PJM: Dependency on synthetic opioids is as bad as being addicted to illegal street drugs like heroin or methamphetamines. Tens of thousands of people die every year from overdoses connected to opioids and the toll on those addicted to opioids is massive in terms of emotional and physical health.
The most popular opioid this century has been OxyContin, a synthetic pain killer introduced by Purdue Pharma in 1996. More than 3.5 million legal prescriptions of oxycontin have been given out by doctors since 2006, making it the most popular painkiller on the market.
The problem with OxyContin is that, like natural opioids such as heroin, it’s highly addictive. And the company, Purdue Pharma knew it early on and did little to warn patients or doctors.
Purdue is a privately held corporation owned by the Sackler family and is facing at least 3,000 lawsuits for its business decisions that many public health experts believe contributed to the opioid crisis. The family declared bankruptcy and tried to reorganize the company without the burden of facing up to $10 billion in claims. More than 95 percent of creditors signed off on the deal.
But eight states refused and took the case to court. A federal judge agreed with the states, tossing the settlement by claiming that the New York bankruptcy court did not have the authority to grant the Sacklers legal protection from future lawsuits. more
Freer and Sackler?
So obvious, now.
They ruined entire swaths of communities.
They need to be held accountable.
And then the Chi Coms with their Advisor Fauci for this Covi shit storm.
Why would you warn patients that it’s addictive? Warning patients wouldn’t help that, and why would doctors care? The modern Doctor’s job is to get you out of the room.
I’m not sure that’s any different than antique doctors.
sounds like the judge is of the same mentality that drove the purges of National Socialism & Communism … damn the Jews!, damn the whole Kulak! it’s for the ‘greater good!’
I understand that these drugs were very detrimental … but, weren’t they ok’ed by the FDA? what did the CDC say? (besides nothing)
maybe we are the ones that are at fault for trusting the government … a government that only cares about their portfolios … definitely not our wellbeing
(wonder how many congresscritters had stock in this until it went bust?)
When all is said and done, you have to put the shit into your own mouth.
Repeatedly. With full knowledge that you can’t handle it.
Guess how I know?
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Each member of the Sackler family should be put on an Oxy drip and every two hours, given a shot of Narcan.
The junkies have told me there is no more powerful pain in the world than being pulled back from the brink with Narcan
Relying on the Fed Gov’t is a more addictive pain (killer).
To be held accountable in the age of no accountability.
Families are shooting for the big bucks because they and their family members did not curtail/stop the addiction spiral that occurs with all pain killing drugs.
Did they not notice their family member’s signs of dependence? Did they not notice the pill bottle was empty 8 days into a 30 day prescription?
Accountability, BS.
Handsome MD DECEMBER 19, 2021 AT 7:45 AM
‘Each member of the Sackler family should be put on an Oxy drip and every two hours, given a shot of Narcan.
The junkies have told me there is no more powerful pain in the world than being pulled back from the brink with Narcan”
IDK, every time I participated in Narcing a patient they always reacted two ways;
1) Angry.
2) Threw up.
We only had the injectable kind then which hit pretty quick, so you were suddenly confronted with an angry, puking, fully awake junkie who’s hard-got “high” you just ended, and he is NOT grateful.
I don’t know if they found it painful or not, they were too busy trying to make it painful for ME.
But it must not be TOO bad, at least not with the modern nasal kind, because I’ve heard from people with junkies in their families since then that would rely on someone narcing them if they got bad stuff, or too much, and ended up not breathing. My friend’s son “died” numerous times and always went back for more until the last time when he was either mixing his pleasures, got too much Fentanyl in the mix, or was not found soon enough so his 10 year old son got to see his junkie mother try to revive his junkie Dad with the magic spray yet again…and failing.
But that was all with heroin, or things that were SUPPOSED to be heroin, anyway.
I’ve seen folks OD on prescribed pills too. Sometimes it was someone wanting to jump into Hell from the top of a pill bottle on purpose, more often it was an older person who lost track of their meds or mixed their meds, and occasionally it was someone who was taking someone else’s pills to get “high”, but another subset of this was folks who turned to illicit drugs because they COULDN’T get effective, doctor-managed pain medications so they either stole someone else’s and took it with directions not meant for them and having NOT been seen by a doctor to determine if they might have issues, or just went to the drug dealer and got whatever that street pharmacologist claimed would ease their pain without regard for if it would ease their pain PERMANENTLY.
Pain makes you crazy.
Pain makes you mean.
If you’re in enough pain, you will do anything, literally ANYTHING, to make it stop.
This is why effective pain medications being used in a supervised manner according to directions DO have a place, Because people WILL attempt to manage their pain with, or without, a doctor’s blessing and without regard for if the pill came from a USP factory or a barrio warren in Ciudad Juarez.
So if you deny ALL functional pain medications to people becasue they MIGHT get addicted,
You are just about guaranteeing they WILL.
To STREET “medicine”.
…if they don’t kill themselves instead.
Or maybe kill themselves TRYING to kill the pain.
…it’s not always intentional, but the results are the same.
…but maybe that’s been the plan all along…
“Pain is perfect misery, the worst of evils, and excessive, overturns all patience.”
(Nisroc to the Hell-bound, “Paradise Lost,” John Milton)
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …