Author: Daniel Kreps / Source: Rolling Stone
Stephen Colbert tackled the opioid crisis and took aim at Big Pharma in a sobering Late Show segment Friday.
“There are certain subjects that are genuinely hard to talk about like, the opioid crisis. It’s an epidemic that affects both political parties, Republican, Democrat, rich people, poor people, it does not discriminate,” Colbert said.
“And a lot of people blame Big Pharma, but only because it’s their fault.”
Colbert then called out Purdue, the pharmaceutical company run by the Sackler family that introduced OxyContin. The host noted that there have been many lawsuits against Purdue for obscuring OxyContin’s addictive nature, even as their sales reps used the…
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