Speaking of Pete Norman, I'm surprised no one has mentioned that he fired Pam O'Sullivan this month. Here is a guy who has accomplished nothing at the federal level aside from being a fundamentalist right-wing nut-job laughingstock on capital hill. Instead of Pete going, or his useless lobbyist Megan, or Bob Foreman (who has spent a career alienating the SUD provider community) they fire Pam.
OK...so Pam is colossally annoying and a sycophantic motor mouth....all true. However, she has decades of real, solid, groundbreaking accomplishments she can point to. Through what she did in opening up Medicaid and private insurance coverage, starting jail and prison reentry programs, and a variety of other behind the scenes accomplishments, Pam is probably personally responsible for tens of millions of dollars in Vivitrol sales alone. And there is no one who has been more loyal to the company. So she goes...and the three stooges (Pete, Megan, and Bob) stay? If there is one vignette that sums up what is wrong with this company this is it.
Shame on you Richard Popps for signing off on this.