This is very relevant, from the article. This is the accusation. I have seen very generic comments in this thread that don't take this information into account.
And in the end what will happen is that people that legitimately need pain killers will be told "sorry, you might get addicted, just tough it out". Not a world I want to live in.
Based on research canibis is promising http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullart... With a 25% reduction in opioid abuse by allowing patients access (not necessarily prescribing).
The people who got addicted, and the subject of the lawsuit, were prescribed opioids for long-term pain management. Of course you're going to get addicted if you take them every day for weeks or months. It's the nature of the drug, and the drug companies are being sued because the purposefully downplayed that.
If the teeth have come in enough though, they can be treated like regular extractions. They are still painful, but generally much less invasive / potentially complicated.
I am asking in good faith: I used to be prescribed cortisone, and managing the end of the treatment was a pain, I just decided to stop worrying treating my rashes altogether, because that was getting ridiculous. I am wondering if some doctors also threw the towel on that one.
Instead of getting handed opiates like they are harmless because the doctors believed the drug companies who tried to pass them off as safe for unmonitored use.
Once the prescribed regime is broken, and the psychological restraint is broken, too, there's little left to stop the usage from spiraling up, to an overdose.
Marketed: 120mg over 12 hours or 80mg over 8 hours
Reality: People that take the 120mg over 12 hours realize it only lasts 8 hours thus they are taking 40mg more than they should be on the schedule that makes sense to them to avoid pain.
Rather than taking 40mg at the end of the day, the drugs companies caution doctors to prescribe more medication initially rather than give any indication that the drug only lasts for 8 hours.
They care more about their approach to marketing, than the efficacy of the prescription schedule.
It's this that creates addicts: the extreme high of the unneeded extra initial dosage, followed by a lower low when the drug runs out.
That's incredibly stupid and illegal in all but one other country in the world.
My apologies if I was wrong. I believe I got it from the nytimes article on the topic published a few months ago.
Would you care to update Wikipedia (and cite your source)? They only list the US, NZ, and Brazil.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/sunday-review/ask-your-do... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-consumer_advertising
It's a serious problem that is killing people, and it's worth taking a shot at without being shouted down every time by someone who thinks you're trying to take their pills away.
Remember 9/11? Imagine that many people dying from a preventable tragedy every 4 weeks in the US. Because that's what happened in 2016 with opioid addiction.