Thank the Sackler family, who are currently trying to shield their blood money by exploiting the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy. Private profits, public harm.
The problem now is that they stopped prescribing opiates for people go need them. Now, the suicide rate has increased for those with Chronic Pain issues. Many places stopped giving Pain medication after major surgeries.
They were giving Ocycontin for minor muscle pain, because regular doctors were told that it had no abuse risk. Now, they assume everyone has the predisposition for opioid addiction, when it’s only 5% of the population or so.
As a person who needs pain meds daily just to function, I miss the days when doctors were able to focus on doctring instead of withholding treatment because the DEA wants to arrest doctors. Over 20 years I’ve been on opiates and when I get a prescription canceled, or need to change meds, I stop them and after 3 days I’m clean again.
It’s not that big of a deal when you don’t get high from regular dosages. I never moved to the black market, I usually just suffer and complain to my doctor politely when I can’t get out of bed and bathe myself because they stop my medications.
Many other people choose Suicide be abuse constant 24/7 pain takes a heavy toll on your psyche.
Yes, but think of all the profits.
I was fucking lucky. I was 13-14. Went through some traumatic medical shit. Got big ass prescriptions of oxycotin after leaving the hospital. Used them as scheduled, one particularly rough day I doubled it.
Nothing has felt nearly as good since, ever. It wasn’t even helpful with the pain. After my script ran out, I was just ready to get back to school, and somehow never started to try and get more.
If it happened as an adult? Fuck, I would have been a junkie so fast. When I was 13-14 I didn’t have the same stress levels as now. These companies were cruel and don’t deserve to exist. The people involved aren’t jailed because wealth.
The fact that you learned this today is part of the problem
Well, most people in the world are not really quite that interested in what’s happening in the US, it’d be quite easy to miss something that doesn’t really have any repercussions abroad, like the opioid crisis.
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The doctors were lied to, too; specifically about how long OxyContin is effective. Doctors aren’t wizards; they’re trained workers. If they’re given bad training, they reliably generate bad work.
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I think things aren’t usually so black and white. You’ve pointed to one example of a gray area. There are many like it.
