{"id":30014,"date":"2019-04-24T14:44:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T14:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/?p=30014"},"modified":"2019-05-01T14:47:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T14:47:25","slug":"former-ceo-of-drug-distribution-company-becomes-first-to-face-charges-for-american-opioid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/2019\/04\/former-ceo-of-drug-distribution-company-becomes-first-to-face-charges-for-american-opioid-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CEO Of Drug Distribution Company Becomes First To Face Charges For American Opioid Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>NEWS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Laurence Doud III, the former CEO of a major drug distribution company, has become the first person to face criminal charges related to America&#8217;s opioid drug crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>COMMENT<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Since the late 1990s there has been a rapid increase in the use of prescription opioid drugs. By 2011 these drugs had risen to become the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/04\/110405161906.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most prescribed class of medications<\/a>\u00a0in the United States. Chemically related to heroin, and with similar devasting effects on health, prescription opioids are highly addictive. As a result, they are now contributing to the deaths of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/11\/29\/upshot\/fentanyl-drug-overdose-deaths.html\">more than 70,000<\/a>\u00a0Americans a year.<\/p>\n<p>While Laurence Doud III may be the first to face criminal charges over America\u2019s opioid crisis, he should not be the last. Ultimately, the pharmaceutical \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/2017\/08\/the-laws-of-the-pharmaceutical-industry\/\">business with disease<\/a>\u2019 will only be terminated when the people responsible for maintaining it are brought to account for their crimes.<\/p>\n<p>To learn why we say it is time to treat the Pharma Cartel like the Tobacco Cartel, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/2018\/03\/the-american-opioid-epidemic-time-to-treat-the-pharma-cartel-like-the-tobacco-cartel\/\">this article<\/a> on our website.<\/p>\n<a class=\"button  button_left button_size_2 button_js\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/former-ceo-of-drug-company-first-to-face-charges-in-opioid-crisis\/ar-BBWdnZw\" target=\"_blank\"    ><span class=\"button_icon\"><i class=\"icon-right-open-big\" ><\/i><\/span><span class=\"button_label\">Read news story at msn.com<\/span><\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS Laurence Doud III, the former CEO of a major drug distribution company, has become the first person to face criminal charges related to America&#8217;s opioid<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[121],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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