Andrea Gibson
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A lot of people that are just treating people horribly.
I don't want to deny that.
But I don't think that I can at the core say I believe people are good or bad.
Yeah, I would love to.
My sister, and so she's part of the reason that my whole big pharma issues with some of that.
But my sister is wonderful.
And my sister is 10 years younger than me.
So when she was born, I had this love for her that wasn't like a sibling love.
It was...
It was like I felt almost like her parent, even though my parents were great parents to her.
But the age difference, I had that sort of parental love, which it was like, you know, if you die, I'll die because, you know, you are you are my baby.
And so when she was 14, she got addicted to Oxycontin.
And I think a lot of people know this at this point, but that pharmaceutical company specifically went into communities where people were in pain and people were struggling, communities where people typically worked hard, hardworking class people, and they specifically put that drug in those areas of the country.
I grew up in a poor area of the country with lots of really working hard, working class people.
And so the whole town, I mean, it was this cute little town.
And then all of a sudden, everybody is addicted.
And so my sister, that happened.
She was the happiest kid I had ever known.
And then all of a sudden, she's not.
And that addiction lasted 13 years.