[ghamrick]

I question the ethical culpability of big pharma. Taken from the article "Drug companies had bombarded West Virginia’s rural towns with record numbers of narcotics, according to court records: 300,000 tablets of hydrocodone to the mom-and-pop pharmacy in the town of War, population 808; half a million oxycodone pills to Kermit, population 400. During a five-year period ending in 2013, a single drug company had shipped more than 60 million doses of hydrocodone into a state with fewer than 1 million working-age adults."

I would prefer to use the term 'criminal liability' but I suspect there is none for this crime

edit - IANAL - to be defined as a crime it would have to violate a criminal law, and while this is ethically odious, it is most probably not criminal