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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 368: The opioid crisis and big pharma
Description: The boys drink and review a hazy IPA from Sam Adams, then discuss the opioid crisis and big pharma.
Corporations are not necessarily evil. As a rule, they do important work that provides a service people are happy to pay for. But from time to time you get some bad eggs.
The Sackler family is an example. They took advantage of a new class of drug, and new thinking about how to manage pain, and lied and cheated their way to riches. They convinced the medical community that opioids weren't addictive. (Based on one questionable...