Health Economics
In 2012, there were nearly 800 million doses of opioids prescribed in Ohio alone -- a figure which equates to roughly 70 pills for every individual in the state. The prescriptions were for 20% of the state's populace (Semuels, 2017). What's more is that these prescriptions are not helping people; on the contrary, as Katz (2017) reports, "drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death among Americans under 50." It is so bad that the country is now essentially addicted to pills and it is literally killing us.
The causes of the opioid crisis are directly related to the Sackler brothers who pioneered the art of Big Pharma's role in advertising and making relationships with physicians in prescribing drugs to patients (Mariani, 2015). The Sacklers pushed OxyContin onto the market and turned the country into a drug-dependent nation. This was purely a profit before people type of play. The Sackler Brothers were interested in one thing: getting their drug to market, despite warning signs that it might not be safe. Once that was achieved, they controlled the market and got Americans hooked.
This crisis could be contained or managed by eviscerating Big Pharma. The industry's relationship with. gov is corrupt and the oversight that should be regulating the industry simply is non-existent. Government and Big Pharma work hand in hand to enrich the few at the expense of the many. And so of course Big Pharma cannot really be eviscerated until our own government is eviscerated. It is a pay-to-play scheme all the way around and nothing will change until Washington changes. People need psychological help and instead of getting the help they need from doctors, the doctors are over-prescribing and making the situation worse.
This is not an economic problem but rather a social problem. Economics is but an effect of social interaction. Because our society, socially speaking, has been crippled -- families eviscerated, communities gutted by offshoring, and values and morals corrupted by agendas that are neither organic to America nor healthy for society have come to dominate the mainstream. In such an atmosphere it is impossible for anyone to receive the kind of...
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