I'm a bit disappointed that this article doesn't explain WHY OxyContin turned out to be so addictive. Because that is the biggest of all the crimes that Purdue committed: massaging research to make it look like the drug's effects actually lasted as long as they claimed, and demanding that doctors prescribe higher doses instead of more fr…
I'm a bit disappointed that this article doesn't explain WHY OxyContin turned out to be so addictive. Because that is the biggest of all the crimes that Purdue committed: massaging research to make it look like the drug's effects actually lasted as long as they claimed, and demanding that doctors prescribe higher doses instead of more frequent ones.
And all for the money, since insurance companies would not have agreed to pay the higher price of OxyContin (as compared to oxycodone, long available as a generic drug), since "less frequent doses" was the only selling point of the new drug.
In effect, Purdue created a situation that CAUSED addiction. When people are made desperate for their next dose, and the doses are high, addiction will be the inevitable result. This was truly a crime against humanity.
1000% agree! I presented on how these opioids, Oxy, Tramadol, you name it, was literally PUMPING MORPHINE into the masses. How could this NOT turn into a pandemic? You're 100% spot on.
I just wrote the FDA should be named a co-defendant in future suits. Throw in the insurers as well. Alas, without the complicity of the private insurers and hospital administrators— whores, every of them — the government’s take over of medicine fails.
The Panama Canal for years was a total US government entity. If through Canal operational error a ship was damaged or a crew member was injured or killed, the shipping line had no legal recourse to recoup losses. In 1950 the congress passed a law creating the Panama Canal Company. It issued a single shared which was held by the Secretary of the Army. Now shipping companies could recoup through the courts any loss or injury from the US Government owned canal.
I understand. But operational error is not unlawful. As I am untouched by the opiod pandemic it has not been a hot button issue for me, but I begin to see indicia of illegality. And like the FBI colluding (yeah I said and I meant it) with social media to suppress important information, arguably that is unlawful and not subject to government immunity. The problem at this precise moment is that courts have said yes that is true but only when X conduct has previously defined as unlawful conduct. Which gives the slimy bastards plenty of wiggle room. But courts appear to me to be leaning 1) more conservative in general and 2) more skeptical of the executive. branch.
I'm a bit disappointed that this article doesn't explain WHY OxyContin turned out to be so addictive. Because that is the biggest of all the crimes that Purdue committed: massaging research to make it look like the drug's effects actually lasted as long as they claimed, and demanding that doctors prescribe higher doses instead of more frequent ones.
And all for the money, since insurance companies would not have agreed to pay the higher price of OxyContin (as compared to oxycodone, long available as a generic drug), since "less frequent doses" was the only selling point of the new drug.
In effect, Purdue created a situation that CAUSED addiction. When people are made desperate for their next dose, and the doses are high, addiction will be the inevitable result. This was truly a crime against humanity.
And it is all opioids in the US. We consume 97% of the world’s Vicodin too.
1000% agree! I presented on how these opioids, Oxy, Tramadol, you name it, was literally PUMPING MORPHINE into the masses. How could this NOT turn into a pandemic? You're 100% spot on.
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/
I just wrote the FDA should be named a co-defendant in future suits. Throw in the insurers as well. Alas, without the complicity of the private insurers and hospital administrators— whores, every of them — the government’s take over of medicine fails.
The government is immune from prosecution. Convenient, no.
Not if the conduct is unlawful.
The Panama Canal for years was a total US government entity. If through Canal operational error a ship was damaged or a crew member was injured or killed, the shipping line had no legal recourse to recoup losses. In 1950 the congress passed a law creating the Panama Canal Company. It issued a single shared which was held by the Secretary of the Army. Now shipping companies could recoup through the courts any loss or injury from the US Government owned canal.
I understand. But operational error is not unlawful. As I am untouched by the opiod pandemic it has not been a hot button issue for me, but I begin to see indicia of illegality. And like the FBI colluding (yeah I said and I meant it) with social media to suppress important information, arguably that is unlawful and not subject to government immunity. The problem at this precise moment is that courts have said yes that is true but only when X conduct has previously defined as unlawful conduct. Which gives the slimy bastards plenty of wiggle room. But courts appear to me to be leaning 1) more conservative in general and 2) more skeptical of the executive. branch.
Let's hope its true.
Very.