A woman on the internet you sort of are used to a certain amount of the rats or foul things coming to you but it was actually a the idea that i suggested even 6 or 7 years ago 6 years ago that the pharmaceutical companies were paying doctors and they were the ones pushing mass and thats what was pushing the Opioid Crisis and i got a lot of a lot of heat for it and now here we are and every. Also on this show we reported a couple of years ago about how the Sackler Family was going to look into after moving into the same thing Pain Management in china in africa and in india that company was of course monday farm out which is part of this big settlement so under this settlement Purdue Pharma gets restructured under chapter 11 bankruptcy that means that purdue goes from being a private company hauled by the sackler for. Into a public Beneficiary Trust so whatever they make from this point forward goes into a trust which then. All the profits go to plaintiffs in the case which of course as
A possible settlement to resolve thousands of federal and state lawsuits the Sackler Family would give up ownership of Purdue Pharma the company blamed for much of the opiate epidemic and pay 3000000000. 00 of their own money but for that but the punishment for the socceroos wouldnt end there the times goes on report that in addition to that there are 3000000000. 00 cash payout the sackless would sell another drug company they own monday pharma and contribute an additional 1500000000. 00 from the proceeds. This could essentially force the Sackler Family out of the opioid business to the tune of 4500000000. 00 just their own expenses but are just bankruptcies and fines and does that bring justice to the millions upon millions of lives destroyed by the Opioid Epidemic lets find out as we start watching the whole us. Go to. The. Real thing its like. As you said a lot of. What they like you know that i got. With. This. Is exactly. What the watching the harks i am tyrrel for the time topica
A new study on u. S. Suicide rates published last friday for some a grim and tragic trend and b c news reports that from 1999 to 2016 the rate of suicide among americans ages 25 to 64 rose by 41 percent and that rates among People Living in Rural Counties were 25 percent higher than those in major metropolitan areas. The study led by Danielle Steele smith a ph d. In the department of psychiatry and Behavioral Health out of Ohio State University also found that in counties where there was Little Health insurance and were veterans represent a larger part of the population suicide rates were even higher over that 18 year period since 1999 more than 450000 adults here in the United States have taken their own life as the los angeles time notes thats an up to fill more than 1000. 00 jumbo jets. So this tuesday as we celebrate World Suicide Prevention Day lets take a deep look into just what causes these most tragic of losses as we start watching. What. The. Real thing this week. As the plot
Our second panel is chris brummer, Research Professor director, institute of economic law, and University Law center. Our second witnesses katerina pastore, and columbia law school. Gendler who is professor of the practice of Global Economics and manager. Mit sloan school of management Senior Advisor to the director, Mit Media Lab and codirector of. The next witness will be robert wiseman, president , public citizen, and the final witness will be chief Strategy Officers. Welcome to all of you. Without objection, your written statements will be made part of the record. Each of you will have five minutes to summarize your testimony and with one minute remaining a yellow light will appear. At that time i will ask that you wrap up your testimony so that we can be respectful of both witnesses and Committee Members times. You are recognized for five minutes to present your testimony. Thank you so much. Members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify. Im here in my academic cap
Books and books and Miami Book Fair presented an evening with Cory Doctorow discussing choke point capitalism. How big tech and big content captured creative labor markets, and how well win them back. Choke point capitalism is a call action for the Creative Class and labor Labor Movement to rally against the power of big tech in big media. Cory doctorow is a best selling Science Fiction writer and activist. He is special advisor to the electronic frontier, with whom hes worked for 20 years. He is also a visiting professor of computer science, the open university and a Library Science at the university of North Carolina. He is also an Mit Media Lab researcher. Brilliant. He cofounded the cofounding uk open rights group and coowns the website boing boing. He is the author than 20 books, including novels for young adults, graphic novels for middle grade readers, picture books and nonfiction, books on technology politics. You can follow him twitter at doctorow. And before i think of any mo