They say that as if it’s not their own pharma companies profiting off of many of these drugs.

“I wonder what we could do about pharma companies making absurd profits off of getting people addicted to opioids. Maybe we should force them to stop, or even just provide a reward for anyone who develops a non-addictive alternative? No, if we did that, we’d stop getting “donations” from our capitalist friends, we can’t have that.”