TYT: Police Put Big Pharma CEOs On Blast

[WhoIsNumberNone]

The police department in Gloucester, Massachusetts has decided to take a completely different strategy in combating the war on drugs. They are posting the contact information of the top five pharmaceutical CEOs. They are urging citizens to politely call the offices of these CEOs to inform them that their drugs are the ones people are getting hooked on, and asking what they’re doing to combat addiction. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian (The Point), Jaclyn Glenn (JaclynGlenn), and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

Do you support the police departments efforts? Should more departments make this move? Let us know in the comments below.

Read more here: http://www.boston.com/news/2015/09/17/gloucester-police-post-names-salaries-and-contact-info-big-pharma-ceos/LK5jP65QoZc8DXwI7kFRxO/story.html?p1=Must_Reads_hp

“The Gloucester Police Department continued its fight against opiate addiction on Wednesday with yet another unusual tactic.

In a post on the department’s Facebook page, Gloucester police posted the names, salaries, and contact information for five of the highest paid CEOs of pharmaceutical companies and urged readers to make some calls.”

[dorkzilla]

1. THAT is AWESOME!!!!

Go Gloucester! (Yes that is the Gorton’s Fisherman on their town seal).

Edit to clarify: Gorton’s uses an approximation of the town’s Fisherman’s Memorial on their packaging, but more people will have seen the box than the Memorial so...

[Bubzer]

2. Awesome

The police department in Gloucester, Massachusetts is setting the example of what great cops do! The work FOR society rather than assuming everyone (especially PoC) is a potential violent offender.

[pnwmom]

6. I don't know what they expect the drug companies to do. Because of the restrictions,

I was a post surgical patient who, for a hour, didn't have the necessary pain medication. A nurse wasn't paying enough attention and the bag ran out. It took an hour before they got the paperwork completed and the hospital pharmacy prepared the new bag. In the "old days," there never would have been a delay like that.

[Bubzer]

11. That's a problem with the hospital, its nurse, and its pharmacy, not the pharmaceutical industry.

[pnwmom]

14. That's what I said. It's not the fault of the pharmaceutical industry

how easy the access is to these drugs at the point of sale or use.

[redwitch]

3. Good for them!

That's kind of amazing to me but then again they are the ones dealing with the overdoses, the crime caused by substance abuse. Good for them!

[1monster]

4. Then there is the flip side of the problem. Because of the war on drugs and the

addiction of those who got started on their addictions due to a legal prescription for pain relief, those who are truly in need of pain management drugs, i.e., those in chronic, debilitating pain, cannot get them or they and their doctors are in danger of running afoul of the nonsense laws regarding pain relievers. Terminal cancer patients should not have to wait in screaming pain for their next dose. Those in so much chronic pain that they can barely move should not have live restricted lives because they are unable to access the pain relieving medicines that allow them to function nearly normal lifestyles.

[pnwmom]

5. I honestly don't know what they expect big Pharma to do about this problem.

There are many legitimate uses of these drugs, for example, post surgery, cancer patients, and people with severe chronic pain.

It seems that if they're going to harass anyone, it should be the doctors that pass them out to patients who don't need them.

[alfredo]

8. cracking down on the doctors would cut big Pharma's bottom line.

[xocet]

9. Maybe the pharmaceutical companies could do further research into addiction and types of addiction..

..if this has not been adequately done. Maybe there could be a pharmaceutical that could lessen the addictive impact of the drugs that are currently being used.

Is there a correlation between an addiction to any given drug and particular sets of genetic markers? Could these hypothetical correlations be determined also to be causal in nature? Could pharmaceuticals then be tailored to maintain efficacy and also avoid creating addiction?

If these sorts of studies have not been done, maybe "big Pharma" could do them or maybe they could collaborate with the NIH to determine a way to lessen the problem of addiction.

[pnwmom]

10. You are talking about fundamental, long term research and that should be the job

of the National Institutes of Health and the scientists (mostly university scientists) it funds.

A safe, non-addictive drug that is effective for severe pain has always been the holy grail. I don't think they're close to one.

[Bubzer]

12. There's absolutely no incentive for one either.

Pharmaceutical companies make considerable amounts of money by providing pills that have side effects which have to be treated with other pills. It doesn't work in their financial interest to make one that lacks those side effects.

[pnwmom]

13. Maybe so, but none of the companies do long term research that has little chance of

producing a marketable product.

That's the job of government researchers, but the Rethugs are constantly cutting back on NIH funding.

[Duppers]

7. K & RRRRRRR