From the K-P-F-K studios in Southern California,

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up.

You've been sitting great to long.

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host

David Feldman. Hello David, how are you? Very good, good morning. And we also have the man of the hour, Ralph,

hello, Ralph. Hello, we're going to impose on your attention span on this one, but it's extremely

relevant to your community, maybe to your tragic experience.

That's right.

On the show today we have a health agenda and a black agenda and I'll explain what that

means.

First, we're going to talk about the opioid crisis

with Dr. Sidney Wolf, founder of,

and now Senior Advisor 2, Public Citizens Health Research Group,

and the figures are tens of thousands of people we know die from prescription overdose deaths of opioids and Dr. Wolf along with others is calling for the Food and Drug Administration to impose a moratorium and all new opioid formulations.

And this all comes against the backdrop of lawsuits filed against the Sackler family who for two generations have controlled

Purdue Pharma they've been the chief purveyors of the highly addictive opioid

OxyContin just to ask Rush Limbaugh how addictive that is and And the sacklers have been accused of taking advantage

to opioid crisis by not only marketing the painkillers,

but also selling the treatments for it.

They even gave it a cute name too, Project Tango. Dr. Wolf and his coalition argue that the

FDA has all along been too quick to approve these dangerous drugs that are

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