Couldn't agree more - there is so much material on evils of "corporate personhood" and how it is destroying America. When you say "money is speech" and "corporations are people" you have basically made us real people, We The People, second class citizens - basically proletariate workers there just to live, work, and consume with no real say in how the world works. It is no surprise that the elite 1% have all their wealth tied up in - guess what - corporations. They have immunity and zombie like longevity. We don't imprison or even execute corporations who kill people, they just get a fine which is paid for by consumers and they move on. And because they control the government and hence the courts they are basically immune from responsibility.

In a just world the assets of those big pharma companies that engaged in genocide would be seized for the good of We The People, their principals imprisioned for life, and regulations would be put in place to prevent it from ever happening again.

One reason I like this particular documentary is how it addresses patent padding, dispels with the industry’s claim that the costs are high because of R&D. Doesn’t actually talk about the opiate epidemic at all but gives greater insight on how we got where we are.

I have a tougher question: why aren't state legislatures and/or the federal government re-classifying these drugs so they can only be administered by certain medical personnel, indeed if not in medicial facilities? From everything I've heard/read in the news, It seems to me that the abuse is happening because patients are administering it to themselves.

When I hear something like what is going on right now with the 'opioid epidemic' they try to make it sound like these drugs just appeared out of nowhere and all these degenerates started abusing them.
It infuriates me when I think about how utterly corrupt our government is.

Corporations are NOT people. That is a lie manufactured and constantly repeated by Mitch McConnell. He discovered the Nazi tactic of the "big Lie": Manufacture any lie you want and keep repeating it in many contexts. Eventually more and more people with believe you and lthe lie will be accepted as fact. Big pharma is being a free pass to take advantage of us by the culture of greed.

Part of the problem is Citizens United where the Supreme Court allowed unlimited donations to political campaigns. Now the corporations openly buy the politicians.

Illuminati confirmed.???

First of all corporations are persons under the law not people. This is a means by which the share holders and board of directors escape liability. Since the corporation is a person you can not put it in jail the best you can do is fine it or sue it nor can you hold the owners or their representatives responsible for the crimes of the corporation. You can however hold individuals working on behalf or the corporations responsible for their criminal actions as separate person under the law this is why when there is a criminal case against a corporation we often get the head of some low level manager offered up for implementing policies and instructions from the board; the excuse is that the board was not aware of the potential consequences but the manager was.

I think this is totally wrong; corporation should not be PUL's only people should be.