Corporate Pushers

September, 1972

Corporate PushersIf tomorrow, by some miracle, every source of illegally grown or manufactured drug were cut off, the U. S. would scarcely feel any withdrawal symptoms, nor would the current drug-abuse epidemic be ended. The sad truth is that our most sophisticated and profitable pushers are the nation's largest pharmaceutical corporations. Somehow, these companies remain almost unnoticed in the intense and well-publicized debate about the causes of the drug epidemic. Each year, the legal drug i...