What was even a point of made up this story honestly? They really thought people really got sympathy from calling murderer a murderer? 🙁

Thats like asking a girl why her mother sleeps with his father, you know its vaguely true and you know why is that

Let's just let the fact they chose *four-year-olds* for this sink in. Did they honestly think anyone would believe that a bunch of toddlers barely old enough to count to ten would know about the opioid crisis and the Sacklers being responsible?

@@vardekpetrovic9716 [citation needed]

@@meeshermans297 That part of the story isn't so implausible. Some of the parents at the preschool were talking about the Sacklers, since they knew the little girl was at their school, a kid asked them about it, remembered "Sacklers = killers" and not much else, and then spread the story around at school. I could believe that.

Excellent comment!

This is how car companies avoided regulation. Except they blamed the pedestrians, and invented jaywalking.

also every gun control advocate. you don't blame the car company or distilleries for drunk drivers

Maybe its corporation's fault, (socialist) Maybe its government's fault, (libertarian) Maybe its both. (Reality) Shall we go live in the mountains, free from corporation and government? (Hermit) What is the solution?

@@christinalaw3375 it's not both because the state is controlled by capitalists. the impetus of the corruption comes from market forces controlling things. the solution is to end capitalism.

And you killed 500.000 people during the robbery

actually 100's of times more criminal than that

Imagine you kill half a million people and ruin the lives of millions more. And you dont get a life sentence. America is completely rotten.

Na, it's more like they have to pay back 10k, but they only have to pay back 1k a year and all the while they are making 3-6% interest on that 100k. Meaning worst case 3% they make 35k in interest over the 10 years. In other words they increased there net worth by 25k instead of 35k...wow, they really got punished.

You forgot the part where your lawyers convinced the judge to throw all the people in the bank you hurt in prison.

If only we know the locations of every Sackler Behead them and give their money to the poor

Thank you for your service to the public. I have a herniated l5 with spinal stenosis and I've been on opioids a lil over a year and just had emergency surgery done last week. I'm in alot less pain than usual now and I know for sure I'm addicted. I started the process of weaning myself off. I can see how this could be a very big problem if I actually liked how they make me feel but I don't like the feeling at all. If insurance would of covered medical marijuana I would of never touched the pain pills in the first place. I can very well see how someone can get addicted very easily off these things

Justice in court (fees, rich lawyers, "programs" that are only punitive, etc), or for the actual victims: real care and less finger pointing and judgement of people- many who followed their Dr's advice/prescriptions, etc. I bet you've seen it all, it would be great if medical personnel would speak up for the patients and victims once in a while. Yelling at the Sacklers is getting old.

@@aurorathekitty7854 They (big pharma) were counting on it!

@@flyingcheff now let's tell everyone to get a shot.

Brilliant!

Because you're on the wrong team you fool

@@danielsander9997 what

This is real life canon for me. 🤣

OMG - that is SOOOOOO appropriate... cinematically... I don't believe in angels.... but you are 100%.

@shadowdawnl6930 Sorry about your Mother! Know this, with all of the people the Shitlers screwed over, there will be a reckoning. This is America where we have the old West Tradition of an eye for an eye. Some of them will find Frontier Justice eventually. Also, they will find good ole' kharma for sitting on that pile of blood money. Look at the Madoffs, Epstein, Weinstein, etc.

Thank you for telling your story.

I know how you feel. I lost an Aunt, who died in her sleep from taking this drug!

This was a really sweet comment to read. I’d love to hear more about her!! My mom is also a victim of the opioid crisis. These people are actually evil.

hey, been a year, hope you are keeping your head up ❤

Sean, that’s really brave to share. You’ve been through a major trauma, so genuinely probably need counselling and support to help you work through it. I personally also believe Jesus helps with healing, if you are open to him. I hope things get better for you and you get a good community of people around you.

Check out the book “the power of now” . You might find some comfort and peace in spiritual awakening. 🙏

I've been there. I'm not and wasn't ever an addict, but there was a point in my life i was seriously depressed. A good therapist and a good support network can seriously help, and finding something to live for is just as important. Doesn't matter if it's a skill you want to learn, a book you want to read, or something you want to accomplish. Just finding one, good thing that makes you feel, if not happy, then at least accomplished, can quite literally be a lifesaver. I also seriously recommend cognitive behavioral therapy with a therapist that specializes in working with people who've struggled with addiction, if the cost is why you can't go, there are a lot of non-for-profits out there that do free online counseling for different groups of people, be it teens, queer folk, domestic abuse survivors, or current and ex addicts. And hey, even if opiods controlled your life for a decade, you survived, and you made it out of the cycle. That's something to be proud of. I'm wishing you the best, and I really hope things get better for you.

Sean, you're not alone! Matter of fact i had the same record as you (well, 2 speeding tickets) and similar family background. Then severe back pain started and i ended up with a nasty addiction that lasted over 10 yrs. Now clean over 4 yrs and still picking up the pieces. Family doesn't understand these sorts of problems so i can't turn to them. We certainly are not close at all anymore and alot of it has to do with the fact that I alienated myself from them for so long. They're not dumb and I suspect they had an idea what was going on, since I continuously lost jobs and moved around several times each year. Now i have some stupid crap on my record and it angers me that i threw it all away over pills. Only thing i can do to keep going is be happy i made it out alive and never overdosed. And i do have a circle of friends now who I have for support which is truly wonderful. I wish you luck and hope you find happiness!

Please reach out to support groups and to mental health and behavioral health professionals. Your life matters and what happened to you was not your fault.

That is not remotely accurate about the marijuana at most you go to jail for three years for selling marijuana

@@ahadumer418 Your statement isn't exactly accurate. It depends on a few factors...namely one's ethnicity.

May DOG bless these United Sh*tholes Of America - land of the fee and home of the $lave!

@@ahadumer418 marijuana amounts greater than one ounce can net you a felony equivalent to selling crack in some states. The maximum can be a life sentence, which could end up anywhere from 5-25 years depending on the judge.

@@ahadumer418 it is five years for a first offence and less than 50kg, more if you sell to a minor, and if it is a repeated offence mandatory minimums gets triggered and the maximum sentence goes even higher, and if the prosecutor feel like it, other charges can be raised to increase the final sentence. Ten years is not the most common outcome, but it can happen, and by comparison with what the Sackler family did, five years is still a joke.

In 1942, the United States of America legalized "Marihuana" to fight the Axis of Evil. There's an old WWII film titled *Hemp For Victory* made by the US Department of Agriculture that encourages Americans to grow Cannabis Sativa for our national defense. The license to grow hemp that is shown in the video reads, "Producer of Marihuana." This was just five years after "Marihuana" was outlawed as the most dangerous drug on Earth.

@@Marijuanifornia FALSE BS NONSENSE 🙄🙄🙄

There’s the two tier justice system for you

@@kwamebushman606 There is an official government link to the video from the US National Archives.

@@Marijuanifornia it was later criminalized by the Nixon administration along with substances that were commonly used by blacks and poor Americans so they could lock them up and disenfranchise them as part of the GOP southern strategy

And so many of our people have gone on to get addicted to meth because they were no longer able to obtain oxygen. Addiction changes one's brain chemistry 🧠 🧠 🧠 🧠 🧠

Upstate NY my 30 year old daughter land my son 32 lost so many friends to this

Then let's take it to the streets and change things. All the victims and their families need and should be heard. Not to mention we out number them. Just saying

"While he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples approached him privately, saying: “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your presence and of the conclusion of the system of things?”" Mathew 24 Not the first time someone asks for a new system.

More proof that anyone who says John Oliver is a neolib does not know what they’re talking about.

@@Dreigonix yeah he's definitely a demsoc at the least, maybe crypto-socialist even. I think he does good work.

+

That is why I love him!!!!!!!!

Even funnier knowing that John Oliver was an English major

The thing is, linguistics is not what most people think. It is a science. I was a linguistics major and a math minor and what I always thought was that you use the same part of your brain to study linguistics as you do to study calculus. It’s one of those things that you just don’t understand until one day, if you’re lucky, the light comes on and you get it now. The same happened with me and calculus. So no, the study of linguistics is nothing like studying English but John wanted to humiliate the woman, so….

I know, as a linguist this line made me laugh and cry at the same time 🤣. Although most branches of linguistics and English major don't really have near as much overlap as people think

I love what he does too but he should have gone harder on all of them; these people are Disgusting.

Noam Chomsky should have considered that before he ventured into politics lol

my only regret is that my "like" to this comment is marked by my progeny obstreperously hollering and gesticulating wildly, whilst watching competitive Overwatch. I learned one of these words from The Goblin Market poem. Your welcome.

People tend to be intimidated when you write. About what? About THEM. It’s not your job title, it’s your works.

Shut it, Wordy! 😬

I’m a cunning linguist. Women love me. 🙄

Me @ The Sacklers: aww boo hoo, let me press F on the world’s smallest keyboard

@@humanoid251 me @ you: "Hey, I saw you across the bar, and I thought you were cute.. do you want to talk? I know you're a guy, and most guys are insecure about this and get offended, but I feel like we have a connection... what do you say, hot stuff?"

You are horrible people.

@@orabera Did the Sacklers throw some money at Bot-companies now to try and repair their broken image? Pathetic.

I'm a family member of a heroin overdose victim. I think the Sacklers aren't guilty. I think who is really guilty are the "well meaning" idiots who keep us from painkillers. My brother was going to use heroin no matter what. He was arrested for drug related offense more than a dozen times and never once attempted to get clean. He did this for 20 years before ODing. Meanwhile I get infantilized and have to beg for 12 vicodins because of two broken ribs. Total fucking BULLSHIT. We should be able to keep that stuff in our medicine cabinets if we want. I've never been addicted and won't be. But I get treated like a child even though I'm 41 years old by doctors.

@@cerebralslime5677 Are you serious right now? How tf do you think these people got addicted in the first place! When they can’t afford prescription pills they turn to heroin/fentanyl. Jesus

@@naypstpst8855 what evidence do you have to support that claim

@@cerebralslime5677 I would say the same evidence you presented.

@@naypstpst8855 Not only that......."easy scapegoat" The billionaires? Really? The one blaming the relatively powerless persons who are hooked seems to have picked the easy scapegoat. Unfortunately, there are those with the circular logic. Good and competent people rise to the top and own large companies. If they own a large company they are good people. So of course some one else is to blame.

He's the only part of member of the media whose work causes real life, tangible results. Really awesome.

Of course it's difficult to 'let it go'. No human deserves to be extorted and abused in this manner. Especially not merely for 'money' (whatever that really means when we get right down to it). However, this is *PRECISELY* what humans do--all the time. They abuse one another in order to 'become rich'. Unfortunately, they have a distorted viewpoint on the word. Becoming rich has nothing to do with money. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨

Why did they do oxy?

@@elizabethbennet4791 I got prescribed opioid after tooth extraction. I didn't even hurt enough to take Tylenol.

Of course it's hard to take and to move on.

OMG this is my same story!! I got a prescription vicodin from a NYU dental school extraction and I never had the slightest pain, I only took one Advil before the local wore off lol

Dear lord I hear you... That shit took EVERYTHING from me. Home, money, job, car, girlfriend etc. I was homeless, turned into a criminal and saw no hope. I'm sober now, but omg the pain, shame and guilt will never go away. I am forever scarred.

It's such a fucked up thing. I was lucky to watch friends go down this path, and helped a few recover. But lost a few too. Boils my fucking blood these parasites of humanity are living free.

@@turdfurgeson1643 Who the drug companies or the addicts?

@@Dbswrath The wealthy executives who knew damn well how deadly their product was, lied and denied, and got away with tragically minimal punishment when "caught."

@@turdfurgeson1643 oh yes absolutely totally agree barely got a slap on the wrist, had too pay a little billion dollar fine which is nothing too what they made off of OXY. they ruined generations for profit and knew exactly what they were doing

People deserve to know the names and faces of the jerks that did this murderous crime

Agreed! Explaining the causes and effects of addiction to common people is exhausting. That's why we need John Oliver to do a three-part (hopefully more) show about the opioid criss.

@@deelish22 I thought one of the most offensive things about the orange clown's presidency was his repeated statement that he'd "solved pharmaceuticals" (abuse? costs?) -neither!

I'm from Carbon County (not far from Shamokin); the whole coal region is awash with heroin, prescription drugs, and fentanyl. It's been raging for over a decade, now, at this point, with no signs of slowing.

@@artvandelay6306 1. Love the handle 2. I love visiting Carbon County, great state parks up there, most important 3. I have know many people who were part of Dr. Kraynak’s deadly cycle, and it hit every surrounding county, which is very sad. You are right there is no slowing right now. Our biggest mission right now is to try and bust stigma, which I am sure is a problem up your way too.

Could be a quote from Epsteins lawyer lel

Well you are supposed to know their name, just not what they look like... because these families sure like to jizz their names on museum wings and other community buildings & projects. Which sucks, because if they had just paid their fair share of taxes you could build a museum on every street corner.

Most of the super rich don't like to see their name in the media because it could make the peasants aware of how unequal the wealth is distributed in this system of ours.

@@maxarendorff6521 another reason is that if the middle to lower class people suddenly has the power to overthrow them, they will tend to target those they already know by name.

Jesus what part of KZfaq am I not going to find you

HEY STEPHEN HOW WAS OBAMAS PARTY?

I hope she changed doctors too.

Good on your mother for sticking to what she knew was right. Doctors dismiss female and minority patients all the time, leading patients to provide their own medical care. Wishing her all the goodness and blessings in life.

@@TwoMarshmallows1 What's scary is he didn't think he was lying. He was parroting what a drug rep had told him instead of actually looking into the medication himself which, to be fair, most doctors did. My mom was lucky but how many doctors gave this out like candy when they were told it was the miracle drug for chronic pain patients?

@@christinaify Oh wow, I didn't even think of that. That's just vile. The father of a friend of mine is a doctor (and an amazing one). He's always said he never believes what the pharmaceutical reps tell him. He always researches the medication and gives the patient what he believes is best. It's frightening how few doctors do this. So many people should just not be in health care.

@@TwoMarshmallows1 Good on your friend's dad! Doctors are so busy I really can't blame them when they don't look into new medications. And 20 years ago, they didn't have much cause to doubt the pharm reps. They really had been turning out some life altering medications at the time like new treatments for AIDS, cancer, suddenly they had options for patients with depression, not to mention the infamous Viagra lol It really had been a decade of life-changing, legit medications. It's like the companies took advantage of that good reputation it had built to do something...yeah, vile. Just like you said.

You just have to _darle alegria a tu cuerpo Macarena_ JK, good luck with your linguist career!

@@Piracanto lol, that was my entire childhood right there (I'm Argentinian). Thank you for your good wishes!

I was picturing Noam Chomsky who is like your favorite grandpa- not intimidating

Oh! And good luck on your aspiration!!!

@@macarenacabral4258 Saludos!

How many congressional campaigns has that street level drug dealer financed? I'm pretty sure there's a direct relationship

yep. yet another example of the two-tiered criminal justice system working its magic here in the US. the whole notion of crime itself is nothing more than a social construct when you see all the crimes against humanity committed by corporations, both historically and up to this very day. Du Pont poisoned us with C8, the stuff that's in Teflon. 99% of the world has detectable levels of C8 in their blood, thanks to those pieces of shit dumping it into our drinking water, even though they knew in the 1950's that it was fucking toxic. 3M poisoned us with PFAS, the stuff that's in Scotch-Guard, and carpets, and cosmetic products that millions of people use every day, and a ton of other products. Monsanto poisoned us with Roundup. Union Carbide allowed an entire factory in Bhopal, India to get so bad that it exploded, killing tens of thousands of people. they all knew that these things were bad, just like Purdue knew Oxycontin was basically a synthetic version of heroin. they knew, they didn't care, they colluded with our regulatory agencies to get their shitty, shitty products approved, and even after it became painfully clear that the shit was killing us, it still took years and sometimes decades for literally anything to be done about them ... and the end result is always the same, the assholes who made the decisions get off. its seriously disgusting.

Actually pot got moved to class 2 with Cocain due to the fact that it helps with seizures.

You can steal more money with a pen than with a gun - misquoted Godfather quote.

This family...did it legally. That's the main issue.

I had hernia surgery in 2015. I took 9 of the 300 percocet the dr. prescribed. Garbage pusher boat payment quack doctor.

@@diegomontoya8095 absolutely. Got my wisdom teeth out young. they gave me more Vicodin than Andre the giant could consume.

@@treebeard8475 Why do they prescribe that?? I got a my wisdom teeth removed, two of them were horizontal and just got a local anestetic and ibuprofen. Yes i was in pain but at least i didnt get my life turn apart.

@@diegomontoya8095 tons of people take opioids and don’t become addicted. It’s not as simple as you make it out to be. Some people need the stuff, and hospitals being funded largely on patient satisfaction is another reason they are heavily incentivized to keep people pain free.

@@kikilo9647 i got all 4 of my wisdom teeth removed at once and was in a lot of pain so my surgeon prescribed me 3 days worth of Vicodin. I never got addicted to the stuff and was just fine taking Ibuprofen for the next couple of days afterwards. It's not a death sentence for everyone.

@@jakobbauz A brilliant actor named Richard Kind.

@@moo639 he is grand. I always remember George Clooney's prank on him, and his cat I suppose.

I have it and I can’t wait to read it. I also recommend Dopesick both the book and limited series.

@@gissellest333 I also recommend Barbara Kingsolver's fabulous new novel Demon Copperhead. A fictional perspective on the opioid epidemic.

I'm amazed that people don't join the dots, with this information in the public domain, the backlash towards healthy people that chose not to get the CVD V was incredible. These companies are all the same

​@@philblake5074 Most of those "healthy" unvaxed people are either dead, hospitalized, and/or experiencing long COVID. Turns out when you are infected by a deadly virus, people die.

i like the universe where they literally go to hell

I like the universe where they're stripped of all their assets and go to jail for life. And the money from their assets and holdings are used for opioid addiction treatment and payments to families.

After all assets an accounts seized: Judge: "For crimes against humanity, the court has made the decision to adjudicate you guilty. Bailiffs, please remand the defendant into custody of the Bureau of Prisons." Max-security prison too not some bullshit federal camp. Even people who murdered haven't caused this much misery

@@iand4374 I agree, this is pretty much mass murder in the name of profit. You should really make an example out of them. And if you add up all the dead. You see they pretty much killed more people than Stalin...

Take away the “thousand” and it’s better. If I did the same shit they did, I’d be in prison for LIFE. The only crime I’d commit in the eyes of our system is not making enough money to settle for millions.

That part.

Sad, ain’t it?!?

It is horrifying, but it could get worse. I wouldn't be surprised if someone who is being silenced tries to kill a bunch of Sacklers. Honestly, I would blame them for it either.

Or....that it's all LEGAL!!!!!!!! 😳

Dunno why but made me think of back in college sociology class. TAUGHT about dead peasants funds. I think maybe the Movie- Capitalism a love story talked about too. How Corporations take out life insurance on low level employees like walmart greater. They die company gets millions family nothing. And they have death projections anually all these major companies. Sickening what they get away with.

Gloriously well said my friend

It’s cause he’s one of the only talk show hosts left that remembers how to do actual journalism. The rest rely on running gags and interviews with celebs, he actually manages to competent journalism and keep it entertaining the whole time. Jon Steward would be proud.

I feel like John Oliver carries the torch of John Stewart’s Daily Show moreso than Trevor Noah

Speak truth to authority. It's scary as HELL. But it's the TRUTH! It will eventually win! FIND YOUR VOICE!! (MAGA morons: siddown and shut up: we're discussing "truth" here, a concept you are blissfully unaware of.)

I absolutely agree, I take journalism classes and only my amazing teacher, after 17 years of living, made me realize what journalism should be and it's just that, and I'll be damned if I'm not impressed by people like this

Purdue has plenty of critics. As they should.

Yeah, big ones after they've already lost multiple lawsuits and there is a mini series on Hulu coming out on the Sacklers. Way ahead of the curve 🙄

Ya, he talked about them in April of 2019 last calling them out, but now he took it to another level. I hope the Sackler's don't try a pointless SLAP suit to try to shut John and his crew up.

@@mycoinsyourpurse2244 They do. But John is particularly agressive. I think he’s great.

That isn't Joseph Stalins quote

Billionaire shoots himself . . . into space

maybe next episode he'll finally say the C word (c*pital*sm)

@roughly 60,000 bees It really seems like he and the writers want to. Do they have to keep that contained since, ya know, product of corporate media? Or is it basically just outrage porn to keep the masses sated without engendering any actual change? I really have a hard time telling one way or the other.

Many of us were hoping to hear the phrase "horrible explosion" when at least one of the three prince prick of all pricks went up in space.

Which one was it a jab at? Or just the few active in the space game?

Need to close that loophole for sure

May DOG bless these United Sh*tholes Of America - land of the fee and home of the $lave!

Like a green ogre once said, " ONIONS HAVE LAYERS, OGRE HAVE LAYERS! "🙏

YES!!!

They could counter that by saying the company got a death penalty and ceased to exist.

Not after death they won't.

The only thing Escobar did wrong was not pay taxes /s

Yeah, exactly

@@wolfeblister2503 To rephrase it. "The only thing Escobar did wrong was not give gov their Cut."

It all comes down to taxes. Escobar's assets went untaxed and apparently that simply will not fly...

Even el chapo could have done that too

"The death of one man: this is a catastrophe. Hundreds of thousands of deaths: that is a statistic!" - Incorrectly attributed to Josef Stalin.

Well duh, they just classified all of the deaths as "enemy combatants".

So true. It's disgusting.

@@FranFerioli Josef Bai Stalin with the slammers!!!

it's also called capitalism

I'd be interested to see any bank accounts that guy has, and if he suddenly came into a windfall from somewhere.

Put hIum in prison for taking blood money, corrupt judge.

Wouldn't that be harassment you manipulative creep.

@@michaelduncan3261 What's your deal? Do you _work_ for these shitty people? And it's not harassment to complain to a judge, who is an officer of the government.

i would think actual enforcement of laws would do a lot more then more nonprofits..

This issue is far from ignored. The other issue relating to this that IS being ignored is that the DEA is in it to make $ too. Expose that John! I dare you.

@@flyingcheff he won’t

@@estefaniaj7143 Yeah, you're right.

Greetings! ...from Portland, OR.

Likewise. Best wishes to all of you in Iran. Cheers from cloudy Austria, Scott

Greetings from Hungary

until he starts talking crap about your nation and making fun of it.

Sending you warmth from Florida, ❣️.

Yeah, but that would create class consciousness and we can’t have that. Baseless racism is easier to control.

They can criminalize the middlemen because they pay off the lawmakers duuuuh

@@BlitzkriegOmega well actual cartels exist so it's not really baseless or racist to depict them.

It seems it is still fiction however as the Sacklers still go on as a company.

Don't have to imagine, just watch a Michael Bay movie.

Imagine going to a bank and robbing yourself. Every day. For years. And having the government blame the bank for you.

I feel like the tellers would be the primary care physicians who got kickbacks for prescribing this stuff. Was like robbing a bank, but only the customers, which you then proceed to execute- then you say "see you guys next week" to the tellers, while kicking past the corpses on your way out.

May DOG bless these United Sh*tholes Of America - land of the fee and home of the $lave!

And not having to serve any time. Crazy right.

I will believe that corporations are people when Texas executes one.

They have turned justice into something they can control and are well versed in: a negotiation.

What if I told you. The suffering and misery of the Poor wasn't natural selection The Law of Natural but the Misery is because of our Man Made Institutions. In my home country Rich People aren't above the law. If you ruins lives you go to Prison if you are lucky. Unlucky you're exiled to a inhospitable land like New Jersey.

May DOG bless these United Sh*tholes Of America - land of the fee and home of the $lave!

Exactly 🤦‍♂️

"And the reason I know that..." 🤣

How can we fund the domain ownership?

Since u work in medicine listen to my anecdote :p. I live in a country where opiods are never prescribed. Pain management sucks ass in Kuwait. I went to the statez for a while and they gave me like a month supply of duluadid to take home. It was 4mg too

Im not sure what im trying to say but its a mixed signal. Pain management is a great thing but damn do they over do it

Agreed. I don’t see anyone doing anything like that where I work. Thankfully.

Don't forget that our federal government has allowed this sh!t to go on because they're owned by these worthless humans.

@@Froggeh92 WOAH! That’s insane.

The cocaine traffic has horrible and violent consequences and effects in South America. I think you meant to say weed. People who sell cocaine are trash (in no way comparable to the sacklers....but not so far off)

​@@ykMMDAll that started in the 70's when the US under Nixon made it illegal... the drug war was racist right from the start. We know because he recorded himself talking about it. Raegan's white house did the whole iran contra thing too. Archer: Vice story arc was literally what the US did, lol

Same. All 6 of my closest homies are gone from high school 10 years since graduating. I'm the only one left. And I still constantly struggle with addiction. It has ruined every good thing I've ever had. I hate it.

@@curiodyssey3867 I'm so sorry for so much loss in your life. I hope you can get better too. Keep fighting the good fight.

1/3 of your high school graduating class. And these scumbags get to keep their money without any repercussions. I don't even have the words.

That's just jaw-dropping. I can't believe these drug dealers get to skate on this. Even if they didn't know in the beginning, at some point it had to be evident, and they could have made different choices. They could have stopped selling it, and focused on treating the addiction.

A *third of your graduating class*? Uh, that's "Opiates IV", John, right there.

Only if they can't prove you did it. Having a corporation helps with that ofc, but it's not an automatic get out of jail free card

Then the corporation goes to prison of course

@@AirAtNight6977 You say that, and if the system worked correctly that would be the case, but the system does not work and it is currently an automatic get out of jail free card.

I remember when they told us that corporations are people...

Yes, that is exactly how it works, but only if you have the right lawyers.

I can’t. You’re absolutely correct. Great point with the right economy of words.

"Change my mind" Meh Not a good use of that cliche

I'm not trying to change your mind, but I will say that PhD's are a lot of work. Typically it takes 4 years for an undergrad and 3-4 years for the PhD. And that doesn't include if you choose to do a Master's which is about 2 years on average. At the end of the day, I may not like her or what she stands for, but I will respect her degree and the work she put into it.

@@sarahcantrell7142 That is true I have to admit that it's a lot of work, and I would know as my brother plans to get one, but I would have respected hers if all she got out of it wasn't so that people shouldn't "fuck with her".

@@sarahcantrell7142 True. Which is why I was surprised not to find any research paper written by Joss Sackler, except for one mention on a seminary, where she isn't listed as in a university for some reason... Seems iffy at best. Studying linguistics myself so I was interested to see what her research is about

I wonder if Spain can file a lawsuit to these depraved beings or international court

@@thenullvoidabyss They should.

Dear God

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Excuse me? I'm Spanish and that has not exactly happened. Spain has a national healthcare system. Doctors do not prescribe opioids happily. There has been an increase in deaths because of opioid medication in those older than 65, but it's about 8 to 12 times less than the American statistics. A Spanish physician usually studies at a state-paid university. They do not pay 400.000 for their medical degree. They make less money, but they are very encouraged to treat the SOURCE of the pain, not the pain itself with strong sedatives. Apparently fentanyl is being used in the illegal drug trade, but legal opioids have to go (for most people at least) through the Instituto Nacional de la Seguridad Social, which is the national healthcare system (akin to the British' NHS). Again, the doctors here come from state-paid universities: they do not make lots of money (middle class-access level), but they do not owe tens of thousands of euros to the university. That means nearly everyone with a vocation for medicine or nursing actually gets into medical college. Most of the workers at the Seguridad Social system are vocational and owe their formation to the Spanish taxpayers'. Very few of them (if any of them at all) studied medicine to become rich. The chances of them prescribing opiates exceedingly is very low. There's also the fact that pain is your body's way of screaming. Dulling the pain is akin to covering your body's mouth, but will not solve the underlying problem. Unless in cases of chronic pain, dulling pain is done only in order to allow the patient to wait until surgery, rehabilitation or whatever treatment is needed. You might get something until that tooth gets pulled out... And sometimes you do not get even that. Because if your back hurts you should lose the weight and sign up for swimming; if your teeth hurt you should get it pulled or treated. Opiates are for those in paliative care, the ones who are near death or something like that. For pain units in certain hospitals, acupuncture may be tried before opiates. So, yes, there was a bit of an increase, but nothing remotely close to a crisis, because the system makes it hard for such a crisis to occur. To begin with, doctors at the INSS get rewarded for prescribing less, not more. If they can avoid a prescription, they will (if they cannot, they will tell whoever politician is trying to implement budget cuts to fuck off, but they normally do not fight for opiates, but for other types of medication). That said... I'd love for us to sue those bastards. I do not think you have a chance with Spain, but you might want to try the United Kingdom, I have read they had trouble there.

You need smarter friends.

@@michaelduncan3261 My buddy Dave was one of the smartest people I've ever known. We would talk for hours about anthropology, human origins, futurism, biology... all kinds of things. Addiction doesn't care about your intelligence, your income, your morals, or your social status. Addiction is a disease.

I'm sorry that you lost friends in this ghastly opioid epidemic.

@@michaelduncan3261 Djeezus. Who hurt you?

In the nineties half dozen of my friends died from Oxycontin overdose. But in 2020 70,000 Americans died from Fentanyl poisoning. Are the Sacklers members of the CCP? With the Opioid epidemic the only workable and proven solution is substitution therapy. But Methadone is not enough. We cannot successfully legislate human nature. Good luck.

So if you are poor you can expect to be punished to the full extent of the law... but if you are wealthy you can buy your way out... that is Not justice.

So that's what LLC stands for, I never cared enough to learn

. . . but isn't this what we want as Americans, _unregulated_ (or unchained) business? According to some theorists, that is when they do their _best_ work, which means make their largest profits. Look at the history of it, then do the math. Everyone dreams of working for companies like this, until something like this happens. Then they dream of suing a company like this. Capitalism can't protect us, but it can turn profits. Lawsuits are the answer to keeping the system loose. It's the best we can do, but it won't prevent this from happening again.

Honestly, I don't get it...

@@fatbgmanbg975 The thing to get is that corporations are not people, and shouldn't be treated as such

Soon... soon...

Oh I like that, I’m definitely going to use that one.

That is the most legendary take down of a nonsensical fascist legal concept ever.

I know! They're fantastic!

Do you work in the graphics department by any chance. You can’t see me but I’m doing those suspicious eyes thingy

Ok

Absolutely I was thinking I want a poster of that or I need that image to place on my ig story

they've been top-notch all season

And murdering her with words🤣🤣🤣

‘God’ damn You do know that, right?

@@Zerpersande He wrote it wrong to piss off the linguists

@@Zerpersande Obviously you're not a linguist, or you'd know about AAVE.

John oliver is a gangster everyday chooses violence lol

the word you're looking for is "corporations" not "cooperations"

@Tom Simons ᨆ That's allegedly a rickroll wrapped in a bad cat video, now go away and spam somewhere else.

It's almost like the legal system is corrupted by corporate influence, isn't it?

Corporation, not cooperation.

...You realize that is the entire point of the modern versions of corporations, right? They are legal loopholes, specifically created to allow people to break the law. It started when the US government realized we would have to do really, really crappy things if we wanted to build the railroads, so they created the modern corporation to shield railroad developers from prosecution. At the time, they only existed for a specific time frame, for a specific project...but as time went on more and more owners of businesses said "I want me some of this unlimited power" and the amount and length of corporations skyrocketed.

That's our boy Oliver for you

It’s perfectly fine to end a sentence with a preposition in English. That bullshit was started by pedants who decided that since Latin - the perfect language in their eyes - sentences couldn’t end with a preposition, neither should English sentences.

@@CantankerousDave That is such an idiotic rule. English is not a Romance language, it doesn’t fit the grammatical conventions of Latin.

So are linguists grammar nazis with a Phd,? I don't understand and how does it help you sell Oxy?

@@MGMachete234 knowing how to properly phrase legal paperwork as to avoid legal action, as seen throughout this video, I bet.

Dang, what did I do wrong. I've broken five bones and every single time i got told to get over the counter painkillers.

Spit take!

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So sorry you had to go through this. Thank you for sharing your story, and happy to hear you survived!

Hey man i just saw your comment in the middle of all the older ones, I can't imagine what all this must feel like, and how conflicting that must be. Just that I hope you have other people surrounding you to support you through those feelings. If not, reach out! I know a random message from a stranger is not going to ease things up, but idk I felt like trying to send sorta positive vibes. You deserve to live a happy life :)

Your story is really important and valid. We have to remember that purdue/the sacklers were not educated or ignored education on how to safely use opioids. oxycontin addiction was probably so much more damaging because of drug reps pushing higher dosages for profit and pushing doctors to prescribe for even the most minor of pain. it should have stayed for severe pain and severe pain only.