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Thursday 18th of April 2024

2016 Presidential election The one piece of information that best predicts whether Mr. Trump won or lost a county in November was the degree of the opiod epidemic. Timothy Snyder, Malady © 2021 Kwiple.com
American Dream Good drugs © 2018 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Amount the US pharmaceutical industry spent in 2016 on ads for prescription drugs: $6,400,000,000  Harper's Index, January 2018 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Factor by which the number of children born with drug dependencies has increased in the rural U.S. population since 2004: 6 Harper's Index, March 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers In the year leading up to Trump's election victory, the word “transgender” appeared  in the New York Times 1,169 times. The word “opioid” appeared just 284 times.  Edward Luce, Financial Times, January 13-14, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Number of countries in which direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical ads are legal: 2 Harper's Index, January 2018 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers People tapped, swiped and clicked a whopping 2,617 times each day, on average.  For the heaviest users – the top 10% – average interactions doubled to 5,427 touches a day. Per year, that's nearly 1 million touches on average – and 2 million for the less restrained among us. dscout, June 16, 2016 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Percentage by which a marijuana user is likelier than others to eat fast food five or more times in a given week: 75 Harper's Index, January 2018 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Percentage increase since 2015 in the amount West Virginia spends on substance abuse prevention and treatment: 3 On hiring contractors to transport corpses: 102  Harper's Index, December 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers The share of U.S. workers testing positive for illicit drug use reached its highest level in a decade … Overall, 4% of worker drug tests were positive in 2015. Among safety-sensitive workers, positive tests rose to 1.8% from 1.7%. In the general workforce, positive tests rose to 4.8% from 4.7%. … in 2014, the year of the most recent survey, about 10% of Americans over age 12 had used an illicit drug in the prior 30 days. Wall Street Journal, September 15, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers The UK Competition and Markets Authority said the company [Actavis], owned by Teva, the world largest generic drugmaker by volume, had hiked the price of the [hydrocortisone] tablets by more than 12,000 percent since 2008, from 70p to £88. Financial Times, December 19, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Value of the prizes revoked from the Irish owners of a greyhound racing champion that tested positive for cocaine: $35,000 Harper's Index, December 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Criminal justice How about we go back to [Paul] Manafort? Breaking into his house. What is he, a drug dealer? Rudy Giuliani, on the Mueller investigation and  courtesies owed to white collar criminals, Sean Hannity interview, May 2, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say If we can teach young people not to take drugs … it's really, really easy not to take them.  Donald Trump, on his prescription for eliminating the nation's opioid addiction epidemic — an anti-drug ad campaign targeted at kids © 2017 Kwiple.com
Death More than 1m people around the world die each year from infections linked to microbes resistant to antibiotics, according to a study that estimates the scale of a "silent pandemic" that is now more deadly than malaria or HIV. … Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been described by experts as one of the greatest  threats to public health in the 21st century. The figures underscore the dangers of bacteria developing resistance to existing antibiotics as a result of overuse — including during the Covid-19 pandemic — against a backdrop of scant new vaccines and drugs under development to prevent or treat infections. Financial Times, January 19, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Drugs  The authors of a May 2018 research paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland estimated that prescription opioids accounted for 44% of the decrease in men's lablor force participation observed since 2001. Bloomberg Businessweek, August 9, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Drugs Biogen, which is licensing Spinraza [a drug for spinal muscular atrophy] from Ionis Pharmaceuticals, said this week that one dose will have a list price of $125,000. That means the drug will cost $625,000 to $750,000 to cover the five or six doses needed in the first year, and about $375,000 annually after that to cover the necessary three doses a year. Patients will presumably take Spinraza for the rest of their lives. New York Times, December 31, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Drugs HASHEESH. Do not confuse with hash, which produces no voluptuous sensations whatever. Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Accepted Ideas Trans. by Jacques Barzun © 2016 Kwiple.com
Drugs I'll die young, but it's like kissing God. Lenny Bruce on his heroin addiction © 2021 Kwiple.com
Drugs I think the biggest killer out there is stigma. Stigma keeps people in the shadows.  Stigma keeps people from coming forward and asking for help. Jerome Adams © 2022 Kwiple.com
Drugs Kids, don't do heroin. It's a gateway to being Republican. Bill Maher © 2017 Kwiple.com
Drugs Little Kitty doesn't hide anymore. In fact, she's more like her old self: sunbathing on the living room carpet, playing with Ms. Mastramico's other cat, Valentina. “When I've given it to her, she's never acted high, falling face-first into her food bowl, chowing down,” Ms. Mastramico said. “She comes out and socializes, wants to be petted. It's a very noticeable difference.” A cat owner who treats her cats with medical marijuana, quoted in New York Times, October 9, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Drugs Marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others. Henry J. Anslinger, first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics later the Drug Enforcement Agency © 2019 Kwiple.com
Drugs Start 'em high, and hope they don't die Informal motto of Insys, a maker of fentanyl © 2018 Kwiple.com
Drugs Stop pretending your drugs are morally superior to my drugs because you get yours at a store. Bill Maher © 2015 Kwiple.com
Drugs This American carnage stops here and stops right now. Donald Trump, inaugural speech, January 20, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Drugs US pays highest prices for branded cancer medicines  Doctors fear ‘financial toxicity’ will hamper the battle against life-threatening disease headline, Financial Times, June 7, 2015 [printed edition] © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary pharmaceutical (fär'mə so̅o̅'ti kəl), adj. Synonym for price-gouging, as in, “Gilead Sciences, Horizon Pharma, Rodelis Therapeutics, Turing Laboratories and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International are pharmaceutical companies.” © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Fine opioid manufacturers $1 million for each death attributed to overdosing on their drug © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Legalize shopping at foreign pharmacies for branded and generic drugs © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Outlaw pay-for-delay agreements by which drug companies pay makers of generic drugs to delay inroducing cheaper versions of their drugs © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Outlaw renewing drug patents based on insignificant changes © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Outlaw the patenting of drugs from nature © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Prohibit drug companies from  paying doctors to prescribe their drugs © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Prohibit drug companies from paying doctors to prescribe the company's drugs © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Prohibit drug companies from paying outside doctors to speak about their products at medical conferences © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Require the federal government to set wholesale drug prices © 2015 Kwiple.com
Making money the new-fashioned way Acquiring old drugs, then raising their price 5,500 percent © 2016 Kwiple.com
Making money the new-fashioned way Drinking lots of water and using drug-test-evasion products © 2016 Kwiple.com
Making money the new-fashioned way Encouraging opioid addiction © 2017 Kwiple.com
Middle class  All middle class means now is that you're poor but you don't do meth. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, Jan. 18, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Money in politics Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the controversial Arizona Democrat who threatens to derail President Biden's legislative agenda, received more than $750,000 in donations from the pharma- ceutical and medical device industries. After that, she announced her opposition to a Democratic plan to lower prescription drug costs. … During her successful 2018 Senate campaign, Sinema repeatedly vowed to lower prescription drug prices and drug costs for seniors. Salon, September 23, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Pain Drugs like oxycodone, hydrocodone, they treat all kinds of pain. The pain of being a single mom looking after a kid. The pain of that person who who doesn't have a job. The pain of, I'm 20 years old, nobody cares. The pain of being bullied. The pain of I'm gay. It treats all of those pains. It's more about this social angst of there are no jobs. The economy's crushed. This is a state that's been marginalized in so many ways. Drugs are a solution to that. A Petersburg, West Virginia, doctor jailed for illegally prescribing pain killers, quoted in The Guardian, June 19, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Pandemics David Baker, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, noted that, although cancer drugs are also expensive to develop and bring to market, “there will always be people dying of cancer.” But pandemics arrive infrequently and don't necessarily stay for long — characterteristics that make them a commercial liability. “It's one of those cases where a traditional market economy doesn't work so well,” [Amesh] Adalja, [a physician at] Johns Hopkins, said. “Suppose yoy made a sars antiviral in 2003,” after its 2002-03 run. “You would not have had a return on investment, because sars was gone.” Michael Hutson, The New Yorker, Apr. 13, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Psychopaths say Beneficiaries of life-saving drugs should pay what the drugs are worth to them © 2015 Kwiple.com
Psychopaths say I probably would have raised the price higher is probably what I would have done. Martin Shkreli, when asked if, given hindsight, he would have done anything differently in raising the price of the drug Diaprim 5,500% from $13.50 to $750.00 per pill  © 2015 Kwiple.com
Psychopaths say There's no doubt I'm a capitalist. I'm trying to create a big drug company, a successful drug company, a profitable drug company. Martin Shkreli, ex-hedge fund manager, who former employees sued for unpaid wages, who urged the FDA to not approve drugs from companies he was selling short, who was accused of harassing an ex- employee and his family and of using company funds to pay personal debts, defending Turing Pharmaceuticals, his new company, which acquired rights to Daraprim, a 62-year old drug used to treat pregnant women, infants, AIDS and cancer patients, and then raised its price 5,500 percent, from $13.50 to $750.00 per pill © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie  When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two – and I didn't like it – and didn't inhale and never tried inhaling again. Bill Clinton © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie If I was an alcoholic, I’d be fricking dead by now. Rudy Giuliani, September 11, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Selfie Selling pot allowed me to get through college and make enough money to start off in comedy. Bill Maher © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie Dick in hand, I do consider it among my body parts vulnerable to the knives of irrational narco types, and take a fond last look, before tucking it back into my pants. Sean Penn, thoughts while stopping to piss into woods on his way to interview Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán in his jungle hidelut © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie When I was promoting Green Hornet, Sony asked me not to tell so many weed stories. And I said, I don't think I'm capable of doing that. It's kind of the only thing I can talk about. Seth Rogen © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Valium for breakfast, marijuna for lunch, and quaaludes for dinner. Jordan Belfort, the real Wolf of Wall Street, portrayed by an unnamed associate quoted by The Guardian, September 30, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot What Trump is is just another opioid. Donald Trump portrayed by J.D. Vance © 2016 Kwiple.com
State of the union We sell Mexicans guns, they sell us drugs © 2016 Kwiple.com
< Trumpists say We are going to be the first president that’s going to be willing to lean against the Mexican drug cartels. … If they’re trying to bring fentanyl into our communities that’s going to be the last thing they do because at the border they’re going to be shot stone cold dead. Ron DeSantis, July 30, 2023, to cheering attendees at a barbecue in Rye, New Hampshire © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say You put very sexy things like abortion and marijuana on the ballot,  and a lot of young people come out and vote. It was a secret sauce for disaster in Ohio. I don't know what they were thinking. Thank goodness that most of the states in this country don't allow you to put everything on the ballot. because democracies are not the way to run a country. Rick santorum, after Republicans in Ohio and elsewhere who attemped to ban abortion and prevent decriminalizing marijuana were defeated in the 2023 off-year elections © 2023 Kwiple.com
 
Work I smoke a lot of weed when I write, generally speaking. I don't know if it helps me write. It makes me not mind that I'm writing.  And I don't know if it makes me work better,  but it makes me not care that I'm working. Who wants to work? But if you're stoned, it doesn't seem like work. Seth Rogen © 2023 Kwiple.com