The cynic in me thinks Kapoor was "sacrificed" to shield the Sacklers. Sort of like how Rajaratnam was "sacrificed" to shield the large banks.
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#32Grill that bitch.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I was 19 I messed my back up very badly on the job. The company tried very hard not to take responsibility for it, going so far as court with dueling doctors. The fact I refused opiods for my pain was used against me, "If it's so bad why aren't you taking the pain medications?" My lawyer told me that if I had taken them I likely would have gotten 50% more int he settlement. I don't regret it though. Addiction is…
So always get the script, then flush them?
A strategy defeated by a single question under oath: “And were you taking the drugs as prescribed?”
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#34Does anyone struggle with the fact that 1) people who are very sick or injured need pain control and 2) the only tool in a doctor's bag is an opoid and 3) we are somehow going after the people that produce the opoids that patients need, to live a less-painful life?
Far more people die annually of alcohol related illnesses, than do opoid overdoses. This is the "crisis" is not a crisis at all. In fact, if you review the CDC's numbers, the rate of increase in opoid related deaths and the total number, relative to other more significant causes of death, are unremarkable. [link] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
By the numbers, we should be tripling and quadrupling the amount of money for mental health treatment to reduce suicide and alcohol dependency.
Please, before you vote down or troll me, review the numbers yourself. The numbers speak for themselves [link]https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus16.pdf#019
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#35Does anyone struggle with the fact that 1) people who are very sick or injured need pain control and 2) the only tool in a doctor's bag is an opoid and 3) we are somehow going after the people that produce the opoids that patients need, to live a less-painful life? Far more people die annually of alcohol related illnesses, than do opoid overdoses. This is the "crisis" is not a crisis at all. In fact, if you review th…
No, because there are many other treatments for pain. The best one is often physical therapy and other repeated physical treatments (especially for back pain), but these are more expensive than a pill!
Additionally, there are other alternatives that people like this billionaire have vested interests in keeping illegal. Such as marijuana, there has been some decent evidence that it can be used to replace opiates as a pain treatment for some people (and has waaaay less side effects).
I don't even work in healthcare, so I imagine there are a ton of options I am overlooking.
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#36Does anyone struggle with the fact that 1) people who are very sick or injured need pain control and 2) the only tool in a doctor's bag is an opoid and 3) we are somehow going after the people that produce the opoids that patients need, to live a less-painful life? Far more people die annually of alcohol related illnesses, than do opoid overdoses. This is the "crisis" is not a crisis at all. In fact, if you review th…
I think you should look into Insys before you use them to take a stance like this.
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#37Does anyone struggle with the fact that 1) people who are very sick or injured need pain control and 2) the only tool in a doctor's bag is an opoid and 3) we are somehow going after the people that produce the opoids that patients need, to live a less-painful life? Far more people die annually of alcohol related illnesses, than do opoid overdoses. This is the "crisis" is not a crisis at all. In fact, if you review th…
You changed the subject to alcohol though. No one said alcohol wasn't a problem or that opioids have no use. We might as well start talking about first addressing everyone killed in car accidents or unjust wars.
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#38The cynic in me thinks Kapoor was "sacrificed" to shield the Sacklers. Sort of like how Rajaratnam was "sacrificed" to shield the large banks.
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#39...as much as 10,000 times more potent than morphine ...In the US Fentanyl caused 20,100 deaths in 2016, a rise of 540% over the past 3 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl Put him in the cell next to El Chappo IMO. If the government digs they will find something and they have plenty of tools for informers. You cannot manage a billion dollar corporation with thousands of employees by whispering while walking…
A couple random things:
1) I broke my leg quite badly, and after morphine and dilaudid didn't help they put me on fentanyl, which at the dosage they gave me, just barely helped with the pain. I am VERY glad they had that in their arsenal.
2) My understanding is that most Fentanyl deaths are due to heroin being cut with fentanyl (or even replaced with) on the street market and addicts don't know the potency of what they get, and OD. That fentanyl is coming illegally usually from China (either directly or via Mexico, etc..) and is isn't directly the fault of Pharma. If you want to solve that problem you need to either stabilize heroin potency or make it easy to test, etc... also making Narcan cheaply/freely available would save a lot of lives.
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#40Does anyone struggle with the fact that 1) people who are very sick or injured need pain control and 2) the only tool in a doctor's bag is an opoid and 3) we are somehow going after the people that produce the opoids that patients need, to live a less-painful life? Far more people die annually of alcohol related illnesses, than do opoid overdoses. This is the "crisis" is not a crisis at all. In fact, if you review th…
The vast majority of "alcohol related illnesses" hit people late in life--taking a decade or so off of their life.
The opiod epidemic is hitting people in their prime. It's the leading cause of death for 15-65 year olds, and it dwarfs any other cause for people in their prime.
https://www.cdc.gov/injury/images/lc-charts/leading_causes_o...
(for reference, 90% of "unintentional poisonings" are opioid/opiate related, and it's data from 2015. By some measures, the increase in 2016 was an additional 10,000 ODs)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/05/upshot/opioid...