I am more aghast at the pharma barons that have retained their wealth, as that was a quick cycle of unequal riches and ruin that looked nothing like the impact

I am more aghast at the pharma barons that have retained their wealth, as that was a quick cycle of unequal riches and ruin that looked nothing like the impact of coal upon society (as it was able to empower industrialization for a long duration). There was no long-duration benefit to OxyContin mass-marketing. That the Sackler family remains at liberty is conclusive proof that the FDA was bought and owned on the question of opioids, and had no ability or intention of acting in the public good. Most other countries would have stopped this. A similar theme pervades most of the checks and balances of the U.S. Constitution in general. These were brilliant controls in 1789 that have long since been disabled by an ocean of cash.