Big pharma executives 'cruelly mocked opioid addicts who got hooked on to painkillers as PILLBILLIES', emails show- Top executives at AmerisourceBergen, one of the nation's largest drug distributors sent emails disparaging those who became hooked on their drugs
In one, Chris Zimmerman, a senior executive responsible for halting opioid distribution seemingly called drug dealers 'pillbillies'
Others included rhymes and songs about the drug addicts
AmerisourceBergen is now being sued by West Virginia county and city officials for spreading the opioid epidemic in the state
MELISSA KOENIG | 02:32 EDT, 17 May 2021 | UPDATED: 04:54 EDT, 17 May 2021op officials at a leading drug distribution company sent emails disparaging those who have gotten hooked off of their products, according to a West Virginia prosecutor.
The emails were put forth by Cabell County attorney Paul Farrell Jr. in a federal trial that pits county and Huntington City officials against the nation's three largest drug distributors — who they argue fueled the opioid epidemic in the state.
In the emails, executives for AmerisourceBergen wrote rhymes and songs making fun of those who became addicted to opioid painkillers.
One email in 2011 from a Joseph Tomkiewicz, who was working as a corporate investigator for the company at the time, included a rhyme to the tune of The Beverly Hillbillies theme song in which a 'poor mountaineer' named Jed 'barely kept his habit fed' and traveled to Florida to buy 'Hillbilly Heroin' — a nickname for OxyContin. . . .
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This type of callousness is a dream come true for any tort attorney. If I'm on that jury, punitive damages would pile up to the moon.
