Just part of the plan for a small population decrease. Nothing to see here.

How are you arguing that would they be doing this? Lobbying to keep marijuana illegal so people are forced to seek other types of painkillers?

Article doesn't seem to go into this.

So what exactly is the conspiracy in this article? The price did go up by a lot, but the article is displaying extreme economic ignorance by essentially citing the idiotic labor theory of value.

https://archive.is/8R8QM | :

Massive Price Hike for Lifesaving Opioid Overdose Antidote - Scientific American

'In communities particularly hard-hit by drug overdoses, places such as schools, libraries and coffee shops are keeping the antidote on hand. '

'Called Evzio, it is used to deliver naloxone, a life-saving antidote to overdoses of opioids. '

'First came Martin Shkreli, the brash young pharmaceutical entrepreneur who raised the price for an AIDS treatment by 5,000 percent. '

'And, he said, since the price increase, more patients have gotten Evzio prescriptions filled—so the cost doesn’t seem to be stopping them. '

'Their budgets are larger right now, so they’re less price sensitive, said Nicholson Price, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan Law School. '

This has been an automated message.