1. Identify the major issue in the article. What is the primary ethical issue and why did you select it?

2. Analyze the social and business implications of the ethical issue and their impact on society.

3. choose the appropriate business support tools and use them to support your argument.

4. conclude and defend your decision given the analysis you've done how would you approach this problem as a corporate citizen or professional?

Profiting from Pain: Business and the U.S. opioid Epidemic a connect Anne T. Lawrence San Jose State University In 2017. MeKesson Corporation, a leading wholesale drug distributor, agreed to pay $150 million in fines to the U.S. Department of Justice. The charges were that the company had failed to implement effective controls to prevent the diversion of prescription opioids for nonlegitimate uses, in violation of the Controlled Substances Act. 1 For example. McKesson had supplied pharmacies in Mingo County. West Virginia-a poor, rural county with the fourth-highest death rate from opioid overdoses in the nation-with 3.3 million more hydrocodone pills in one year than it had in ftve consecutive earlier years. 2 At the time, Mingo County had just 25,000 residents. Yet, the companty had not flaesed these orders to federal drug enforcement officials as out-of theordinary. McKesson, which at the time was the fifh largest conpany in the United States-with almost $200 billion in annual revenue-played a largely unnoticed middleman role in the pharmaceutical industry. The firm's main business was shipping legal, government approved medicines to pharmacies, hospitals, and health systems. McKerson's unmarked trucks rolled out at midnight from its 28 enormous, highly automated distribution centers, on route to their morning deliveries of one-third of all pharmaceuticals sold in North America. Although distributors like MeKesson did not either manufacture or dispense opioids, they were responsible for notifying the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and corresponding state regulators if orders suggested that controlled substances were being impropenly diverted. 3 McKerson and other drug distributors were not the only businesses implicated in the nation's burgeoning epidemic of addictive opioids. Drug companies-such as Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin-had developed new prescription opioids and aseressively marketed them to doctors and patients, making vast profits for their owners. Entrepreneurs had opened pain clinics where unscrupulous doctors could write big scripts for the addictive pills, and pharmacies had looked the other way while dispensing drugs to suspicious patients. And illegal businesses, from producers of street drugs like heroin to networks of dealers, had also played their parts. What responsibility did these businesses bear for the tragedy of opioid addiction, disability, and death? Copritit esols Anne T Lmence; at riehts reierved