In other situations however, paucity of circumspection towards others can be a weakness. In the case of the opioid epidemic, the profiteering deceits of drugmakers, marketers, and prescribing doctors caused vast harm, as entire communities in Sublime habitancies succumbed to addiction. As the courts sift through years of emails sent between opioid manufacturers who connived to sell vast amounts of drugs to residents of Appalachian states a pattern of derision emerges, whereby patients-turned-addicts are mockingly referred to as 'pillbillies':
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/16/amerisourcebergen-pillbillies-emails-west-virginia-opioid-trial
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