Artist Nan Goldin takes on the billionaire family behind OxyContin
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Re: Artist Nan Goldin takes on the billionaire family behind OxyContin
#2Why don't doctors simply stop prescribing these drugs?
Re: Artist Nan Goldin takes on the billionaire family behind OxyContin
#3Many of us knew about the Home Loan Fraud the Prescription Drug Fraud for years before it "exploded" and yet there didn't seem to be anything to do about it.
The media and government proved their incompetence and corruption with the ruined lives of millions.
I'm hopeful that the internet is changing this and the time between new massive scams and their exposure shrinks so that fewer people are hurt. That's the best we can hope for right now.
Re: Artist Nan Goldin takes on the billionaire family behind OxyContin
#4Why don't doctors simply stop prescribing these drugs?
Momma needs a new pair of shoes.
Re: Artist Nan Goldin takes on the billionaire family behind OxyContin
#5Why don't doctors simply stop prescribing these drugs?
Because at the end of the day, they still work and truly do help a vast number of people.
Re: Artist Nan Goldin takes on the billionaire family behind OxyContin
#6Why don't doctors simply stop prescribing these drugs?
They really work and/or are the best/only thing that works for some people?
Re: Artist Nan Goldin takes on the billionaire family behind OxyContin
#7Nan Goldin to the rescue! Brilliant! The Sacklers fancy themselves as philanthropists for the arts. For an artist to bite the hand that feeds them is usually suicide, but not for Nan. Nan's name is made. And heroin was a constant backdrop. The Sacklers made her whether they wanted her or not.
Re: Artist Nan Goldin takes on the billionaire family behind OxyContin
#8Why don't doctors simply stop prescribing these drugs?
They haven't completely stopped, but they've scaled back quite a bit. This has created a whole host of new problems. From the article:
> In the past five years, as prescriptions for opioids fell in response to the crisis, Americans didn’t shake the habit or seek rehab; they turned to heroin instead. Four out of five people in the US who try heroin today started with prescription painkillers, according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Then street heroin started being secretly cut with the dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl.
I appreciate Nan Goldin as an artist but I'm not sure what she can do here, as this is more powerful than even the Sacklers at this point. In a kind of irony, her work was an inspiration for the first wave of heroin chic in the 90's.
Re: Artist Nan Goldin takes on the billionaire family behind OxyContin
#9Why don't doctors simply stop prescribing these drugs?
Because at the end of the day, they still work and truly do help a vast number of people.
"Really work" in this case meaning probable addiction and potential death in exchange for a month or two of pain relief. If it "really worked" as advertised (maximum of one dose needed per 12 hours) we wouldn't have this problem at all. OxyContin's much-marketed delayed release mechanism is BS and it's costing thousands of lives and livelihoods.
Re: Artist Nan Goldin takes on the billionaire family behind OxyContin
#10I don't think it is appropriate to blame doctors in the US for this. She was initially prescribed the drug in Berlin. The article mentions that she was in a high-risk group that should not be prescribed the drug, but it is likely that the European doctor was legitimately unaware of that.
"When, back in New York, doctors refused to supply her any more, she turned to the black market, and to cheaper hard street drugs whenever she ran out of money."
I think this person should take responsibility for her own mistakes, rather than trying to blame them on other people.