Please meet Louisiana Republican gubernatorial candidate and current congressman Ralph Abraham. He’s a medical doctor and a punk.

There’s a story this week showing the opioid blood on his hands.

Over the course of seven years, from 2006 to 2012, two pharmacies in rural northeast Louisiana, owned Ralph Abraham, Clinic Pharmacy of Mangham and Adams Clinic Pharmacy of Winnsboro, doled out 1,478,236 doses of powerful opioids, according to a Drug Enforcement Administration database recently published by the Washington Post.

The pharmacies are 12.5 miles away from one another, and the two communities have a combined population of approximately 6,000 people. Despite the surge in opioid prescriptions, the region’s population has actually decreased during the previous twenty years.

Couple this horror with Abraham’s strong stand against marijunana.

Again, as a physician, let me tell you. What I see in my practice, from any level of marijuana use, is bad,” Abraham stated. “I’m against recreational, I’m against medical. In the medical profession, for these chronic pain, poor cancer patients that need help, we have other alternatives that work better, Dilaudid, OxyContin, you name it, Oxycodone, we have several options that do a much better job for chronic pain.

Yeah, he doesn’t make a profit from marijunana.

He was buying all his opioid supply from one pharmacy, Morris and Dickson Co. – a family business also located in Louisiana.  Dickson is a big political donor in Louisiana. and was Abraham’s guest at the State of the Union.  You know, because scum attracts scum.

In May of this year, his [Dickson’s] company agreed to pay $22 million in civil penalties to settle charges it had violated the Controlled Substances Act.

Ralph Abraham has repeatedly expressed his opposition to lawsuits filed against opioid distributors and manufacturers, arguing that these pharmaceutical companies are merely meeting the market’s demand.

Y’all, it’s a long article but it’s stunning. I want to hold his head in a bowl of gumbo.  He’s a pusher, plain and simple.  And he’s a congressman who wants to be governor.