Following some recent revelations about the role of large companies in America’s ongoing opioid epidemic, John Oliver takes another look at the crisis.
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I still can't believe this guy was in community
Ya see kids, drug dealing is okay....if you're white.
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This does not surprise me any big corporations in America do not give one flying rats a** about people. the only thing they care about is their addiction to money. When human beings put money over other human beings. we have definitely lost our way and given enough time , the addiction to money ( which is far far worse than all other addictions combined) will be the end of us humans
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Bryan Cranston is such a genius actor...
Shouldn't it be illegal to destroy evidence?
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Why does he spoil every "Sackler"?
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Rich people get away with everything
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I am one of those people in Kentucky. I always said Oxycontin was akin to satan, but turns out it was only his tool. The true devil - the real evil - is in the heart of Richard Sackler. I know I'm blessed. I lost so many people I loved and who loved me on the whim of a billionaire. Fuck Purdue and fuck the Sackler family. There isn't enough justice in the world for the blood on their hands. Sober from Oxycontin, heroin, and all opiates since 4/26/2012. Praise be to God. 🙏
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Richard Sackler looks like Mathew Broderick’s evil twin
@Richard Sackler, Let me teach you how to make money in a humane way and you can bring me a bottle of Rosé
TIL about the slimy Sacklers
love you Bryan Cranston.
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The DEA is terrorizing doctors and chronic pain patients. People who live with incurable injuries /illnesses that cause debitating pain and disability are dieing daily because prescription pain medications are being denied and even stopped in people who've been able to function while taking them. Less than 1% of people who take prescription pain medication become addicted. Addiction is caused by a gene that is not triggered in everyone. Look into Don't Punish Pain Rally on Facebook. There are plenty of articles and patients that tell the truth about prescription pain medication. The epidemic is an illicit fentanyl, cocaine, heroin and meth issue. You are only one accident away from needing pain medications yourself. The inhumane treatment that rare/chronic illness patients is receiving has gotten out of hand. It's now in hospitals for people who have surgeries. People are being given Ibuprofen for painful surgeries. The prescribing of prescription meds has decreased by 60% yet overdoses have increased. This is because people are desperate and going to the streets and getting tainted pressed pills cut with illicit fentanyl. Dependence and addiction are totally different situations. Pain medication is the only medication being limited even though THE FDA has no upper limit to opioid pain meds. You can die from kidney and liver failure from OTC acetaminophen and Ibuprofen. Every day people are killing themselves because their bodies can't take the pain any longer. Please do an update with correct information that is relevant now. Pill mills have long been gone.
Where did you get your statistics from? Also, addiction is not caused by a gene, where did you even read that?! There can be a genetical PREDISPOSITION to addiction, but that only determines the treshhold. Everyone can get addicted if the sufficient conditions are met. EVERYONE. Also, did you ever wonder why here in Europe pain medications exist and are prescribed and yet we don't have an oppioid epidemic? Because here pharmaceutical companies are FORBIDDEN from marketing their products directly to the public, and doctors alone are the ones who decide wich treatment to prescribe. And besides, there are many different pain-killers that don't turn into an addict as easily as oxycodone does. Prescribing a oxycodone, or any other oppioid, for a simple back-pain is like shooting a mosquito with a bazooka. In most cases an NSAID is more than enough, and they don't produce addiction.
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John is a National Treasure ... For a transplanted "BRIT" in the former colonies... His slant on American Culture is 100% accurate!
Terrorists jobs are being stolen by pharmaceutical companies
this dude on cocaine is awesome :D
There were a lot of unscrupulous people and businesses that caused the opioid crisis that’s a given but the opioid crisis isn’t going to go away until America addresses the mental health crisis.
A downside to this is now pain patients are suffering and dying because they cannot get adequate care. For example, I had massive surgery (first rib removal, scalenectomy, neurolysis, subclavian vein bypass, subclavian artery bypass), then had a bleed and needed further emergency surgery to repair and evacuate a liter of blood from my neck, then because of course an infection. Pain control? 1 week of pain meds. I can’t take NSAIDs (kidney failure)- which also limits tricyclic antidepressants, and meds like gabapentin. 1 week after ripping out a bone, muscles, nerve scraping, and vascular bypasses.
He is so talent.
Hats off to John Oliver, for such savage use of his pulpit. Another casualty of this manufactured crisis, is the folks for whom opiod analgesics provide legitimate, therapeutic pain relief. They're now, often unable to obtain prescription renewals. We know where that path leads desperate people. Keep up the good work Mr. Oliver!
No laughing lady ;(
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the fentanyl is now being mixed with benzene to give a stronger high, resulting in people od'ing. just last week alone, at my work, we had over 2 dozen opioid overdoses because people are becoming more resistant to regular drugs. And the solution is when od's happen is to pump Naxolone in their airways to counter act with the fentanyl so it doesn't trigger the body to go into a coma and die. And you would think during a pandemic people would have less access to drugs, yeah no
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legalize it all and fuck off
Recovering addict here. In the early 2000’s I was doctor shopping and they handed out opiates like Halloween candy. I often took between 30-45 Vicodin a day.... Then to coke, then to crack, then to heroin. Need help? Find it. Wanna end up dead, in jail or the madhouse?? Keep going. Not getting preachy. I would have told me to f$&k off 11 years ago. Education, crackdown on big pharmaceutical, mental health awareness.... This problem is covering the dark shattered underbelly of the American dream. Be good to one another 💙
A Point that gets lost (I know i'm late) Purdue released oxycodone, oxycodone led to a generation of more addicts than ever before, board members and legislators demanded a solution. Their solution? Oxycontin, which the thinking was instead of instant release (like oxycodone) its EXTENDED release and therefore has less potential to be abused. That would've worked except they made the chemical makeup "snortable" and people realized oxycontin worked practically the same and even better than oxycodone when snorted. Now they've supposedly changed the makeup again to make it "not snortable" but they've failed miserably as addicts can still IV it. Although by the time your IV oxycontin your to far gone and have to go to H just to sustain yourself from withdrawals. Just like Rockefeller they come up with the problem and solution. Now they're changing opiate laws entirely and basically leaving suburban moms, and dads to go through withdrawals and have cut their prescriptions, FORCING THEM to go to the streets to find H and at the point its totally done. It's a dark reality. The damage is done, Purdue was successful in totally demolishing a generation of innocence. Its going to take us a couple of generations to recover if we even can, to make sure our children's children aren't addicts.
The "Last Week Tonight" team (Contributing artists included) are F#*king BRILLIANT!
The issue I have is that people that abuse them and get addicted make it so much harder people like me that have issues with ulcers due to NSAID use and hemangioma on my liver from ibuprofen and need some kind of beneficial pain relief to get it. And for me, I think, the reason I’m not addicted is because I smoke marijuana and don’t feel any withdrawals and because I don’t ever take more than I’m prescribed
White boy Rick did 30 years for selling drugs at 17 years old , but no jail time for big pharmaceutical companies killing more people than all wars and aids combined.
In light of the purity percentage in MN and the whole George Floyd saga....I hope that this issue gets some more justice along with George Floyd in court now....The highest purity percentage in the United States is 96% in this state I was told by a DEA Agent. :( Crazy that that can exist in 2021
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I won't watch the video of course. But I bet this "hero of anti-corporation resistance" doesn't mention China's role in the opioid epidemic, am I right? He knows where the real money is, just like the producers of opioids.
John Oliver literally singlehandedly got HBO blocked in China lmao
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I would love for you to do a video on how the opioid epidemic is affecting chronic pain patients and veterans. How the suicide rate among these groups is at an alarming rate!
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John Oliver you cheeky bastard we LOVE YOU!!!
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Bryan Cranston😍💯🙏
Michael Fucking Keatin!!!!!!!!!!!!💯💯💯💯
# harass Richard Sackler
Yet alcohol kill tens of thousands more Americans every year than all illegal and legal opiates. Who are the real junkies here?
Bryan Cranston give me shivers there. Who would have thought Malcolm's dad would get so dark
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What did you expect from a guy named Dick Sack?
John did that coke bit a little too well 😂
Cocaine is still used as a local anesthetic for facial and dental surgeries. But the joke is funny for peoples who think thinly on the surface.
Same tie.....Same tie....... SAME TIE!! LMMFAO
Hilarious!!!
And THIS is why John Oliver wins every award!!! He calls out every nasty billionaire whom is doing nothing but harm to anyone... that's why he's brilliant!!
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Dick Sackler...😂😂😂
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I really wish that he would do a follow up on this segment about the poppy production in Afghanistan and how it started in the 80s after American backed the mujahedin in a price war against Russia. There was no poppy in Afghanistan before American got there and now we’ve been guarding it for 2 decades. These guys are almost as culpable for useless, endless wars as the industrial military complex.
Best investigative journalism in the U.S is provided by an Englishman
-Government fucks up and lets millions of people become addicted to opiates -Government realized said fuck up, takes away opiates -The millions of addicts don't magically stop using, because they're addicted -Addicts turn to the streets for relief from withdrawal, enter fentanyl -Addiction spirals out of control- I just told that story while taking my methadone after breakfast, how ironic
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That’s what I call a shit hole country ? With no laws for the rich! And laws for the poor , Indians ,black Africans Asians and others . These racist country still call the people born in the usa by the color of the race..Shame on you white Americans .......
So, Richard Sackler inherited a lot of wealth from his dad, shows absolutely no remorse for his wrongdoings, has heaps of lawsuits against him, AND likes to put his name on things. Damn this guy's gonna be president one day😂😂
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All I can think about is Kermit doing drugs now. Fuck's sakes, my mind is now inhabited by a high puppet because I watched this episode.
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