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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3295307" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Again, read the transcript.&nbsp; Many thousands of people got hooked on pain killers that doctors were told were safe to prescribe.&nbsp; Then the pharmaceutical companies set up &quot;pain management&quot; clinics in these areas to sell mega millions of pills without oversight because a Republican congressman working on their behalf got the DEA to look the other way.&nbsp; Not saying no deaths occurred because of heroin, only that this huge epidemic was actually fueled by several greedy companies.&nbsp; And most likely many of the people who died were seeking other ways to satisfy their addiction and turned to heroin.&nbsp; But the reason they were hooked to begin with wasn&#039;t the black market pushing heroin, it was major pharmaceutical companies looking to make huge profits and literally flooding towns with pills and making them cheap and easy to obtain.&nbsp; 60 Minutes isn&#039;t a bastion of conservatism, and they don&#039;t just throw out anything hoping it&#039;ll stick like some news outlets do.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 3295307, member: 24302"] Again, read the transcript. Many thousands of people got hooked on pain killers that doctors were told were safe to prescribe. Then the pharmaceutical companies set up "pain management" clinics in these areas to sell mega millions of pills without oversight because a Republican congressman working on their behalf got the DEA to look the other way. Not saying no deaths occurred because of heroin, only that this huge epidemic was actually fueled by several greedy companies. And most likely many of the people who died were seeking other ways to satisfy their addiction and turned to heroin. But the reason they were hooked to begin with wasn't the black market pushing heroin, it was major pharmaceutical companies looking to make huge profits and literally flooding towns with pills and making them cheap and easy to obtain. 60 Minutes isn't a bastion of conservatism, and they don't just throw out anything hoping it'll stick like some news outlets do. [/QUOTE]

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