Government and Politics
September 10, 2024
Bridge Michigan: “What separates Rogers from other policymakers at the time… was his close ties to pain foundations that were bankrolled by drug companies trying to increase sales of pain pills like Oxycontin.”
LANSING — It’s been twelve days of silence from Mike Rogers since Bridge Michigan’s bombshell report on Rogers’ toxic record as “one of Congress’ leading advocates for increased access to pain care” and his “close ties to pain foundations that were bankrolled by drug companies trying to increase sales of pain pills like Oxycontin.”
Rogers refuses to answer for his “decade of advocacy” to “boost opioid prescriptions” despite taking “hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the same drug companies that now are paying billions of dollars in national opioid settlements for their roles in causing the epidemic.”
Rogers’ “support of the drug industry was notable enough that he is referenced in at least one book about the opioid crisis,” and reporters have pointed out how “it’s hard to deny that Congressman Rogers was definitely involved… in the opioid crisis.”
Michiganders deserve to hear from Rogers about his work “contribut[ing] to the crisis” “as the nation tumbled into a crushing epidemic it is still battling today.”
Here are five key questions that Rogers refuses to answer: