Pharmaceutical distributors charged for funneling abused drugs to Houston pharmacies
Pharmaceutical distributors allegedly funneled nearly 70 million opioid pills and 30 million doses of prescription drugs to several Houston-area pill-mill pharmacies. The drugs had an estimated street value of $1.3 billion, officials said.
@QasimRashid @QasimRashid It’s disgusting. My brother-in-law, Dr Art Van Zee was the first to bring the case to
#Congress and the subject of Barry Meier’s brillian book,
#painkiller. Also the subject of Beth Macy’s groundbreaking book
#Dopesick HBO also featured him on in their series
#CrimeOfTheCentury #Oxycontin took
#purduepharma from a $200M company to $2B via
#pillmills and corrupt md’s.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-19/the-small-town-doctor-taking-on-the-sackler-family/10910916 
The small-town doctor taking on the billionaire family blamed for America's opioid crisis
In the late 1990s, Art Van Zee noticed reports of addictions to a powerful new prescription painkiller, OxyContin. Now, his town's humble community medical centre has become an unlikely rallying point for legal action against the manufacturer — and it could be the biggest class action America has ever seen.
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