Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@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.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 3 Jan 2021

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: @WHO @WHO_Europe @pahowho @WHOEMRO @WHOWPRO @WHOAFRO @WHOSEARO The balance of pain? "This data echoes the 2018 Lancet Commission describing lack of access to pain relief medication as ‘one of the most heinous, hidden inequities in global health’ with the richest 10% of countries possessing 90% of distributed morphine-equivalent opioids."Quoted by@WHO @WHO_Europe @pahowho @WHOEMRO @WHOWPRO @WHOAFRO @WHOSEARO The balance of pain? "This data echoes the 2018 Lancet Commission describing lack of access to pain relief medication as ‘one of the most heinous, hidden inequities in global health’ with the richest 10% of countries possessing 90% of distributed morphine-equivalent opioids."Quoted by@RobertKennedyJr @TuckerCarlson Their tyranny, global. As are their enforcement mechanisms.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @TornadoNate And relevant expertise. I once tried reaching out to Islamic medicine-makers. Why? My spine badly broken, I sought world-leaders in botanical pain-management. Surely, an East-West conference representing one of humanity’s greatest as-yet-unsung symphonies of planetary healing.Quoted by@TornadoNate And relevant expertise. I once tried reaching out to Islamic medicine-makers. Why? My spine badly broken, I sought world-leaders in botanical pain-management. Surely, an East-West conference representing one of humanity’s greatest as-yet-unsung symphonies of planetary healing.Quoted byActually existing American exceptionalism.Quoted by@SophiaCycles Then, bringing it down to the level of the body... Which begs the question: if we've yet to leave the playpen of ontology in the matter of knowing our suffering and its place, what next? The transcendent function of national initiation into a mature, planetary humanity?Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @jbralston What did my extensive research reveal? Astonishingly, a total ‘de facto’ lack of connection between two vast planetary reservoirs of complementary experience and expertise, surely representing one humanity’s greatest as-yet-unsung symphonies of planetary peace and healing.Quoted by@jbralston What did my extensive research reveal? Astonishingly, a total ‘de facto’ lack of connection between two vast planetary reservoirs of complementary experience and expertise, surely representing one humanity’s greatest as-yet-unsung symphonies of planetary peace and healing.Quoted by8/ Herd impunity, militaries and medicine, and the endless war on planetary public health. We’re calling it @UniteThePoor #unitingtheglobalpoorQuoted by@nytimes @corneliagracchi Then, there’s planetary context. #unitingtheglobalpoorQuoted by@CalMorgan I’d be happy to do the cyberspatial laying on of hands thing for ya. Cryptocurrency miracle, it’s the new #BigPharma. Wears off in two months. Simply repeat. Yes, outsource your elemental being to our latest pay-as-you-go-service!Quoted by@HollyCairnsTD Then, putting GSK’s impact in planetary, bio-cultural context... (An aside: would you have a pointer to your Master’s thesis on OP corn adaptation?)