The Hidden Epidemic: How Corporate Greed Fuels the Opioid Crisis

This text explores how pharmaceutical companies aggressively marketed opioids as safe for chronic pain, significantly contributing to the current opioid crisis. It highlights how corporate strategies, like incentivizing sales and persuading doctors, led to a massive increase in prescriptions and subsequent addiction. The article emphasizes the devastating human and economic toll and discusses the limited legal accountability for these corporations and their executives. Finally, it touches upon the failures in regulation and proposes solutions to prevent future crises, focusing on reform and corporate responsibility.