It's kind of like if Ford got sued out of existence for every traffic death, but every other manufacturer got to keep making cars.
The Sacker family leadership was behind the fraudulent claim that Oxycontin was a non-addictive opioid that was suitable for the treatment of everyday pain.
They should be stripped of their ill gotten opioid gains.
Slacker family should be in jail for lying to the FDA about how their product was not addictive and for all the deaths they assisted with.
That is because the street dealer did not grounded a company. Companies get away with a lot of crimes in US, compared to individuals. See DuPont for examples.
Prosecuted for selling illegal substances yeah. But that’s different.
[1] https://www.npr.org/2017/06/17/533327584/the-controversy-ove... [2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fentanyl-deaths-homicde-charger... [3] https://theappeal.org/the-lab/explainers/charging-dealers-wi...
Be as weird and unique as you want, as long as it’s an ‘ok’ kind of weird and unique and you’ve filled out the right forms and gotten the correct insurance first.
Or if you’re homeless, do whatever.
> The Sacklers strip-mined Purdue to avoid billions in settlement
https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/going-straight-to-top-ar...
So was the FDA.
https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/wp-content/uploads/20...
The FDA clearly did not have adequate internal controls but I think equating the two is misleading since their failure was in not detecting fraud rather than perpetrating it.
https://www.spokesman.com/blogs/autos/2008/oct/17/pinto-memo...
As in, they knew it was a problem, but decided it'd be cheaper to deal with repercussions instead of fixing it.
https://medium.com/@GallowayJefcoat/tyler-durden-was-right-a...
The whole point is that Purdue recklessly lied about the effectiveness of Oxycontin and the duration of action, leading people to seek out street drugs when they had breakthrough pain, and doubled down by saying "just prescribe more oxy" when it became obvious that it only lasted 8 hours, not 12, because all of their profits were based on a 12 hour extended duration of effect. Even if taken as prescribed, they were basically selling a recipe for a heroin OD. They're responsible for a lot more than 27 deaths.
They will give you an addiction if used as prescribed. Purdue knew that their 12 hour interval doesn’t work but they still sold it as such.
I counted one erroneous steering override every 20 miles on mine until I disabled the feature deep in the car settings menu. (Turning off lane keeping wasn’t enough - the car still overrides steering in “emergencies” by default. It still seems to override sometimes, but it hasn’t done anything dangerous recently).
I talked to people with vehicles that have similar capabilities, all under five years old.
Other than the rivian and tesla owners, every person I talked to experienced similar problems.
(Pre-edit: Why would we make a highly effective class of severe painkillers illegal because of one bad actor?)
Considering both Heroin and Oxy were such big issues because the pharmaceutical companies pretended their formulations were less addictive when that was not only not the case, but they were worse, I guess what we should be banning is anything that isn’t uncut opium eh?
It should not even to be said, but pain fucking sucks, and no one should wish it to anyone. Being "addicted" to opioids for pain (or depression & anxiety) is not good, but in the same vain that it is not good to be healthy for you to take NSAIDs on a daily basis, but that is just life for you.
Sure, I am all up for a physically harmless, non-addictive alternative, but until then, let people who have chronic pain (or acute pain, does not matter) decide.
I’m not saying opiates are ‘bad’. I’m saying they are powerful. And seductive.
And that IMO the worst part of the Oxy crisis (and heroin before that) isn’t that it was an opiate. It was that the manufacturer got to lie about how it was less addictive, when it actually was more addictive. And that meant people were less cautious, and it caused more damage.
The same thing that makes opiates powerful is the same thing that makes them dangerous. And destructive.
How did that even happen in the first place? Something seems missing: history of substance abuse, suicide, etc.
> And that IMO the worst part of the Oxy crisis (and heroin before that) isn’t that it was an opiate. It was that the manufacturer got to lie about how it was less addictive, when it actually was more addictive. And that meant people were less cautious, and it caused more damage.
I agree, I am in favor of harm reduction techniques and regulations instead of an outright prohibition, etc.
> The same thing that makes opiates powerful is the same thing that makes them dangerous. And destructive
In all fairness, opiates never caused euphoria in me (yes, real opioids neither). They do help with depression and anxiety, along with some of my symptoms of MS.
Oftentimes opiates are (not exactly the substance itself) an issue because we do not know the purity. You can only do so much for someone, but it has definitely been an on-going issue (fentanyl laced anything is a major issue).
Old people are in pain too, and sometimes that spirals out of control just like anyone else.
I know, what I'm trying to say is that we should not deprive them of the options to reduce their pain because some self-destructive junkie (who probably has their own issues) decided to kill themselves.
I have a family member going through cancer. This type causes extreme pain. The doctors recommended a Tylenol course first, because they were afraid he was just drug seeking.
So he sat in misery for two months before we finally had a good doctor prescribe appropriate opioid medication. Now he can focus enough to eat and walk instead of just being in pain.
It's almost like there should be a nuanced view of problems.