The Limits of Charity from a Drug Company

When Stephen Hill, a police sergeant in Louisville, Kentucky, arrived at a McDonald’s parking lot in response to a call about a suspected drug overdose, he found a young man, his lips purple, slumped in the front seat of a car, clearly in respiratory distress. The man’s frantic girlfriend had told the emergency dispatcher that her boyfriend had taken heroin. His breathing was shallow, and the clock was ticking.