make about 180,000 dollars a year except for the president and a couple others. How else do you think they're getting their money
Gary Webb
No doubt
People still wonder why our military protects poppy plants in Afghanistan and why the most of the street drugs are around our Air Force Bases.
damn thats deep ;(
Great Falls,MT?
@Jessica Robinson NJ
@John Garrett tompkins park.... you cant find dope there no more. maybe avenue D . but harlems my spot i dont want to put streets on here
John Garrett good for you brother. It’s been a struggle for me since I was medically retired from the army ...first the oxy then you know the story . I don’t blame anyone I choice the wrong way to cope from the psychical and mental wounds...btw you would wish there was fentanyl...since the corrana virus dope fell off I am On my way! Back to the bx from Miami now
Sober since 5-10-2015 from the legal drug alcohol. The more I learn about Sobriety the more I discover just how bad a lot of people places and things are in this world 🌎 and yet I have hope for humanity ❤️🤍💙
Alcohol is the only drug you must apologize for simply because you don’t consume it. “Sorry, I don’t drink.” Let that sink in a minute.
Finally...someone agrees with me. Alcohol is a drug! It can alter your mind / destroy marriages / lives, etc. As for me...I don't say sorry - but I hear what you are saying.
My mom was 58 years old when she passed away, she was on 32 different medications, she didn't have cancer she didn't have any type of weird disease, she had back pain from a car accident. The coroner said she died of natural causes. They said nothing of the thirty two different pills in her system.
@@frankwestphal8532 I agree with you. A little skepticism goes a long way. Many drugs that MDs prescribe are not really helping the patient, rather, they are helping the drug manufacturing companies stay profitable. Opioids are really no different, that way, than any of the other drugs. When I say opioids should be legalized for sale between adults over age 16, I am not saying people should take them liberally. I think they should be used sparingly and with the knowledge that they have risks associated with their use.
@@frankwestphal8532 You are right. And every one of us has access to the information; all we need to do is educate ourselves. My dad has only night school certification education, and he went and got information on how to REVERSE HIS DIABETES instead of drug himself to death. That was over 20 years ago; he is now a fairly healthy 82. For everything, he researches for himself. He’s had a mild heart episode, cancer x2, and he doesn’t blindly do what the doctors say. Doctors are just practicing medicine. Practicing.
@@annecaulder9495 you're making a huge generalization. I had severe epilepsy seizures for years, but I had brain surgery and it cured me, been seizure free for 10 years now.
That is shocking. My parents generation believe everything their doctor tells them,I have always found it amazing how willing they are to take ridiculous cocktails of pills,with no tangible benefits! Sorry about your Mum.
I'm so sorry for your loss and hope you can hold onto your good memories of her.
Sounds just like Purdue Phar. with Oxycontin and the Sackler family nothing different!
Absolutely. But what about genuine pain-patients who don't abuse ? We know that minorities don't receive pain-control the way whites do. Our community suffers out-of-remedy. However, this IS outrageous !
No seriously sounds exactly like Purdue, that girl con-ing the insurance companies sounds exactly like the one they taped hustling Oxycontin.
@@maebandy That's because it was. They were created when the PAIN MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST was created. Special tools for the new category. OC 80 were 16.Percocets in 1 pill. Nobody died from 5 or 10mg Percocet. 80mg is psycho. Janseen almost got su-fentanyl sublingual on the market. There were 11 types of fentanyls when I last looked at 10 years ago from my physician grandads pharmacist who taught me to read. The strongest was spelled carfentinil and is veterinary for horse and elephants. It was 11,000 x stronger than morphine. They recently tried Duvia su-fentanyl. Some little 🐣complained. Big time. Only good for nuke attack aftermath outside hospitals. So it was restricted to hospitals. and WMDs .
@@kitty2pat wtf you talking about??? seriously? I don't want to be mean... but, good god, the racism against whites is ripe through and through with people these days... I am white, yet my doc is getting body-slammed by the medical board and dea, so he can no longer prescribe my necessary pain medication. now, i'm stuck in severe pain 24/7... and I am WHITE. Don't just assume that because some people have it one way, that all the others in that "group" have it that way too... cuz it's not the case.
@@ReadingInRedding same here Oklahoma doctors are so wrapped up in the addicts, there patients are being forgotten and suffering. Stay strong boss
Stop Acting Like Y'all Don't Understand Americas Business and WS Laws/System
Stop Capitalizing Every Single Word. Oh my goodness. Get educated.
K. G. Shut tf up! Betcha your name is KAREN or KEN!! I can’t stand grammar police 👮♀️ 👮♀️ people like yourself. You’re actually judging someone based off frickin KZhead comment?? Grow up and relax, I’m sure you UNDERSTOOD the message!! If not, oh well 😔 it wasn’t for you to understand!!
@@reneerenee4034 Let's talk about those emojis, shall we?
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Franklin Starks the FDA is owned and Run by BIG PHARMA
I am a chronic Pain patient and require the use of an opiod pain medicine (not fentanyl) for break through pain. It is a constant struggle to only use it when absolutely necessary but I luckily manage. When I see other pain patients dieing from grossly irresponsible practices of morally bankrupt drug reps encouraged by corrupt drug companies, makes me sick. I already feel ashamed that I have to take an opioid for my pain when I know I shouldn't feel guilty for wanting to be out of pain but, unfortunately because of the opioid crisis people assume that if you take an opioid, as perscibed or not or for legitimate chronic pain or not, that you're an addict, irrespective of your personal circumstances.
this is absolutely disgusting thanks for posting this online and thank you for the reporting
I think that I am going to vomit .....so disgusting! Does anyone have morals or integrity anymore?
Ithaca Comments Not in HARMACEUTICALS
No
Not if you are a true capitalist.
No 😥
No just hand over money
I am a formal medical rep and i have to tell you that everything they said about marketing is correct and is applicable to every product there is
I need some of that, For my back. My neck and my back.
“The only difference is they’re in a suit and tie”
My Crak dealer s were Jordan's
@@blackfacehardon5163 so do non-drug dealers kid. they’re popular
@@cheyenne1082 LoL
You mean "drug dealers".
You couldn't have said it any better
Better paid tho😅
Still good journalism in 2020 🏆
Yesss
We need more people holding the system accountable. Feels like there are fewer good people nowadays.
If you knew the truth that wouldn't be your attitude
This is just a tip of the iceberg. What about all the people and organisations who don't get reported? The entire system is rotten to the core.
@@beentheredonethat7572 What truth?
It is so sad to see how these pharma companies targeted vulnerable human beings like predators.
That’s my doctor! I remember the strippers in his waiting room, they could get you a free months worth of the sublingual fentanyl spray. The truth is that pain management has very little to do with the opioid crisis.
The sales guy is the scariest one of all
He's the dealer and hustler, the middle man as they say 💯💯
Why lobbying is not illegal?
'Cuz it's all about the almighty dollar...
@Sam Lutfi You almost had me!!!
@Sam Lutfi 😂😂😂
Sam Lutfi - you _are_ joking, right?
Amazing isn’t it.
Thank God for that ONE salesperson with a guilty conscience 😏
This does not happen in New Zealand. You're not allowed to advertise medicines, except over the counter ones, definitely not opioids. And doctors are not paid by pharma companies here. Medicines are bought by a centralized drug organisation and distributed by pharmacists (who also don't get paid by pharma companies). Doctors never get paid for pushing meds. It's hard to get opioids here!
Same in South Africa. Only specialists will prescribe heavy pain killers.
Your country also develops zero medications. It is easier for countries that get to sit on their hands regarding healthcare innovation to have simplified systems regarding pharma.
@@pinenut252 That is about as lousy of an excuse for the Pharma companies here as the 3rd grader whose "dog ate my homework".
Wow, this is absolutely terrible.
My husband had liver cancer he passed away on May 26, 2019 he was given morphine but he only used when he had pain the VA Hospital denied him pain medicine so he had to go to the UNM Cancer Center he never let us know when he was in pain cause he didn't want to worry us😇🤵❤️💔💙😭😭😭
I am very sorry about your husband, Jeanette. I am a female Army vet, and my sorrow for him comes from my heart. Mom died of cancer in 2016. She also hid her pain. Disgusting that ANYONE denied your honorable husband relief from his pain. SHAMEFUL! Especially the VA Hospital, who is supposed to care for US service members with dignity! I'll keep your husband in my prayers. May I ask what branch? And his first name or initials? Thank you.
My sister sorry for the loss of your husband please be strong my sister and my mom passed and my BFF. The pain is real u stay safe and please follow me on KZhead #DisneyDiva and thank you and be safe and sound.
So sorry for your loss.
Wow my mom died May 28 from breast cancer a year and two after your husband. And 10 years since she saw me graduate high school. And we didn’t know she had cancer until she died. She kept that secret so we could live our normal lives.
Jeanette Avila I am so sorry! What’s happening in this country with drug laws is a crime.
My cousin and one of my closest friends both died from overdosing. I want the Sackler's dead or in jail for life with out the possibility of parol
Its because they didn't use smarty
This is so sad. We all know people who struggled with opioid addiction as a result of these tactics from these sorts of companies. Heartbreaking
Addiction is fiction.
So perfect one of the guy said "Mafia has code of conduct", this highlighting that corporates will harm one and all, unlike the mafia which confines it to the under world.
I was a victim of Subsys and was on one of the highest doses prescribed. My pain doctor that prescribed the pain med was bribed by Insys and has been indicted by the AZ attorney general.
On the show 'The Big Bang Theory', Penny (Kaley Cuoco character) made a lot of money being one of these hustling Pharma rep. And they portrayed it as a great career. That's mass media values for ya.
Wasn't she a restaurant waitress?
@@afrocoolio25 On the initial seasons, yes.
Doctors ran prescription mills and were paid huge money by the pharmaceuticals to prescripe extremely powerful pain medications to people who had the kind of pains and aches that over the counter medications would fix. The state governments knew that. They knew that they would have a massive opioid epidemic on their hands if the state governments didn't keep oversight over doctors and their prescription pads. Some governors regulated and kept oversight of doctors, and some let big pharma and corrupt doctors wreck havoc on the population in their states. That's why some states are worse hit by the opioid epidemic than others. Now terminally ill cancer patients under palliative care, for whom addiction is obviously not an issue, can barely get medications specifically created with them in mind. 🤦
Drug companies that heavily promote off-label prescription of opioids should lose their patents. Fines should be more than the profits they made from off-label prescriptions.
This is a result of capitalism that Americans worship so much. Money has become the God and religion of these people.
so you are against people being able to trade their labour
Well the money does say ‘In God We Trust’
Many has alwats been their G.O.D gold oil diamonds
Totally agree with you.
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery.” Wish someone other than Marx penned that piece of insight. His system wouldn't be any better.
I like how they interview the guy pushing meds on Dr's, who blames the owner of the company. Lol 😆
I don't know anything about this story but I do know that I would not be alive if not for pain medicine. I take it exactly as the doctor prescribes, in other words I'm not an addict. No street drugs and no abuse. My body is destroyed after 50 years of diabetes, a broken neck and sever arthritis. Pain medicine allows me to get out of bed and do things with my family, if not for them I would have already died, one way or another. No one could live with the kind of chronic pain I have with out treatment. Thank God My doctor prescribed opiates over 17 years ago.
I forget the name of the drug, but there's a non-opioid seizure medication that can treat diabetic nerve pain. But unfortunately due to politics, it is now assumed everything prescription for pain is an opioid.
@@news_internationale2035That usually never works, some people need opiods😊 to function
It is an “organized crime operation “ that’s why it sounds like it. I have been saying for years I don’t want the drug dealers coming into my house (TV adds) and telling me to ask my doctor for a drug.
60 Minutes: "We noticed that PBS published a documentary on this, so we followed them and made our own story on the same exact thing."
Lol when I was little I mentioned that public buses were dirty so my doctor tried to prescribe me antipsychotics.
I love that he says most DR's just throw him out. GOOD! Thank You Dr's.
DEA agent, "these drugs were so powerful that they were only intended for cancer patients". Me, "tell me more"
60 MINUTES - Better late than never!! THANKS
Lmao
Technically those drugs are only to be presribed to cancer patients or people that aren't going to live much longer, to make them comfortable. They are not to be used for any other pain case.
I’m so surprised and happy that a corrupt and evil pharmaceutical company and it’s staff actually got prosecuted and sent to prison even though they wield wealth and power! This was a great start, now we need to prosecute the big boys in that industry that intentionally hurt people. 👏🏼
Capitalism greed
I'm not completely anti capitalist, but pure capitalism and the medical field shouldn't be combined.
no matter what ism you use the outcome will always be the same any system can and will be corrupted
@My heart is a fedpost aww, do we have a wittle anti-Semite lurking?
@My heart is a fedpost aww, the wittle Eichmann thinks anyone who doesn't hate Jews is "establishment" approved. The wittle Eichmann is confused.
this is not capitalism. this is fascism and socialism.
Big businesses, a legalized mafia! At least the mafia had a loyalty
Dude what year was this? Here in Detroit if you’re 53 with a broken spine they won’t give you a Roxi prescription, let alone Pharma fentanyl...
The victims are the babies born to drug addicted mothers. I am raising one of these victims. The hospital let the drug addicted parents take the child home with methadone for his bottle. The child spent two years locked in a nasty dirty crib in a dark room barely kept alive. He is 7 now.
Does anyone at the FDA even care? Is there anyone home in Government?
No & no.
Care? About what? Money (yes). Humanity, ethics, morals (no).
HE IS SMILING AND BRAGGING NO SHAME NO REMORSE
Yes, but all of them have no remorse, while he’s the only one who cooperated, and still had to give up $millions of his profits. Not sure he’s smiling when looking at his empty bank account.
Doctors are always "practicing" medicine, never actually properly using medicine.
The dark secret, strip clubs are often used in business
5.5 Years will not stop most from doing it.Just makes them more aware of not getting caught.
He's got enough BREAD now 😒
Although if African Americans practice those same tactics, it would be called the Rico law.
King pings
I can't believe every one of the executives are still alive 😉
So that's why I was puking and out of consciousness from pain . They gave it to the ones that didn't need it and left the ones that did to rot. Edit: gave*
Yet El Chapo is doing life in prison
@Wilson 😂🤣😂
I recently checked the database and saw my doctors payments from big pharma. Most my doctors did well and passed the test, my oncologist did not. She will be fired by me as her patient, looking for a new oncologist in fort worth.
18:00 when they start talking about the strip clubs
You see executives, I see dope dealers
Doctors should lose licenses for multiple off-label prescriptions of certain classes of drugs, especially ones with severe side effects or high potential for addiction.
I agree
I wonder if they did. I wonder if they used that money to pay off student loans and all that good stuff.
Food & Shelter & Air & Water & Clothes All Essentials Are Addicting. “ God Creates gives Freely “ Evil Men Manipulate For Profits “
How could anyone at FDA have missed this.
How do we access this training guide on how they groom doctors or find those with high quantities of prescribing? I'm curious to see these methods..
KZhead is making me mentally depressed. My heart hurts
All the while the poor and middle classes including retirees can’t afford their prescriptions or their part D MCR
😡This is infuriating!!!😡
Less known about Kapoor is that he has a restaurant group, JNK Concepts, which holds upscale Indian restaurants in Phoenix, Chicago, and Lincolnshire, IL. Marigold Maison and Roka Akor are two of the restaurants in the group.
The less a person visits a doctor the longer they live, I didn’t believe it at first but now it makes total sense.
You have to advocate for yourself. Going to the doctors is not bad it’s having them explain what their working diagnosis is, why they are doing tests, what the results of those tests are and why they are recommending medicine etc. I have disagreed with doctors on not going on certain meds after discussing it with my pharmacists or not feeling I needed it and if it’s something I really need they would explain why if not they don’t push it. If you don’t feel comfortable with your doctor or trust them then always seek out a second or third opinion. Going to the doctors can help them catch something before it progresses. If you pay for your health insurance might as well use it for your annual physicals and dentals cleaning , vision etc checkups. I think being scared of going to the doctors can be a huge problem. Just like anything else they are there to help but you also have to be your own best advocate. In any industry there are good and bad actors you just have to learn navigate that in life.
Never Spend Money On Them Strippers Guys
Please do a segment on the legal loan sharking that's now going on in America. Loan companies are literally getting away with loan sharking tactics and the government has made it legal for white collar loan sharks to do so. Greed will be the down fall of America.
Greed is not the fall of America. It is the lack of awareness and common sense education this country is lack off. As an result, we have all kinds of regulatory bodies that puts red tape in all industries. Just because the light is green doesn't mean you can go. Proceed in caution ⚠️
Are these the same doctors that told us all about how dangerous COVID was, and that we all need their vaccines?
Less than 6 years in jail for corrupting the health system and destroying families? 😮