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'Dark and Disturbing' DOJ Report Shows Big Pharma Knew of Opioid Abuse After Releasing Popular Painkiller

Rebuking Industry-Friendly Trump Plan, Doctors Offer Blueprint to Confront 'Greed of Big Pharma'

Jake Johnson, staff writer

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"The outrageous cost of prescription drugs in this country is a crisis that the American people feel every day. There are real solutions we can implement that we know will lower drug prices and save lives."

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After Trump Does 'Nothing About Their Greed,' Big Pharma Stocks Soar

Jake Johnson, staff writer

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Trump's "Pharma-Friendly" Drug Plan Denounced as Doing Little or Nothing to Lower Prices

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"How the heck is this going to lower drug prices in this country?"

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"At a time when local, state and federal governments are spending many billions of dollars a year dealing with the impact of the opioid epidemic, we must hold the pharmaceutical companies and executives that created the crisis accountable," said Sanders in a statement.

Taking Aim at Corporate Impunity, Sanders' Bill Would Send Big Pharma Execs Behind Opioid Crisis to Jail

Report Details How Skyrocketing Prescription Drug Costs Are Harming Nation's Seniors

At Museum 'Die-In,' Protesters Demand Opioid-Peddling Sackler Family Help to Combat Crisis It Fueled

6 Democrats Help GOP Confirm 'Greedy Big Pharma CEO' for HHS Secretary

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'This Is Simply Price Gouging': Cost of Cancer Drug Hiked 1,400% Since 2013

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FDA Raids in Florida Suggest Trump Admin. Policy Change That Benefits Big Pharma

'Why Not Freddy Krueger?' Trump Picks Big Pharma Exec Alex Azar to Head HHS

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To Fight Global Threat of Antibiotic Resistance, WHO Issues First-Ever Guidelines to Curb Use

Forcing Trump's Hand, Sanders and Dems Intro Bill to Lower 'Outrageous' Drug Prices

Alex Azar Trump Health and Human Services

Warnings of 'Big Pharma Coup' as Trump Considers Drug Exec. for Health Secretary

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The Sinister Side Effect of Amazing New Cancer Drug: One Dose Costs Nearly $500K

Bernie Sanders takes on Big Pharma greed with a new rule aimed at preventing price gouging.

Sanders Takes on Pharma Greed With Rule to End 'Price Gouging'

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Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

Corporate Financed Clinical Trials Stifle Important Data

Physicians for a National Health Program

Doctors in U.S. and Canada Launch Sweeping Pharmaceutical Reform Proposal

Social Security Works

Big Pharma Owns the Trump Administration

Americans for Tax Fairness

Will Trump's Speech On Pharma Lead To More Than Tough Talk?...

Americans for Tax Fairness

Big Pharma's Tax Cuts Going To Wealthy – Zero To Patients, Little To Workers...

Senator Bernie Sanders

Sanders Introduces Legislation to Hold Opioid Makers Accountable

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Views

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Vaccines and the Liberal Mind

Robert Reich

Trump's Drug Pricing Scam

Paul Buchheit

Meeting the Definition of Terrorism: Big Pharma, Big Oil, and Big Banks

Domenica Ghanem

If You Want to Kill Drug Dealers, Start with Big Pharma

Nancy Altman

Lesson From Special Election: Run on Social Security, Medicare and Lower Drug Prices

Bobbi Dempsey

Martin Shkreli Is Going to Jail Because He Forgot There Are Consequences For Hurting the Rich

Robert Reich

America’s Martin Shkreli Problem Is Not Just Martin Shkreli

Sam Pizzigati

The Big Pharma Family that Brought Us the Opioid Crisis

Leah Cowen

Infectious Diseases Are Poised for a Deadly Comeback

Richard Eskow

Trump’s HHS Pick Alex Azar Is the Worst Pharma Bro of All

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