And Huxley Is Giggling In His Grave

& huxley is giggling in his grave

if aldous was still alive,
he’d laugh himself to death
when confronted with the new evidence
that Zogenix’s 
brand new spanking drug
“Zohydro,”
is yet another installment in mankind’s race
to create “soma,”
the government sponsored drug 
he wrote of in Brave New World,
which would send us all into an 
anesthetized oblivion,
so much so that eating, sleeping & sex
would hold second priority to
its ingestion, bearing
“All the advantages of Christianity 
and alcohol; none of their defect.”

and the mad doctors in big pharma 
are working night & day to pump out this
new prescription opiod narcotic---
a drug containing “10 times the amount of
hydrocodone as that of Vicodin,”
whose pure form would no longer be split with
acetaminophen, 
like those versions that exist today,
so much weaker than this new
novelty, 
whose timed-released quality could easily be
circumvented, by crushing the drug &
hence producing “an intense, immediate high.”

there are those voices that no one listens to,
like the National Coalition Against Prescription 
Drug Abuse & 
the Advocates for the Reform of Prescription 
Opioids,
who claim that one more legal, highly addictive,
narcotic, 
need not be pushed onto the public by 
government sponsored pharmaceutical companies
whose sole purpose is to hook individuals for
profit---
how fortunate big pharma is,
because if someone did listen to them,
one might suppose that all those in prison for
the sale, possession or use of narcotics
would have to be set free,
and our BIG FAT LAND OF THE FREE wouldn’t 
want that,
now would we.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011



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