part of why it s true is that i is a cash product for transnational criminal organizations based in mexico. we shouldn t think of this cartel is like a drug gang. if they think of them as a multinational corporation that is engaged in black-market drug sales. they bring in precursor chemicals from china, they make the pills themselves in pill factories in northern mexico, and they ship it en masse acros the border and they are making lot of money doing it. so this is a cash flow issue fo them. they are going to keep doing it and keep producing as much of this stuff as they possibly can as long as we let them as long as the border policies are what they are, they re not going to stop. we need to update our assumptions great it s not 1955 and we re not leading in dozens to go to the central valley and help our egg center.
welcome back to our special hardball event called the deciders. rhonda has been a nurse for 30 years and calls the opioid crisis a nightmare. tell us what we need to know. we have big pharma in charge making profits off of getting the opioids to the citizens. they are pushing drugs through doctors? i believe so, yes. i think as long as they are making a profit doing so. do you know the doctor? do you have any evidence of what you just said? i know there are lots of pill factories and drug factories. what do you think could be done?
do you have any evidence of what you just said? i know there are lots of pill factories and drug factories. what do you think could be done? i think we need preventive health care. we need to have medicare for all so that people have thank you. let me go to anita. tell us about i m the expectative director andy feel like the gaps, foa is one of the gaps and we are not getting funding from anybody. not federally or anything else. we are working on trying to support the family, making the family healthy. when the person gets the rehab, they are able to have a supportive family to back up that rehab instead of relapse as many times as it s happening. we need to have the person who
bill: stossel matter segment tonight according to the substance abuse and mental health administration growing oxycontin epidemic in this country. young people especially buying prescription pills on the black market that can easily lead to addiction even death as we saw with michael jackson prescription drugs can kill you. here now to talk about drug legalization libertarian guy john stossel. now, you want drugs legalized in general. you stated that. but this oxycontin thing is now an epidemic. some of the stats are unbelievable. more than 6 million americans have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes. 6 million. in the 12th grade 5% of seniors in high school have used this addictive terribly addictive drug. and the reason they can use it is because it s quasilegalized. you can buy it on the internet. pill factories, doctors writing prescriptions to people they know are bogus and getting them out and selling them. you still think that s okay. no. i don t think it s okay that the
bill: stossel matter segment tonight according to the substance abuse and mental health administration growing oxycontin epidemic in this country. young people especially buying prescription pills on the black market that can easily lead to addiction even death as we saw with michael jackson prescription drugs can kill you. here now to talk about drug legalization libertarian guy john stossel. now, you want drugs legalized in general. you stated that. but this oxycontin thing is now an epidemic. some of the stats are unbelievable. more than 6 million americans have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes. 6 million. in the 12th grade 5% of seniors in high school have used this addictive terribly addictive drug. and the reason they can use it is because it s quasilegalized. you can buy it on the internet. pill factories, doctors writing prescriptions to people they know are bogus and getting them out and selling them. you still think that s okay. no. i don t think it s okay that the