President Donald Trump pledged to hold big pharma responsible for its role in fuelling America’s opioid crisis, which is killing 130 people a day.
President Donald Trump said he does not want money from big pharmaceutical companies because of their contribution to America’s deadly opioid crisis.
“The Department of Justice has prosecuted more than 3,000 defendants in cases involving opioids. Earlier this week, the United States filed criminal charges against the sixth largest drug wholesaler for illicit distribution of opioids. In both cases, the figures represent a fraction of the total money raised by their campaigns, which was $333,127,164 for Trump and $563,756,928 for Clinton.On Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan indicted Rochester and two of its former top executives for unlawfully distributing oxycodone and fentanyl—a synthetic opioid 50 times stronger than heroin—and conspiring to defraud the Drug Enforcement Administration .
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