By justina colmena ~biz in drugs —

Mexican drug cartels have gained a sheen of legitimacy

Or color of law. As seemingly legal but in reality not so, as powerful steroids and other federally scheduled controlled substances are made widely available by prescription and sold at low-class pharmacies at every street corner

Wisconsin couple sues Walgreens and Optum Rx, saying son died after $500 price rise for asthma meds
A Wisconsin couple is suing Walgreens and a pharmacy benefits management company, alleging that their son died because he couldn’t afford a sudden $500 spike in his asthma medication. Shanon and William Schmidtknecht, of Poynette, filed their lawsuit in federal court in Milwaukee on Jan. 21, a year to the day that their son Cole died at age 22. According to the lawsuit, Cole Schmidtknecht suffered from asthma all his life.
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Getting people hooked on drugs and then suddenly raising prices to an extortionate level is a classic drug cártel strategy on the part of Big Pharma and other sick-care companies which profit systematically from human suffering and illness.

Compare to Big Tobacco. Some people smoke and others dislike the odor, or the nicotine stains or the smoke being blown in their faces, but that is a more a matter of taste and personal ettiquette, as we have since discovered that Big Marijuana was been behind many of the class-action lawsuits brought against Big Tobacco.

Regardless of smoking habits, you are endangering your health if you do not get enough fresh air. Move out of that drug-infested downtowner apartment with the leaking and moldy ventilation system and get a real job with more of your own space and air to breathe.

Asthma, autism, and peanut allergies are all part of a class of mass-marketed and strip-mall clinic-treated suburban illnesses endemic to bourgeois neighborhoods of sufficient income to support the physicians’ office visit fees and drug prescription copays.