DR's don't have to prescribe it... no different than blaming guns for murder or cars for drunk drivers it's an opioid, treat it accordingly
Posted on 03/14/2017 12:15:54 PM PDT by C19fan
A city in Washington is suing a drug manufacturer over claims it let OxyContin flood the black market sparking an addiction epidemic in the community.
Everett, north of Seattle, is suing Purdue Pharma which makes the opioid pain medication.
The city, under mayor Ray Stephanson, says it has already spent millions combating OxyContin and heroin abuse after deaths from painkillers and heroin use spiked and street crimes increased.
In an unusual case, city chiefs are claiming that Purdue Pharma knowingly allowed pills to be funneled into the black market and the city of about 108,000.
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I did one Oxycotin after my hernia operation.
The effects were so dark and crazy I just dealt with the pain and used normal OTC drugs.
The hospital gave me no advice on when how often to take.
I just knew that it was dangerous based on what it did to me.
Watching Oann while surfing FR and the stories coincide in timing. interesting observation only, not criticizing.
They should sue the doctors that overprescribe the stuff too.
Personally, I take no pharmaceuticals and haven’t for years. Decades.
Keeps me healthy.
I’m 65 y/o and have many times been on opioids for pain throughout my life. Once after a bad accident I did get addicted to vicodin, but kicked it. I’m not Evil Kinevil, but I’ve been thru a lot of pain and am really glad for painkillers. I’m sorry it negatively affects so many.
There have always been opioids on the market and they have always been abused. The earliest I know of is laudanum (19th cent).
If there is some difference today as to oxy being abused at higher than historical rates, it’d be caused by two things:
1)Rx du-jour where I believe the previous fad was percocet. This is just a function of pharma marketing to Dr offices. “Newer” drugs pay premiums to docs in order to break into the market.
2)There are more folks looking to get high. Plenty of unemployed and ever increasing gov dependence. Suicide rates climbing too. All hallmarks of socialist countries.
So the only reason oxy is hot is because it’s the most recent. Politicians really only have themselves to blame for expanding soul-killing socialism.
Had the US been as socialist in the 90s as it is today, and we’d had the same economic picture then as we have now, we’d likely be blaming percocet, or what not, for an unusual rise in addiction.
#2 is the real reason behind it. #1 is a matter of coincidence which makes oxy an easy scapegoat.
Don’t be deceived. Both socialism and addiction are evil. Probably why you often see them together.
there’s no words to describe how much this sickens me. And I’m not reading the other posts because I know there are a number that will talk about personal responsibility, when a synthetic heroin drug is given to treat pain to the average Joe.
Not according to Oxy’s literature in the mid 90s. They were quite insistent they’d formulated out the addictive properties. They lied, people died, they should be sued.
This news is so depressing! Just give me my OxyCotin to cope with it all.
Yeah, I pretty much agree with your fix for the problem. Otherwise it’ll nickel and dime us to death.
“How can you make that claim, that they hid its addictive potency? All opioids are addictive.”
The manufacturers of Oxy famously were going around making claims to doctors and hospitals that Oxy was much less addictive than other opioid painkillers in order to boost sales. They have already lost lawsuits and been forced to make settlements because of that, like this one for $634 million:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/oxycontins-deception-costs-firm-634m/
What if there is fraud involved? For example, if drug companies knowingly mislead doctors and patients as to the risk of addiction?
Is the party that defrauded someone liable in any part for the addiction or is it still only the addict’s fault?
DR's don't have to prescribe it... no different than blaming guns for murder or cars for drunk drivers it's an opioid, treat it accordingly
The problem is with the pushers in the pharmaceutical industry...for pain killers and for behavioral meds such as Adderol. Also, what about the pushers in the medical industry who've handed out prescriptions like they were candy? It's gotten so mind-altering and pain-killing crap isn't a choice, it's an expectation.
I detoxed over seven years ago to boost my immune system. In the two incidences since then (dental and shoulder injury) doctors gave me prescriptions for these poisons. I refused them, and they lectured me! So I filled the prescriptions just to shut up the physician-pushers and threw them away.
If people are not expected to deal with pain, of course that's a first step to addiction.
Purdue hid how addictive Oxycotin was.”
We learned in school 50 years ago that ALL Opiates were Addictive??, How exactly did they “Hide” something that is Common Knowledge????
I know from experience how addicting it is, my doctors made me a junkie on Opiates(Percodan)in 1978. But the Day after the Surgery I no longer need the pain meds, but I stayed in the Hospital for 2 weeks Going through Withdrawls.
From the article:
OxyContin, a trade name for oxycodone, is designed to have a time-released effect on a patient's pain, but people who abuse the medication will crush the pills and then swallow, snort or inject the drug so that its pain-killing properties — meant to be spread out over 12 hours — are absorbed all at once.
Again, opioids are addictive, their claims were they were less addictive, which they would have been had they taken them as they were designed to be taken.
Automobiles are killing machines if they are not used as developed and operated in unsafe manners. Now they have lots of safety features built in, but if drivers disable those features then the features are worthless.
I liken this to holding gun manufactures liable for how people misuse and abuse their weapons.
Exactly. I do not see where someone with chronic pain being prescribed it indefinitely is a problem. So what if they are addicted? It is the recreational addicts that are the problem. They are creating an atmosphere where doctors are fearful of prescribing to those who need the medication. Really ticks me off.
“Yes, and abusers subverted their claims by destroying the measures they had put in place”
All abusers did this? You know this how???
“their claims were they were less addictive, which they would have been had they taken them as they were designed to be taken.”
Nonsense, oxycodone is a very powerful opioid, it is no less addictive than any other. Making them time release does not make them less addictive, it simply helps to offset withdrawal symptoms.
It wouldn't matter if there was. People who want to use recreationally will use anything. If there was no such things as opioids, there would be any number of things to get a "high" off of. People are abusing Lyrica (pregabalin) and Neurotin (gabapentin) since they can't get opioids. Overdoses are on the rise for these "non-narcotic" opioid replacements. West Virginia is the only state I've seen stats published in the news admitting the problem with these anticonvulsants peddled for pain although it's happening in other states, too. Europe has been battling Lyrica & Neurotin overdoses for at least a decade because of the heavy recreational use. I suppose it must be akin to the old Quualude buzz. However, the high doses to achieve a "buzz" is, also, responsible for people dying from seizures. That's right if you take too high a dose of those "safer" pain (anticonvulsant) pills, it will CAUSE seizures and death in someone who doesn't even have a history of seizures. Opioids can be a beneficial and effective drug for pain relief IF used in moderation as prescribed. The public has been sold a bill of goods on the safety and the AMA preference of prescribing anticonvulsants for pain control. The FDA threw the baby out with the bathwater.
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