Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@aIIegoricaI Here's part of the cause. Predictable, almost, isn't it?

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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 by@TaraAnnThieke I believe it was Gandhi who noted that at the heart of all wisdom traditions is teaching about what it is to live without fear. Is it any wonder the US pharmaceutical empire's impact upon planetary pain management is, in practice, effectively diabolical?