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This is an industry that's out of control.

If they don't follow the law, in drug supply, people die.

That's just it.

People die.

Joe Raneseese ran the Office of Diversion Control at the DEA.

And tonight, in a joint 60 minutes Washington Post investigation, this high-ranking

whistleblower says the opioid epidemic spread because Congress was influenced by the drug

industry and Washington lobbyists.

You know the implication of what you're saying.

That these big companies knew that they were pumping drugs into American communities, that

were killing people.

That's not an implication.

That's a fact.

You're a professor at one of the finest law schools in the country.

Is that something that you thought you would be able to do?

No.

It makes me laugh hearing you say it out loud because there are days where it doesn't

make sense to me and I've lived it.

Question one is...

Here's why.

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