The Shameful Case of The Sacklers: Arthur's Story 

Keep going, rooting for you ❤️❤️❤️

Good for you. Hope you maintain your sobriety. It's difficult, I had a couple years of addiction and only kicked due to supply issues, which was the best thing to happen. 🥰

Congrats on the 1 year!!!!!!

so happy for your sobriety. I'm 7 months sober from alcohol which I used to consume every day from as soon as I got from work until going to sleep, and 2 days sober from weed which I used pretty much every day for the last 11 years, since I was in my early teens. Lots of people I grew up with have opiate addictions, some have died way too young and left their parents heartbroken. I'm so happy that you're sober and instead of putting your loved ones, and yourself, through all that suffering, you can be of help to others. Bless you and enjoy the fruits of your struggle

Stay strong a friend of mine was an amphetamine user for 25 years it cost him his marriage and job and nearly killed him before he quit. Now he is free and building his life back. He says the hardest part of stopping drugs was the boredom of the non drug world but as I said to him at least you know it’s real and anything you achieve is your achievement and not yours and a drugs. Never stop believing you can achieve more than others tell you. You are a winner. YOU have beaten a strong addiction that many never beat that shows how strong and good you really are 👍

Yep I guess his brother mortimer should have thought of that 😉

Maybe he wanted to Americanized his name a bit more

That is the likely cause, plenty of persons from that different ethnic backgrounds (you know qui) did that when they emigrated to America in the 20th century.

The good old semitic crypsis

It's what the Drumpfs did.

Philanthropy isn't charity; it's advertising.

@@EmeraldLavigne That and saving money with tax losses.Your tax 'losses' are just free advetising.

Million dollar donkey in a banana republic equals lower taxes.

@@EmeraldLavigne Charities are also glorified Virtue-Signallers only concerned with paying their bosses than actually helping people. That's why they spend so much money on advertising and deals with losers such as Marcus Rashford, who basically paid his way for a useless honourary degree for his (ahem) "Work".

@@DR3ADER1 firstly by the defintion of the word charities can't be virtue signalling (ironically your comment is virtue signalling though) secondly depends on the charity I.e. RNLI and Hospice charities both of these work on razer thin margins to achieve exact goals. Calling Marcus Rushford a loser when he's done more in his life already than you will in your entire life is a bit silly of you. Especially as one of the main things he did charity wise was feed children. Also you don't pay for honorary degrees, where on earth did you get that idea. P.s. I'm doubt you understand how anything in this world works at this point, was the point of your comment to say as many incorrect things as you could possibly think of?

This should have many more "likes". Top comment.

An incredibly insightful comment.

So basically capitalism is problem. Yeah fair enough it does prioritize corporate profits over human life.

@@murphy7801 I don't think it's as easy as writing off capitalism. Capitalism in itself is amoral. The problem is the choices made by those with power in a capitalist society.

And both have had the unfortunate effect of leaving people with crippling chronic pain completely untreated. My aunt had a steel rod put in her spine among many other surgeries after a severe car accident and the surgeries did not work. Mistakes were made by surgeons and it left her in worse pain. She needed opioids to have any quality of life. She never abused them. Didnt even LIKE the way she felt on them but she could walk. Then all this BS started and they cut her off abruptly. She was bedridden. Lost everything because she could no longer work. Ended up turning to illegal stuff for relief and within a year she committed suicide because she didnt want to live with the pain or be made into a criminal. As did my mothers closest friend. She didn't turn to illegal drugs and instead just blew her brains out just to stop the pain. She left a note explaining all of this. These I think are the truly innocent victims that are still ignored and treated like trash. Suicides among pain patients have skyrocketed. When people are talking about the victims of the opioid epidemic, they always leave these people out. The ones who actually need these sorts of pain medications who are just left to suffer and die because rich white kids started ODing. It had been rampant in poor communities for more than a decade and nobody cared then. It makes me sick.

No it isn’t, it’s one sided. . “NO ONE MAKES ANYONE TAKE SOMETHING THEY DON’T HAVE A NEED FOR! TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR YOURSELVES! EVEN BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICINE & ALLERGY MEDICINE ( to name a few) ARE DANGEROUS & ADDICTIVE . . . . DID YOU JUST SAY THEIR OK?

I’m glad you were able to ween off the pills. That’s great man, I wish you the best. That said I’m skeptical of it causing your hair loss 😂.

@@godseeseverything_1 thank you!!! I was hooked on opioids!!! I choose them because I enjoyed how they made me feel. Never did it occur to me to blame the drug dealers for my situation??? The fact so many older people that should know better support this crap!!! I value freedom and personal responsibility!!! Other people value political correctness and safety… Been down that road and it nearly killed me. No oxy advertisement got anyone addicted. Abd any doctor that believes in “non addictive opioids” should be reviewed. Anyone who thinks a time release coating makes oxycodone non addictive should permanently lose the right to practice medicine!!! Oxycodones been addictive since the 1910s-20s. At some point someone has to take responsibility… So I’m gonna at least take my part…. I Daniel Curtis former opioid addict take responsibility for all my drug use. It was my choice I made of my own volition. I continued talking the drug of my own volition. I broke the law of my own volition. The Sacklers had nothing to do with my addiction!!! If I do die by anyway involving a drug or accident, please don’t blame anyone else or go on a crusade with my pictures cuz I don’t support you guys!!! I try to table responsibility, I’m not always good at it. But with experience and training maybe in time?

Alcohol, my other substances were easy, but the benzo withdrawl was the nastiest thing that I have had come off.

Godseeseverything!! You clearly have never suffered with addiction which is why you’re so judgmental but it’s a illness and nobody not even you are above it…Let’s hope you never have an accident where you need strong painkillers cos you could be next.

Great bedtime videos.

It's make you feel like you're sitting down having a nice glass of whiskey with him, just listening to him gripe about some of the things wrong with the world.

Agreed. More darkmode videos please.

yeah fam I think they're pretty lit too

Are you on drugs?

Don't be a conspiracy theorist. It's perfectly normal & common for people whose reporting on the powerful in our society reaches a sizeable enough audience to take themselves out with 3 shots to the back of their own head while handcuffed.

@@EmeraldLavigne You're right. I forgot.

@@EmeraldLavigne humans are natural contortionists, the fbi has made this very clear.

@@PoptartParasol as have the Ferguson PD

What did he mean by this?

Not funny

I’m looking forward to the next instalment

I mean, that was also pretty literally one of the slogans for it at one point or another.

It was amphetamines. Not Valium.

Pretty sure it was about amphetamine, but then again suburban moms were probably loaded on uppers and valium at all at same time

Read Weird Scenes From The Canyon.

@@lesserspottedmugwump.363 Wrong, the song's about either Miltown or Valium. In the song the tablets are described as Yellow, both Miltown and 5mg Valium were traditionally yellow in colour. I've heard people assuming it's about the upper Drinamyl, but I seriously doubt it, as the following verse alludes that it's used to help with sleepless nights, plus Drinamyl were purple: You could tranquilize your mind So go running for the shelter of a mother's little helper And four help you through the night. Four 5mg pills is a pretty common dose for insomnia.

yea i find it interesting too! like in a way we should be thankful bc he might be the reason we moved away from those horrible treatments but then angry for what he replaced it with

@@julessb I wouldn’t go so far as to say those treatments were gone because of him; but yeah, given 1930s was the time of lobotomy, forced sterilization, euthanasia and electroshock

He was a natural born drug pusher, a dealer, a spoiler of human life...enjoy those profits fam, hope the glitz and comfort are worth spending eternity in hell.

But didn't he say it wasn't his children but his brothers and their children...? Sackler for sure had shady business practices but it sounds like he fancied himself a upstanding member of society too(in his own mind). It sounded to me that he wanted to maintain the pact they made and donate his deceased friends holdings but his brothers didn't want that. Then when he died suddenly they took everything and his children and niece and nephews got nothing. I think it's his brothers kids that pushed the oxycontin.

He's like a kindler, gentler Robert Evans.

What is the safer alternative to dealing with the pain.

@@duhduh666 once my pain went away quite a bit, Ketalorac helped me at that point. But that first week is always rough.

There's a tincture called stone breaker, it could naturally help break your stones up so they are smaller to pass and less pain. The herb is called Chanca piedra.

@ophelia what is it about your mental state that helped you make the better decision about the opioids?

@@NEMO-NEMO I think it’s just the idea of how I’d hate to be addicted to anything! Caffeine and sugar are my only vices… and even then, I try to watch myself. :}

Yeah, like they invented something good to mitigate something horrible, but then kept going until their invention became the new horrible thing.

@@TheEndKing And that is the history of medicine for the biggest part, yesterday brutal and nonsensical treatments of the past were regarded as cutting edge technology. And cutting edge technology of today will become brutal and completely irrational. Medicine is good and has improved at the trauma level (fix a bone, amend a wound) if you need chemicals to keep you in good health, good luck because you will need it. Look after yourself because it is your body that heals itself.

@@sillonbono3196 *mend

Omg Max Landis! Much love bro 💯🙌 and yes this whole origin story is very interesting.

Eeeee by gum. 8)

I would love to see an in deepth Analysis of Terminator 1 & 2. I watched the existing Video 20 Times. But! 1 & 2 become better every year passing. Can't get enough of them :O

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Hey Rich! Thanks for introducing me to Georg, this is really great stuff. Have you considered inviting him on your show? That'd be a great crossover.

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Were the parents screwed up?

@@SlapstickGenius23 probably not drugged up enough..?

I mean, it's not "dealt with." It's just the day-to-day.

It's not....short video

It'll be a one-sentence video with Georg just going "swept under the rug".

It usually was dealt with using revolution and journalism.

It isn’t. fin.

Or rather, so much less willing to pull ourselves up despite having the time and resources to do so.

@@henryford2950 Or maybe those who invest in the administrative state leverage that power to stifle competition and restrict social mobility in a way that hasn't been possible since feudalism.

I've read research that says the the black death, WW1 and the great depression were the only 3 periods in history which led to the wealthiest getting weaker and the poor having upwards mobility. At this point, the media has such a strong right wing bias economically and so pro big business that any centrist policy is called communism. So even the left wing parties are afraid to push any left wing policies. The democrats push to help business more than workers and the republicans don't even try. When the ACA was passed, every other country saw it as a massively pro business, right wing answer. Meanwhile, the media called it left wing, which was absurd. The capture of the state by the wealthy is actually the natural situation as power accumulates, and is something we need to actively fight against. If we relax, what happened since the 70s happens, which is that any group which pushes for workers is victimised and only people who will push to help big business will succeed. Pretty much every US President for the last 40 years has been aggressively pro business. Their talk might change, but it's consistent. The left is a 7/10 for big business and the right is a 10/10. But it's still enormously lopsided.

It's probably due to the fact that any markets that are available for exploitation require so much capital and expertise that anyone entering them need insane amounts of money to even enter them. It's pretty easy to market cigarettes at your high school, but it's a lot harder to develop and market any drug now.

@@thepoo1234 As AI is highly dependant on datasets, I suspect that even computer based stuff, which can make a billionare out of nothing will gradually go away as something which doesn't need capital.

Thank you. It went from the extreme in the opposite direction of prescribing too loosely to some doctors and clinics being ridiculous in their paranoia. There are many people who have VERY valid pain issues or disabilities that create chronic pain that would be impossible to get through life without some treatment for quality of life. Many people who have serious chronic pain issues are responsible with their meds and are being hurt in this run to the opposite extreme. Just be rational!

It's like that saying "The Jew cry out as he strikes you"

I get really sick of hearing “they were forced into it because they were oppressed” BS

@@warreng3813 it's a good thing i'm not saying that. just pointing out the tragic irony of the whole thing

Being Chaldean (neo Babylonian) we know how Jews think and this is why my people enslaved them thousands of years ago. They’re rats and if they bite you you get poisoned. My people live in Detroit and the Jews can’t stand us here bc they know the history and we have more money then they have here it pisses them off and we laugh and bang their women still til this day. People always ask us how are you guys so successful and we have this tribal saying we don’t allow the rat to bite and affect us. (the Jew) damn did I just say all that?

Better than Adam Curtis, imo, I think it's the sprinkling of dry wit in the delivery.

Yeah, I got some Adam Curtis vibes too, but this felt a lot more credible.

and oh my are they addictive! sigh.

I was totally oblivious to the powerful side effects of Antidepressants when I was first prescribed Venlafaxine at a huge dosage. Within a month I had almost complete Liver and Kidney failure. It seems that, whilst it is common knowledge in the Medical Community, my Psychiatrist was absent that day. A decade later and I hobble along in chronic pain.

.....except that many, MANY people actually DO benefit from antidepressants, and have even had their lives saved by them. But unfortunately, too many individuals get on their high horse about "big pharma" or they take a single bad experience with a medicstion, universalize it, and try to harm millions of people by getting them banned. If you don't need antidepressants, fine--but some of us do, and making broad statements (like yours) stigmatizing antidepressants is ignorant, selfish, and socially irresponsible.

@@18thcfoxxx I hold no ill will against the experts who tried to help me. They did what they thought was right. I would rather be attended to by qualified expert than a fake Guru. Sometime one draws a short straw. That's Life.

Alcohol

It seems mixed alright on my headphones. But If there is any problem with it I hope he fixes it too sure.

@@RenegadeShepard69 It's pretty low in all his videos :(

@@designtechdk I'd say the volume jump with the Willie The Pimp and the clip at 15:11 sounds too much to me. If its overall low that's not a problem so much (until the next video autoplays) but volume within the video is a problem. This is the first time I've noticed this issue in a Georg video.

I think it's just right 🤷‍♂️

I thought it was just my impaired hearing

And MedX was originally morphine but had to be renamed to beat Australia's censorship laws

It's all nice on ice!

@@cl8804 Thanks for that

@@tomsenior7405 You're welcome. It's a great sonk!

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They have a lot of similarties when you break it down. I can see why he'd like the idea of an authoritarian dictatorship over the masses he despises.

med-x is also morphine. they had to change the name on alot of drugs due to copyright and certain country's restrictions.

@@Kris-wo4pj What really struck be about the ad in this video is how the product is advertised as “ +4 Strength, -1 Perception”.

I’ve never seen an add for a stackable buff before.

Although it might sound insincere, I'm very sorry for your loss. Addiction is a horrible demon, and a sore subject to me too

With less Social Justice hypocrisy and Spergery from Virtue-Signaller Supremo, John Oliver. Oliver is as much of a corporate shill as the rest of them. John is an English Mediocrity who is only there to guilt-trip people whilst pleasing his advertisers at the same time. Schmidt is far more cynical and rarely offers simple solutions, he just tells it as it is with little outrage.

@@DR3ADER1 I watched ‘pindex’, Stephen Fry recommending Oliver. I nearly laughed myself sane. I don’t know what they have on him but he’s gone to the dark side. Surely he’s not that skint. “Surely not Stephen Fry”;… yeah!

@@DR3ADER1 agreed and well put