The Family Making Billions from the Opioid Crisis
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Re: The Family Making Billions from the Opioid Crisis
#2I love how the article switches between OxyContin and opioids throughout the article, particularly when talking about deaths. It's a clever way to include drugs like heroin, fentanyl, etc in the numbers to inflate them and make the story more gripping.
Of course it's silly to hold OxyContin's manufacturer responsible for all opioid deaths.
Re: The Family Making Billions from the Opioid Crisis
#3I love how the article switches between OxyContin and opioids throughout the article, particularly when talking about deaths. It's a clever way to include drugs like heroin, fentanyl, etc in the numbers to inflate them and make the story more gripping. Of course it's silly to hold OxyContin's manufacturer responsible for all opioid deaths.
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Re: The Family Making Billions from the Opioid Crisis
#4I love how the article switches between OxyContin and opioids throughout the article, particularly when talking about deaths. It's a clever way to include drugs like heroin, fentanyl, etc in the numbers to inflate them and make the story more gripping. Of course it's silly to hold OxyContin's manufacturer responsible for all opioid deaths.
How many people on heroin or fentanyl started on Rx Oxy?
Re: The Family Making Billions from the Opioid Crisis
#5I love how the article switches between OxyContin and opioids throughout the article, particularly when talking about deaths. It's a clever way to include drugs like heroin, fentanyl, etc in the numbers to inflate them and make the story more gripping. Of course it's silly to hold OxyContin's manufacturer responsible for all opioid deaths.
Over-prescription of OxyContin is considered a major reason many heroin and fentanyl users became addicted. If street price of OxyContin would be lower they'd still be using that.
Re: The Family Making Billions from the Opioid Crisis
#6I love how the article switches between OxyContin and opioids throughout the article, particularly when talking about deaths. It's a clever way to include drugs like heroin, fentanyl, etc in the numbers to inflate them and make the story more gripping. Of course it's silly to hold OxyContin's manufacturer responsible for all opioid deaths.
The company and the family is responsible for dramatically increasing number of opioid prescriptions based on fraudulent marketing and made up evidence. A lot of people, who, as a result, got addicted to Oxy, at some point ended up switching to heroin because it's cheaper. So, the manufacturer is not responsible for all opioid deaths, but is responsible for a significant percentage of those deaths.
Re: The Family Making Billions from the Opioid Crisis
#7I love how the article switches between OxyContin and opioids throughout the article, particularly when talking about deaths. It's a clever way to include drugs like heroin, fentanyl, etc in the numbers to inflate them and make the story more gripping. Of course it's silly to hold OxyContin's manufacturer responsible for all opioid deaths.
There absolutely are grounds to hold the manufacturer accountable. As the article mentions, the company marketed OxyContin as a medication supposed to be used for all kinds of ailments, almost casually. Purdue Pharmaceuticals advertised to doctors, and directly contributed to the overprescription of opioids, knowing full well the addiction potential. There are absolutely legitimate uses for OxyContin - I myself was prescribed it for a week or so after a particularly invasive knee surgery - but many many cases of pain management should have been dealt with using much tamer and less addictive treatments. In search of profits, the company influenced decisions at all parts of the prescription process that have directly led to the deaths of tens of thousands. They should be held accountable for that.
Re: The Family Making Billions from the Opioid Crisis
#8I love how the article switches between OxyContin and opioids throughout the article, particularly when talking about deaths. It's a clever way to include drugs like heroin, fentanyl, etc in the numbers to inflate them and make the story more gripping. Of course it's silly to hold OxyContin's manufacturer responsible for all opioid deaths.
The company and the family is responsible for dramatically increasing number of opioid prescriptions based on fraudulent marketing and made up evidence. A lot of people, who, as a result, got addicted to Oxy, at some point ended up switching to heroin because it's cheaper. So, the manufacturer is not responsible for all opioid deaths, but is responsible for a significant percentage of those deaths.
For more on this, see https://youtu.be/5pdPrQFjo2o?t=164
"How many people here moved from prescription drugs to heroin?" Everybody raised their hands.
Re: The Family Making Billions from the Opioid Crisis
#9I love how the article switches between OxyContin and opioids throughout the article, particularly when talking about deaths. It's a clever way to include drugs like heroin, fentanyl, etc in the numbers to inflate them and make the story more gripping. Of course it's silly to hold OxyContin's manufacturer responsible for all opioid deaths.
How many people on heroin or fentanyl started on Rx Oxy?
Good question! I don't know and I assume others don't as well.
But we need a scapegoat right? Purdue will suffice.
Re: The Family Making Billions from the Opioid Crisis
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The company and the family is responsible for dramatically increasing number of opioid prescriptions based on fraudulent marketing and made up evidence. A lot of people, who, as a result, got addicted to Oxy, at some point ended up switching to heroin because it's cheaper. So, the manufacturer is not responsible for all opioid deaths, but is responsible for a significant percentage of those deaths.
For more on this, see https://youtu.be/5pdPrQFjo2o?t=164 "How many people here moved from prescription drugs to heroin?" Everybody raised their hands.
There are hundreds of prescription opioids. In fact, generic acetaminophen/oxycodone is the most prescribed. Perdue doesn't make that product.