Tucker takes a look at the opioid crisis and questions why the suicide rate has increased along with a massive increase in antidepressant use. Highlights include:
“If you had to isolate one single tragedy that’s produced the highest casualty rate in the United States, it would probably have to be the opioid crisis.”
“Over the past 25 years, opioids have destroyed entire regions of the country, mostly rural areas, places populated by the people who built and fed this country for generations. Hundreds of thousands of them have died from opioids, and they’re still dying. More than 100,000 drug ODs just last year, mostly from Fentanyl.”
“Fentanyl is imported from China, it’s smuggled through Mexico.”
“This particular disaster was created by drug companies. That’s true, Purdue Pharma kicked it off. They did so by aggressively marketing a narcotic called oxycontin. They sold it to doctors and doctors sold it to their patients on the false claim it was non-addictive. It was very addictive.”
“What happened next? Well, drive through upstate New York sometime, you can see the human carnage. Ultimately, Purdue Pharma faced a barrage of lawsuits and then criminal charges. In the end, however, not a single executive from that or any other drug company ever went to jail. So, no one was ever really punished for all those deaths, hundreds of thousands of deaths.”
“Well, for a brief moment, it seemed possible that somebody would be punished.”
“Never in our history have federal officials touted a publicly held company more aggressively than the Biden administration touted Pfizer, and as a result Pfizer’s stock price exploded, its executives made billions. Gone was any suggestion that the drug companies might be capable of doing anything wrong, ever. Instead, the media and the Biden administration lauded pharma executives as moral heroes.”
“And some of their products are life saving, that is true. But the bigger truth we are now learning is more complicated than that. In just the past few weeks, serious, very serious questions have emerged about some of the most widely prescribed drugs in America, very much including the covid vaccines.”
“Antidepressants are supposed to cure depression. That’s why they’re prescribed. And yet, over the same period that SSRI prescriptions have risen 3,000 percent, the suicide rate, maybe the most reliable indicator of all of depression, has not fallen in the United States. In fact, the suicide rate has jumped by 35 percent. That’s a huge increase, that’s a lot of dead people. Now, drug makers admit that their products may be part of the reason for the increase in suicide. The makers of Prozac, for example, concede that young people who take that drug have an increased risk of suicide compared to those who took a placebo. Think about that for a second.”
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