nonprofit, the american pain foundation. sounds nice, right? nonprofit focused on reducing pain. except that the organization was basically a front for big pharma. it received 90% of its funding from medical companies. some of their board members had financial ties to drugmakers and the health swamp is like no other. it s literally killing people while enriching those to play the game. steve: joining us now to analyze, john wolf, a former drug czar under george w. bush. and a senior editor, jacob sullivan. i wanted to start with you because there s so much to unpack. one of the issues is whether tom moreno who has been nominated for your old job should continue in that process, given his support for legislation which
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foundation. sounds nice, right? and nonprofit focused on reducing pain. except the organization was basically a fronts for big pharma. it received 90% of its funding from medical companies, some of their board members have extensive financial ties to drug makers and the group lobbies against limits on of your use. the most commercially successful of the new opioids is actually content. it was released in 1996 by purdue farmer with the promise that the drug to be prescribed would last risk of a book abuse and addiction. well, that turned out to be a lie. in 2007 purdue farmer paid $600 million in fines and three executives pled guilty to felony misbranding over oxycontin. don t feel too sorry for them. it is owned by the. [inaudible] family. in 2015 with the opioid epidemic that they helped cause raging through our country, guess where
official guidelines for prescribing drugs too. high cholesterol, eight out of nine doctors who wrote the recent national cholesterol guidelines received money from manufacturers. the psychiatrist responsible for over diagnosing children with adhd received $1.6 million for the manufacturers of the drugs used to treat it. the whole thing stinks. perhaps none of the swampy behavior is a disgraceful as the pharmaceutical industry s role in the opioid epidemic which killed 52000 americans last year. the health crisis is so bad it starting trying to drive life expectancy down in the us. for most of the last century the terrible addiction that opioids cause meant that they were shunned as a treatment for pain but that all changed in the 1990s when a large-scale lobbying and public relations effort to make opioids acceptable. part of it was run by a nonprofit, the american pain
prescribing drugs too. high cholesterol, eight out of nine doctors who wrote the recent national cholesterol guidelines received money from manufacturers. the psychiatrist responsible for over diagnosing children with adhd received $1.6 million for the manufacturers of the drugs used to treat it. the whole thing stinks. perhaps none of the swampy behavior is a disgraceful as the pharmaceutical industry s role in the opioid epidemic which killed 52000 americans last year. the health crisis is so bad it starting trying to drive life expectancy down in the us. for most of the last century the terrible addiction that opioids cause meant that they were shunned as a treatment for pain but that all changed in the 1990s when a large-scale lobbying and public relations effort to make opioids acceptable. part of it was run by a nonprofit, the american pain foundation.