J.D. Vance's anti-drug charity enlisted doctor echoing Big Pharma
Source: Associated Press
Vances anti-drug charity enlisted doctor echoing Big Pharma
By JULIE CARR SMYTH
August 18, 2022
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) When JD Vance founded Our Ohio Renewal a day after the 2016 presidential election, he promoted the charity as a vehicle for helping solve the scourge of opioid addiction that he had lamented in Hillbilly Elegy, his bestselling memoir.
But Vance shuttered the nonprofit last year and its foundation in May, shortly after clinching the states Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, according to state records reviewed by The Associated Press. An AP review found that the charitys most notable accomplishment sending an addiction specialist to Ohios Appalachian region for a yearlong residency was tainted by ties among the doctor, the institute that employed her and Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin.
The mothballing of Our Ohio Renewal and its dearth of tangible success raise questions about Vances management of the organization. His decision to bring on Dr. Sally Satel is drawing particular scrutiny. Shes an American Enterprise Institute resident scholar whose writings questioning the role of prescription painkillers in the national opioid crisis were published in The New York Times and elsewhere before she began the residency in the fall of 2018.
Documents and emails obtained by ProPublica for a 2019 investigation found that Satel, a senior fellow at AEI, sometimes cited Purdue-funded studies and doctors in her articles on addiction for major news outlets and occasionally shared drafts of the pieces with Purdue officials in advance, including on occasions in 2004 and 2016. Over the years, according to the report, AEI received regular $50,000 donations and other financial support from Purdue totaling $800,000.
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(36,906 posts)Vance verifies that republicans are the users of fentanyl.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216683046
https://www.newsweek.com/maga-voter-deaths-fentanyl-via-border-does-look-intentional-jd-vance-1702428
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/11/jd-vances-claim-that-biden-is-targeting-maga-voters-with-fentanyl/
J.D. Vances claim that Biden is targeting MAGA voters with fentanyl
If you wanted to kill a bunch of MAGA voters in the middle of the heartland, how better than to target them and their kids with this deadly fentanyl?
It does look intentional. Its like Joe Biden wants to punish the people who didnt vote for him and opening up the floodgates to the border is one way to do it.