Opioid Overdose Deaths by Race/Ethnicity

[ActionfigureJoe]

Whites are struggling. 
 

https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/opioid-overdose-deaths-by-raceethnicity/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel={"colId":"Location","sort":"asc"}

[Matt]

11 minutes ago, ActionfigureJoe said:

Whites are struggling. 
 

https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/opioid-overdose-deaths-by-raceethnicity/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel={"colId":"Location","sort":"asc"}

whole country is struggling, but the percentage of whites dying is below the percentage of the population they make up, so I'd say it's the minority groups who are struggling harder on a per-capita basis.

[MILFMAN]

It is a lot lower than I would have guessed.

[Highmark]

We can't give possible life saving safe treatments out for COVID yet Dr.'s prescribe Opioids like they are candy.  

[ActionfigureJoe]

21 minutes ago, Matt said:

whole country is struggling, but the percentage of whites dying is below the percentage of the population they make up, so I'd say it's the minority groups who are struggling harder on a per-capita basis.

Less treatment access and proper medical care for minorities is obvious. These numbers are pre covid. 2020 is dismal. 

[Zambroski]

Why is this about race.  Oh...just saw OP name.

Who fucking cares.  Cull thyself.

[ActionfigureJoe]

1 minute ago, Highmark said:

We can't give possible life saving safe treatments out for COVID yet Dr.'s prescribe Opioids like they are candy.  

Doctors, both civilian and VA, are prescribing far less opiates. The prescriptions of opiates for chronic pain management is way down. The main contributing factor to lethal OD’s is fentanyl. Very little heroin is available on the streets. 

[Highmark]

13 minutes ago, ActionfigureJoe said:

Doctors, both civilian and VA, are prescribing far less opiates. The prescriptions of opiates for chronic pain management is way down. The main contributing factor to lethal OD’s is fentanyl. Very little heroin is available on the streets. 

No doubt but much of the earlier addiction was from doctors over prescribing it.   When the can't get the phar versions they turn to the street version. 

Edited March 24, 2021 by Highmark

[ActionfigureJoe]

4 minutes ago, Highmark said:

No doubt but much of the earlier addiction was from doctors over prescribing it.   When the can't get the phar versions they turn to the street version. 

Very true. It was a perfect storm that lead to the opioid epidemic. Medicating chronic pain sufferers with high powered analgesics was the first mistake in a lengthy series of errors.  

[racer254]

38 minutes ago, Zambroski said:

Why is this about race.  Oh...just saw OP name.

Who fucking cares.  Cull thyself.

My thoughts exactly.  The real racists are the ones pushing these types of articles and studies.

[Zambroski]

1 hour ago, racer254 said:

My thoughts exactly.  The real racists are the ones pushing these types of articles and studies.

It can really be spun anyway the writer wants it to be spun.  The equivalent-opposing story would read, "Illegal Drug Overdose Deaths by Race/Ethnicity".

[racer254]

5 minutes ago, Zambroski said:

It can really be spun anyway the writer wants it to be spun.  The equivalent-opposing story would read, "Illegal Drug Overdose Deaths by Race/Ethnicity".

He brought this whole thing up before.  Trying so hard.

[Crowder]

50 minutes ago, ActionfigureJoe said:

Doctors, both civilian and VA, are prescribing far less opiates. The prescriptions of opiates for chronic pain management is way down. The main contributing factor to lethal OD’s is fentanyl. Very little heroin is available on the streets. 

I’m sure the heroin street supply will increase with the “open border”.  Stimulus check for the junkies. 

[racer254]

It seems that District of Columbia is way backwards.  HMMM wonder why that is.  LOL

[1jkw]

59 minutes ago, Highmark said:

No doubt but much of the earlier addiction was from doctors over prescribing it.   When the can't get the phar versions they turn to the street version. 

Not only over prescribing it, but getting rich for doing so and being fed false information on the addictive rates of the drugs, then once known some weren't willing to give up the free trips and dinners they were getting for continuing to prescribe.

[Wildboer]

1 hour ago, Matt said:

whole country is struggling, but the percentage of whites dying is below the percentage of the population they make up, so I'd say it's the minority groups who are struggling harder on a per-capita basis.

Non-Hispanic whites make up 60% of the total population, according to that data they account for 70% of all opioid overdose deaths... You have trouble with numbers or something? 

[Matt]

22 minutes ago, Wildboer said:

Non-Hispanic whites make up 60% of the total population, according to that data they account for 70% of all opioid overdose deaths... You have trouble with numbers or something? 

depends how you slice it up.  "White" are 76%.  The whole hispanic/latino thing muddies the waters

[Wildboer]

27 minutes ago, Matt said:

depends how you slice it up.  "White" are 76%.  The whole hispanic/latino thing muddies the waters

The opioid study clearly states "White, non-hispanic" ...which constitutes 60% of the overall population. You're the one slicing it up different to try and make it seem like whites overdose less often per capita.

[Angry ginger]

  

[Matt]

1 hour ago, Wildboer said:

The opioid study clearly states "White, non-hispanic" ...which constitutes 60% of the overall population. You're the one slicing it up different to try and make it seem like whites overdose less often per capita.

Missed that when I read it this morning.  My bad.

[Zambroski]

1 hour ago, Matt said:

Missed that when I read it this morning.  My bad.

Classy. 

 

[steve from amherst]

#1339 John Kapoor

 

PHOTO BY JAMEL TOPPIN

2018 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH

$1.8B

as of 3/6/18

 

• John Kapoor is the founder and former CEO and chairman of controversial opioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics.
• In October 2017 Kapoor was arrested and charged with conspiring to bribe doctors to needlessly prescribe fentanyl spray Subsys. He denied the charges.
• Insys has been embroiled in a legal controversy including multiple investigations in connection with the marketing and sales of fentanyl spray Subsys.
• He owns nearly 70% of Insys Therapeutics' shares.
• He also resigned in October 2017 as chairman of Akorn, which makes generic prescription drugs.

[snoughnut]

1 hour ago, steve from amherst said:

#1339 John Kapoor

 

PHOTO BY JAMEL TOPPIN

2018 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH

$1.8B

as of 3/6/18

 

• John Kapoor is the founder and former CEO and chairman of controversial opioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics.
• In October 2017 Kapoor was arrested and charged with conspiring to bribe doctors to needlessly prescribe fentanyl spray Subsys. He denied the charges.
• Insys has been embroiled in a legal controversy including multiple investigations in connection with the marketing and sales of fentanyl spray Subsys.
• He owns nearly 70% of Insys Therapeutics' shares.
• He also resigned in October 2017 as chairman of Akorn, which makes generic prescription drugs.

It appears the POS received some prison time any way. I think it's hilarious that this fucking asshole received a reduced sentence in part because of his philanthropy........like the guy is some kind of fucking hero because he used ill gotten gains to help others. Good lord I can't stand pieces of shit like this.

Pharmaceutical Executive John Kapoor Sentenced To 66 Months In Prison In Opioid Trial

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Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor was convicted in a bribery and kickback scheme that prosecutors said helped fuel the opioid crisis.

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Updated at 5:30 p.m. ET

Former billionaire and pharmaceutical executive John Kapoor has been sentenced to five years and six months in prison. His sentencing is the culmination of a months-long criminal trial in Boston's Moakley U.S. Courthouse that resulted in the first successful prosecution of pharmaceutical executives tied to the opioid epidemic.

The 76-year-old is the founder of Insys Therapeutics, which made and aggressively marketed the potent opioid painkiller Subsys.

Kapoor's 66-month prison term is substantially less than the 15-year sentence recommended by federal prosecutors, but it is more than the one year requested by Kapoor's defense attorneys, who maintained the executive's innocence and stressed his old age as reason for a short prison sentence.

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs explained that she reached the lesser sentence after considering Kapoor's advanced age and philanthropy, as well as "his central role in the crime," The Associated Press reported.

Kapoor and four other executives were found guilty last year of orchestrating a criminal conspiracy to bribe doctors to prescribe the company's medication, including to patients who didn't need it. They then lied to insurance companies to make sure the costly oral fentanyl spray was covered.

 

The painkiller, which was intended for cancer patients, could cost as much as $19,000 a month.

Two other executives pleaded guilty and became cooperating witnesses.

The other executives received between one year and 33 months, significantly less than many of the prison terms recommended by the federal prosecutors.

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Earlier on Thursday, Insys sales chief Alec Burlakoff was sentenced to 26 months in prison for his role in the bribery and fraud scheme.

"This was an offense of greed," Burroughs said before sentencing Burlakoff.

The sales executive hired a stripper as a Subsys sales representative to help persuade doctors to boost prescriptions. The woman, named Sunrise Lee, eventually was promoted to oversee a third of the company's sales force.

"I didn't think of who we were at Insys and how unethical what we were doing was," he told the judge on Thursday, according to Bloomberg. "The only thing I could think was how could I keep up with the fast and furious pace necessary to get ahead."

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For the federal government, this was a landmark trial in which corporate executives were charged under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, a charge often reserved for mob bosses and drug lords. Experts saw the trial as sending a message to drug companies that they will be held criminally accountable for their alleged role in fueling the opioid crisis.

"I think this is just the tip of the iceberg," said Brad Bailey, a former federal prosecutor and current defense attorney who has been following the Insys trial closely. "It's a template that prosecutors will continue to use."

 

While these seven Insys executives have been in court and awaiting sentencing, the company entered into an agreement with the government to settle criminal and civil investigations. Insys agreed to pay $225 million and admitted to the kickback scheme. Shortly after the agreement was announced, the company filed for bankruptcy.

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Bailey said that between the prison sentences and the company's financial woes, "there's no question that this was a cautionary tale to all executives."

Ameet Sarpatwari, a physician and the assistant director of Harvard University's Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law, thinks this trial will have a chilling effect on the pharmaceutical industry.

"It's an important warning to other pharmaceutical manufacturers and executives who may be considering pushing their products through aggressive, and possibly legally dubious, marketing schemes," said Sarpatwari. "The consequences for such actions may not simply be fines — which has historically simply been the cost of doing business — but possibly jail time."

However, he said, this successful prosecution does not mean the practices that contributed to overprescribing and addiction to opioids will go away.

"A lot of the activities that you see within the industry that are effective are technically legal. And so, if that's the case, is this going to curb those aggressive tactics? No, but it will give second thought to pushing the boundaries," said Sarpatwari. "I think that is going to be the hopefully helpful fallout of the case."

[Rod]

20 hours ago, Zambroski said:

Why is this about race.  Oh...just saw OP name.

Who fucking cares.  Cull thyself.

Very small minds segregate data into skin colour 

[ActionfigureJoe]

19 hours ago, Wildboer said:

The opioid study clearly states "White, non-hispanic" ...which constitutes 60% of the overall population. You're the one slicing it up different to try and make it seem like whites overdose less often per capita.

White kids are dying so it’s a big deal. The amount of federal and state money being funneled into the “opioid epidemic” makes one’s eyes bleed. Nothing like that is occurring to combat inner city violence. Nope