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Lynton Grayson's avatar

That drug company I think I watch a documentary on it man it was fuken evil they paid the doctors to sell the drugs and get them hooked on them

Anthony's avatar

What you watched is confirmed in the court record. McKinsey called them “High Value Prescribers” — the doctors writing the most prescriptions. The DOJ confirmed all of it. Thank you for reading.

Elaine Newton's avatar

I was recently hospitalised with a broken FEMA , advised them many times No Oxy, they ignored me so many time until I really went off my head, told them all to fuck off, until someone would listen, eventually after 5 days they listened. Why don’t they believe us, when we are telling our truth.

Anthony's avatar

Because the system was designed to override exactly that request. McKinsey’s strategy targeted the prescribers, not the patients. You had to fight because the pipeline was built to flow in one direction. I’m glad you fought. Thank you for sharing this.

Elaine Newton's avatar

I am still in hospital, I watch everyday all day, nurses handing out oxycodone, like candy, these people are not aware that they are taking a mind altering drug. It's very scary to see. Plus the patients are not being listened too. I am not happy watching the destruction of people's minds. I will keep make notes of what I am seeing. Thanks for Reading. Blessings Always.

Anthony's avatar

What you’re describing is the pipeline still running. The fact that you’re watching it happen right now — after criminal convictions, after $1.6 billion in settlements, after 500,000 deaths — is the entire point of the piece. Keep making those notes. Your eyes in that room matter. Wishing you a full recovery.

Elaine Newton's avatar

ThankYou Anthony, I appreciate the info. Yes I will keep documenting what I see. By observing I am amazed that nobody is really listening to each other.

May Ruth Lambert, APRN's avatar

Yes, during my recent hospitalization for thoracic surgery, I told them NO OPIOIDS & No muscle relaxants. They put it in my record to go home on them anyway. They even charged me & sent me home with the opioid I had refused! I did not take them home! (I am a nurse practitioner).

Anthony's avatar

A nurse practitioner who explicitly refused — and they still put it in the discharge and sent you home with it. That’s a free sample forced on a patient who said no. In any other industry that’s predatory. In this one, the doctor is the delivery mechanism and McKinsey designed the pipeline. Thank you for sharing this.

ParaGov's avatar

The only difference between a drug dealer on the street and a drug dealer in a medical clinic, is one is required to have government-sanctioned credentials to be legitimate.

Alan's avatar

So sorry for recipients. I had the same experience: I am an experienced anaesthetist. Now on an educational receiving end. They tried not to listen. I gave a quick tut on the pharmacokinetics & -dynamics of all the analgesics offered for my severe pain. They now listen. BTW, paracetamol (acetaminophen) is verboten on p(ai)(un)n of being "un-hired".

DG's avatar

Nice work

Lou B's avatar

DAMN... thank you very very much. Now that I know, def be sharing this

May Ruth Lambert, APRN's avatar

So, this is the real war on drugs that the pharmaceutical companies are responding to. It is not drugs from Mexico or Venezuela. But, Trump likes blowing up boats, immigration bans, & starting new wars to benefit from insider trading.

Anthony's avatar

Purdue built the demand. McKinsey turbocharged it. When prescriptions were finally restricted, people already addicted had nowhere to go but the street supply. The cartels didn’t need to buy surplus — they inherited the customer base Purdue created. The pipeline was built before they arrived.

ParaGov's avatar

Hi Anthony.

Just wanted to let you know that you inspired my article "The Faceless Pathocrat" https://substack.com/home/post/p-192632084

I really enjoyed your image of three men with skull-like eye sockets and $ signs. I confess to using a variation for my first image because I found yours so vivid.

ParaGov's avatar

The idea that a war, any war, is “a good long-term investment opportunity” highlights how utterly contemptible these people are. They have more money than can ever be spent, so money is not their motivator. They operate in a zero-sum world and money represents a source of power. That is all it is about: money to give them power to do evil and destroy lives.

This is why I call them "Pathocrats" running "Pathocracies."

And what is a pathocracy?

A system ruled by psychopaths.

It is the only explanation for the world we live in.

Anthony's avatar

I used to use the same framing. It didn’t hold up under the evidence. A psychopath couldn’t have designed that counter-messaging strategy — you have to understand grief to build a plan to neutralize it.

What the McKinsey room required was full cognitive access to the emotional landscape with zero somatic constraint. That’s closer to the Machiavellian/sadist profile. They can map exactly what a mother feels and use it as an input, even can get off on the cruelty. Their attempts to destroy the files itself is evidence of guilt and an ability to know right from wrong.

That’s precision, intentional cruelty. Your read on the power structure is right — I just think the diagnosis needs to be sharper so the right people get identified.

ParaGov's avatar

Anthony, you're quite right, but its more nuanced and specific than people with Machiavellian and Sadist profiles.

I subscribe to Polish psychologist and psychiatrist Andrzej Łobaczewski's theoretical system, ponerology (from the Greek poneros, meaning “evil”). Łobaczewski conceived the concept of a pathocracy: governments led and structured by individuals with personality disorders.

In this respect, Psychopaths, Machiavellians, and Sadists meet this definition. And definitely, Machiavellians would be considered the organizers and strategists of a pathocracy. He referred to this alliance as “the pathological collusion.”

The Psychopath destroys, but the Machiavellian makes destruction seem logical. Machiavellians survive regime changes, seamlessly adapting to new power structures since their loyalty is to manipulation itself, not any creed.

In pathocracies, Sadists rise rapidly within institutions of enforcement — police, intelligence services, and the military. They flourish because cruelty becomes a credential, proof of loyalty to the regime’s “hard realism.”

Łobaczewski described an alliance between the calculating Machiavellian and the impulsive sadist within every pathocratic hierarchy: The Machiavellian bureaucrat designs the rationalized policies; The sadistic enforcer implements them with zeal, taking joy in the suffering he inflicts; The psychopath (often occupying leadership) presides over both, enjoying their function but feeling nothing.

This feeling nothing is what I focus on in the personality of a "Pathocrat."

Anthony's avatar

Appreciate the Łobaczewski breakdown — the tripartite structure is useful and the “pathological collusion” framing is sharp.

I’d add two more to the vocabulary: thanatocrats and necrocrats.

Rulers whose governance is organized around death — either as a product or a resource. McKinsey’s slide deck qualifies on both counts. Good exchange.

ParaGov's avatar

This is why I enjoy freedom of speech:

One learns.

"Thanatocrats" and "Necrocrats" are two definitions I have never encountered. So I looked them up and learned something.

So thank you for your edification.

Very interesting!

Patrick Ciriello's avatar

Why can't I restack this?

Anthony's avatar

I’m not sure? It should be able to be restacked

Patrick Ciriello's avatar

It seems to be working now … restacked!