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“Sold Heroin As Medicine” - Gerald Posner REVEALS How The Government FUELED Big Pharma's Drug Empire

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Bet-David sits down with investigative journalist Gerald Posner to expose Big Pharma’s dark history. From cocaine and heroin to Tylenol and the opioid crisis, this interview uncovers how greed shaped modern medicine and still drives the industry today.

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0:00.0

I want to start off with Farma.

0:01.3

So greed lies and the poisoning of America.

0:04.4

Just a couple weeks ago, the president announced, I think it was at the memorial of Charlie

0:08.7

Kirk where there he's talking about tomorrow.

0:10.0

We're making a big announcement, me and Bobby Kennedy.

0:12.7

And then they released the ties of Tylenol to autism and don't take it.

0:18.0

And a Tylenol tweet, re, read tweet comes up from 2017.

0:21.4

We don't recommend you take entitlement when you're pregnant, all this other stuff.

0:25.1

This book, as you go through the history of it, I'm going to start off with this page 7.

0:30.3

I'm going to read it to the audience and I want you to go from there.

0:33.7

Okay. So page 7, until 1900, there was no national medical license law.

0:38.5

In most states, anyone could call themselves a doctor and open a practice and treat patients.

0:44.4

The lack of basic medical knowledge meant that there were few boundaries for promoting a drug.

0:49.6

That was the case with the first inexpensive but powerful central nervous system stimulant called

0:55.5

cocaine.

0:57.1

It had been discovered by a German doctor, student whose chemistry dissertation was about

1:02.7

how he had isolated the pure alkaloid from coca leaves.

1:07.2

He named the alkaloid cocaine from the Latin ena, from it simply means from

1:12.1

coca.

1:12.6

Merck, one of the first firms to concentrate on cocaine, touted it in products for everything

1:17.9

from numbing aesthetics to cure for ingestion and hemorrhoids.

1:23.3

Even as an aid in eye surgery, it reduced bleeding by tightening blood vessels.

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