Purdue pharmaceuticals plans to help curb the opioid crisis with...opiates.

As if the healthcare industry can't possibly get more corrupt and devastating to the health of Americans, the Sackler billionaire family behind Purdue Pharmaceuticals is planning on rolling out a new opiate-based medication that slightly helps reduce the withdrawal symptoms from the opioids that they got people addicted to in the first place (they created oxycontin).

The Free Thought project explains in detail:

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/billionaires-who-addicted-the-us-to-oxycontin-to-make-opiate-addiction-treatment-containing-opiates/

Currently Purdue is dealing with 300 or so lawsuits related to lying to the public about the addictive nature of their drugs.  Now we have over 115 dying per day from opioids, of which Purdue plays a huge role.

The solution to these problems, especially the sheer size and power of these pharmaceutical cartels, is fairly simple in my opinion: boycott.

While I do drink alcohol which isn't much better than an opioid, I contribute exactly zero dollars to big pharmaceutical companies.  I don't use any single prescription or over the counter medications.

If you absolutely have to use a pharmaceutical, as in a rare seizure condition or something equally as rare, of course do this.  But by keeping ourselves healthy we can "starve the beast" which is my preferred solution to problems like this.  If we're healthy then we don't need the drugs and these companies shrivel up and vanish.

Opioids can work wonders for short term use.  I fractured my AC joint (acromioclavicular...collarbone meets shoulder) and went on three days of Vicodin.  But that was it.  This is what mainstream medicine is for IMO.  Fix my injury, heal me up, and then do not contact me unless I have another emergency.  I do not want anything to do with the medical industry unless I need them right away.

What's going on with this current crisis is akin to this analogy: 

Say I throw a rock through your window.  I come up and you are frustrated because your window is broken.  You're looking for a repair man.  I tell you that I can repair the window, and it will cost you $100 to do so.  So you pay me, the person who broke your window, to fix it.  You lose a window and $100 from the same person.

That's what this is turning into.  A company creates an epidemic of death and addiction, then comes in and claims to have the solution, only its not a natural solution but another source of profit with little to do with the well being of people in general that are caught in the crisis.