Premium Episode 76: Opioids Are The Real Plandemic

“We keep hearing about our drug on the rap songs.”

Nope pointing out Perdue’s misdeeds is not anti-semetic, but it is worth bearing in mind that Perdue to some extent became the fall guy for all the other companies, who were all overselling opiates and playing down the dangers to some extent. It’s just Perdue were super-blatant. The thing that is the real story to me, and does not get investigated is why so many Americans were in pain in the first place. Think about the whole ‘works three jobs’ thing. Think about Amazon warehouses with ibuprofen dispensers for staff whose bodies won’t conform to the rigours of ‘just in time delivery’ To me the opiate crisis is a physical parallel to America’s debt crisis, just as the US economy relies on debt and households max their credit cards to stay afloat financially in the hope of a better tomorrow - or out of necessity to survive today, opiate pain meds are a way of surviving the rigours of working too much in a system with a poor social safety net and expensive health care. It’s people racking up a debt of addiction to get through their unsustainable lives

Deepstate9

Drug nerd note: suboxone is buprenorphine with added naloxone to prevent injection (doesn’t always work) and a lemon & lime flavour. Subutex is the brand name for buprenorphine. What Perdue developed was a fast dissolving wafer delivery of buprenorphine, as users had worked out how to swallow and regurgitate the pills for later IV use or resale

Deepstate9

finally realized what you meant here lol, fixed now

QAnon Anonymous

"Mr. Sackler please don't patent anymore opioids"

Tryhard Radio

A helpful and eye opening book on this that Travis read to prepare for this episode is Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit And The Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic by Barry Meier

QAnon Anonymous

thanks king

QAnon Anonymous

Thanks for including source reading for each episode. Are there any books on the role of marketing in the opioid epidemic you'd recommend?

k 0

The real conspiracy is where did episodes 76-91 go

Alex Jones

I'm a surgeon who prescribes opiates on the regular. Have to log in and check a database to see where else patients are getting it, and I do not prescribe more than a few days at a time (except hemorrhoids.... hemorrhoid people get as much as they want because anything else is a war crime

Molly Jane Cyr

Julian your sound editing is top notch

Steve Stankiewicz

It's not an antisemitic shibboleth, it's just a material reality about a wealthy family and the business practices of the company they owned. Acting like Jake, Travis, and Julian are regurgitating Nazi propaganda by accurately identifying some of the principal actors in the opioid epidemic is like pretending that Ilhan Omar was playing into the hands of Richard Spencer when she pointed out AIPAC has a lil bit of clout in Washington. It's deflection. The fact that alt-right dipshits have a bad opinion of a person does not in fact mean that person is good; that way lies veneration of Bill Gates, or fawning profiles of monsters like the recently-rehabilitated Dubya. We can be nuanced and objective in evaluating the Sacklers, and even leaving aside the obviously antisemitic narratives surrounding the family it's STILL pretty obvious that they're callous businessmen who worried more about profits than human lives.

Will Hubbert

Thank for for doing this!

This show is pretty good about pointing out when conspiracy boogiemen are stand-ins for jews. Stopped clock moment?

Worst, Most Lamentable Dust Man

This episode is highly antisemitic. Neo-nazis have been pushing this 'Sacklers addicted the country to opoids' shibboleth for years.

Seth Aronovich

My dad was overprescribed for 12 years and then cut off cold turkey by physicians. I can’t believe he survived. watching his cognitive decline during that time was horrible. once he got off them his cognitive issues reversed a bit, but it’s hard to think about how badly these drugs affected him and prematurely aged him.

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