Not only infected blood in the UK, there is also the case of Fentanyl to treat toothache

The other great massacre that has occurred in the recent past concerns analgesic drugs containing opioids

ROME – What has emerged is shocking: more than 30,000 people in the United Kingdom infected by contaminated blood between the 70s and 90s, many were children. The most serious thing, ascertained by justice, is that the Government knew “it wasn’t an accident”.

THE PRECEDENT OF OPIIODS

The mind immediately goes back to the other great massacre that occurred in the recent pastdue to analgesic drugs containing opioidswhich, being highly addictive, led to death Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people overdosed, some studies speak of over a million, between the end of the 1990s and 2023. Until the end, the tragedy did not find attentive ears among politicians. Only in 2017 did the then administration of President Trump recognize the opioid issue as a problem of national importance with, in addition to the victims, damage to the national economy amounting to 500 billion dollars.

THE JOHNSON CASE & JOHNSON

According to the news, it was in 2018 that theJohnson & Johnson has begun to be targeted by a series of lawsuitsregarding her alleged role in worsening the opioid epidemic. The first major trial against J&J began in Oklahoma in May 2019 and ended with a ruling that has been defined as historic: the order to pay 572 million dollars for the human and social damage caused by the products of the pharmaceutical company. Until 2022 when an American federal judge ordered three other major US pharmacy chains to pay $650 million for their role in the opioid crisis to offset expenses incurred in two Ohio counties to combat the epidemic of opium drug addiction and resulting overdose deaths.

FENTANYL TO TREAT TOOTHOACHE

It gives you shudders to think that in the past, Fentanyl was taken to treat a toothache or backache, regularly prescribed by the doctor. From the next day, without knowing it, we entered the infernal circle of addiction. They call him “the zombie drug” because it can transform those who take it into “a walking dead”. There is not yet an emergency in Europe, even though there are more and more signs of the circulation of this substance. Signs that have recently pushed Italy to present a national prevention plan against the improper use of Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids.