They should all be in jail....along with the doctors
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America Paperback – August 6, 2019..
I don’t trust BigPharma and neither does my dear friend, a graduate pharmacist who worked for a BigPharma company, took doctors on Hawaiian vacations to persuade them to prescribe more drugs.
Friend and I avoid pharmaceuticals and take a lot of nutritional supplements to stay well, rather than getting sick and needing drugs.
Several years ago the mcare disbursement was tied to a question about pain. It caused so much addiction, it was removed. Of course the insurance companies who “administer “ mcare get off scott free.
Why is a company that conspired to sell drugs contributing to a rash of deaths and addictions across the globe allowed to every manufacture one more?
Why is it that drug companies and doctors are blamed for addiction rather than the addicts themselves?
Purdue Pharma may be guilty of a lot of fraudulent behavior, but oxycontin is nothing more than time-release oxycodone, which was invented in Germany in 1916 ...
time-release oxycodone is a god-send for after-surgery pain as ordinary opioids have extremely short half-lives ... i don’t know how many times i was in agony two hours after a drug like dilaudid wore off after surgery and i was told i couldn’t have anything else for pain for four more hours ...
oxycontin is no more additive than its constituent ingredient or any other opioid ... blame doctors for prescribing these extremely addictive drugs in too large of quantities and not emphasizing to their patients their highly addictive properties ...