dailycaller
Ethan Barton
Investigative Reporter
7:15 PM 10/19/2017
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http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/19/pharma-association-defends-law-weakening-dea-ignores-key-facts/A major trade association for pharmaceutical distributors defended a law that weakened the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), while ignoring key facts about how the now-stripped power once let the agency suspend distributors that shipped alarming numbers of opioid pills.
The pharmaceutical industry – including the Healthcare Distribution Alliance – spent millions lobbying for the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act, which made it nearly impossible for the DEA to suspend drug distributors if their opioid-based painkiller shipments reached suspicious volumes, The Washington Post and 60 Minutes jointly reported.
“The Washington Post and 60 Minutes have done a major disservice to the battle against opioid abuse with their biased and one-sided reporting,” the Healthcare Distribution Alliance, a trade association for pharmaceutical distributors, said in a Wednesday statement titled “A Crisis of Misinformation.”
President Trump Declares Opioid Crisis A National Emergencyhttp://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,286749.0.html
