I don't understand the hatred directed at the Sacklers. Oxycodone is, just like all other opiates, highly effective at suppressing pain, potentially addictive, and deadly in large enough doses. This has been common medical knowledge for millennia. Why do so many people believe that they are responsible for overdose deaths?
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#232There will be people like Sacklers until we start putting them away and throwing away the key. We do need to put rich people in jail at least every now and again, if for no other reason than to demonstrate we're not a banana republic.
Unfortunately, vermin like the Sacklers have access to top lawyers. The two founding brothers are dead, so you won't be able to put them away; they are already put away, permanently. However, their despicable offspring managed to flee the country with their ill-gotten gains; good luck finding them now. My biggest beef with this case has been that people should not be allowed to just "buy" themselves out of jail. The…
Three brothers! The dynasty origin and eldest brother is Arthur Sackler.
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#233Without proper context, it’s not clear to me if this is good or bad. It bad for the victims because there’s no settlement. It’s good for justice as people with a ton of money shouldn’t be above the law.
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#235I don't understand the hatred directed at the Sacklers. Oxycodone is, just like all other opiates, highly effective at suppressing pain, potentially addictive, and deadly in large enough doses. This has been common medical knowledge for millennia. Why do so many people believe that they are responsible for overdose deaths?
Because they marketed an opioid as an "extended release" form when they knew from their own internal studies that the pain relief only lasted the standard 6 hours instead of the 8 hours that were claimed. As a result, people would find themselves taking more to stay on top of their symptoms and the resulting ramp in use would leave people debilitated.
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#236I don't understand the hatred directed at the Sacklers. Oxycodone is, just like all other opiates, highly effective at suppressing pain, potentially addictive, and deadly in large enough doses. This has been common medical knowledge for millennia. Why do so many people believe that they are responsible for overdose deaths?
Exactly. It took the collaboration of many different people, all of which also profited from it, to bring about the opioid crisis.
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#237I don't understand the hatred directed at the Sacklers. Oxycodone is, just like all other opiates, highly effective at suppressing pain, potentially addictive, and deadly in large enough doses. This has been common medical knowledge for millennia. Why do so many people believe that they are responsible for overdose deaths?
because the way they encouraged doctors to push it to everyone, regardless if they needed it or not. they aggressively marketed and pushed the drug in situations that didnt call for it
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#238What share of the guild do the medical providers that prescribed the opioids to their patients have? There would be no opioid crisis if none were willing to do it.
Scott Alexander had a very interesting writeup about his experiences: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/16/against-against-pseudo...
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#239This is the only reasonable outcome... you can't deny some people justice just because other people think it's fine. The sacklers have done immeasurable damage to the country. All of their wealth should be removed. Their foundation should be dismantled and used to fund damage and mental health services for addicts of the opioid crisis that they went on to create. And perhaps some of the individual pushers/purveyors o…
More narrowly, a judge can’t impose an outcome or settlement on someone where the law does not allow for it.
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#240I don't understand the hatred directed at the Sacklers. Oxycodone is, just like all other opiates, highly effective at suppressing pain, potentially addictive, and deadly in large enough doses. This has been common medical knowledge for millennia. Why do so many people believe that they are responsible for overdose deaths?
Because they marketed it as a non-addictive opioid because it was extended release and encouraged doctors always to prescribe the maximum amount despite internal testing showing the extended release was bogus and it was still addictive?