Show threadbs2Feb 8, 2024
> in 2019, the Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was sentenced to life in prison by a United States court, and was made to forfeit 12 billion dollars, while the managers of #PurduePharma despite being given three felony convictions, did not go to jail, and the Sacklers retained possession of most of their fortune.
#RaceAndClass #TheSacklers and #ElChapo #ElChapoSacklers
#DrugLords
Show threadbs2Feb 6, 2024
While reading Ghosh's Smoke and Ashes and trying to catch up on the Opioid Epidemic news it's easy to think that the UK, the USA, the Tata Group in India, the Industrial Revolution all profited from opium like #TheSacklers.
Show threadbs2Feb 6, 2024

> It's 2019. The scandal surrounding OxyContin, Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers' role in America's devastating opioid epidemic is front-page news. Hundreds of people are dying every day from overdoses... "the greatest trick they ever pulled was to write the family out of the history of the family business."
#BrianMann on #EmpireOfPain by #PatrickMaddenKeefe #TheSacklers

In the #IbisTrilogy there's a line about how opium is the best way to turn human weakness into gold. #AmitavGhosh

Stafford GregoireDec 4, 2023
@GW
The #UsCongress & #TheExecutiveBranch helped the rich sell #TheOpioidCrisis it ain’t just #thesacklers