Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

1/7 Chatting with a gardening pal today about poppies, I mention that my father was, for a while, the pointman purchasing seized opium out of SE Asia for Glaxo, now GSK, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. So, from where does Purdue Pharma source its opiates?

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @toxictiramisu Pharmacological war is Empire's model: a two-ledger narcotic economy. The 'drug war' and 'licit pain management'—flag and lab coat—feed the same beast. Law chooses the label but the balance sheet clears the same: planetary torment as brand, policy, business model and product.Quoted by@toxictiramisu Pharmacological war is Empire's model: a two-ledger narcotic economy. The 'drug war' and 'licit pain management'—flag and lab coat—feed the same beast. Law chooses the label but the balance sheet clears the same: planetary torment as brand, policy, business model and product.Quoted by@Einaudieditore @GhoshAmitav Empire, and planetary pain-management. Predictable, really, isn't it?Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @_Eric_Reinhart US medical ethics? Time, perhaps, to address global pain management, Empire-style, as a holistic totality.Quoted by@_Eric_Reinhart US medical ethics? Time, perhaps, to address global pain management, Empire-style, as a holistic totality.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @_Eric_Reinhart Especially telling, isn't it, American Medicine in a planetary light. Steiner: "Open and democratic societies are therapeutic. They endeavor to alleviate pain and lessen hatred. Bureaucracies of menace and abjection institutionalize pain." Clearly, a global reckoning is due us.Quoted by@_Eric_Reinhart Especially telling, isn't it, American Medicine in a planetary light. Steiner: "Open and democratic societies are therapeutic. They endeavor to alleviate pain and lessen hatred. Bureaucracies of menace and abjection institutionalize pain." Clearly, a global reckoning is due us.Quoted by@aIIegoricaI Here's part of the cause. Predictable, almost, isn't it?Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @AlanRMacLeod @MintPressNews World-class investigative journalism, Alan. Harrowing, revelatory, profound. And here’s useful, contextual clarification, relating to licit, as distinct from illicit, opioid production and distribution, globally. The American Empire and planetary pain-management? An unholy mess.Quoted by@AlanRMacLeod @MintPressNews World-class investigative journalism, Alan. Harrowing, revelatory, profound. And here’s useful, contextual clarification, relating to licit, as distinct from illicit, opioid production and distribution, globally. The American Empire and planetary pain-management? An unholy mess.Quoted by@tarenceray @thebafflermag And then, the Kentucky opioid story in a planetary context.Quoted by@SafeMedicinesQuoted by@thebafflermag The issue, fundamentally planetary.Quoted by@moshik_temkin We know Islamic surgeons were using anesthesia for brain and spine surgery 1M years ago. Botanically-based anesthesias represent a profoundly significant and promising area for global, transcultural research. The Islamic world has always been far ahead of the West. Meanwhile...Quoted by@drvandanashiva The implications are, of course, totalizing and planetary. What, specifically, for example, of the direct relationship between #BigPharma and seed; the supremacist criminalization of seed stewardship, and catastrophic suffering among the global poor; endless war and world peace?Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @bruces Now, about the pain response. ?s=20Quoted by@bruces Now, about the pain response. ?s=20Quoted by@nils_gilman @paulfarmer_ This. “...those whose lives are rarely touched by structural violence are uniquely prone to recommend resignation as a response to it.” Now, about the pain response. ?s=20 @unitethepoor #unitetheglobalpoorQuoted by2/ ‘Western medicine’ is rich White medicine, essentially, an obscenity against basic human decency. Against God, in other words.Quoted by@FreudianSlip3rs @catherinegalway Me and GSK, we go back a while. ?s=20Quoted byUS-backed counter-narcotics policy? Addicted to Empire. https://x.com/dickinsonbeth/status/1365262438040559618?s=21Quoted by@nils_gilman The issue, a tad more substantive.Quoted by5/ I was raised, the scion of a Western industrial pharmacist, in Asia. Much like Dad, I simply presumed multinational medicine an unquestionable kindness to the world. We were doing good as we saw it, blind neither to scientific sense, nor conscience.