Who profits the most from the opioid epidemic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone hear about the Sackler billionaires?
Esquire had something about this. Can someone please post that link?

Currently? Mexican drug cartels. It is now very very hard to get opioids from doctors and pharmacies. Most all of it now are street drugs.

Mexico is right. The border should get closed for 30 days until we get a grip on this. 72,000 dead Americans every year.

[Anonymous]

Here in Canada, we've had our first medical aid in dying for osteoporosis. So the "final solution" to chronic pain. The victims are the untreated pain patients with zero quality of life. My elderly neighbour with Parkinson's pain, osteoporosis and COPD has constant pain. The doctors just ignore him. Giving him one pain pill a day to let him sleep would be a blessing but nobody cares whether he can't do a thing and is basically living a life with zero quality.

[Anonymous]

ProPublica has published a deposition of Richard Sackler that Purdue Pharma has tried to keep sealed for years.

https://www.propublica.org/article/richard-sackler-oxycontin-oxycodone-strength-conceal-from-doctors-sealed-testimony

“During the deposition, Sackler was confronted with his email exchanges with company executives about Purdue’s decision not to correct the misperception among many doctors that OxyContin was weaker than morphine. The company viewed this as good news because the softer image of the drug was helping drive sales in the lucrative market for treating conditions like back pain and arthritis, records produced at the deposition show.”

He said Purdue didn’t want OxyContin “to be polluted by all of the bad associations that patients and healthcare givers had with morphine.”

“Sitting here today, after all you’ve come to learn as a witness, do you believe Purdue’s conduct in marketing and promoting OxyContin in Kentucky caused any of the prescription drug addiction problems now plaguing the Commonwealth?” a lawyer for Kentucky asked.

Sackler replied, “I don’t believe so.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ProPublica has published a deposition of Richard Sackler that Purdue Pharma has tried to keep sealed for years.

https://www.propublica.org/article/richard-sackler-oxycontin-oxycodone-strength-conceal-from-doctors-sealed-testimony

“During the deposition, Sackler was confronted with his email exchanges with company executives about Purdue’s decision not to correct the misperception among many doctors that OxyContin was weaker than morphine. The company viewed this as good news because the softer image of the drug was helping drive sales in the lucrative market for treating conditions like back pain and arthritis, records produced at the deposition show.”

He said Purdue didn’t want OxyContin “to be polluted by all of the bad associations that patients and healthcare givers had with morphine.”

“Sitting here today, after all you’ve come to learn as a witness, do you believe Purdue’s conduct in marketing and promoting OxyContin in Kentucky caused any of the prescription drug addiction problems now plaguing the Commonwealth?” a lawyer for Kentucky asked.

Sackler replied, “I don’t believe so.”

That ProPublica article is a must read. Meanwhile the Sackler family is feted for its donations to the Met and Victoria and Albert Museum. Blood money made off the backs of victims of the opioid epidemic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ProPublica has published a deposition of Richard Sackler that Purdue Pharma has tried to keep sealed for years.

https://www.propublica.org/article/richard-sackler-oxycontin-oxycodone-strength-conceal-from-doctors-sealed-testimony

“During the deposition, Sackler was confronted with his email exchanges with company executives about Purdue’s decision not to correct the misperception among many doctors that OxyContin was weaker than morphine. The company viewed this as good news because the softer image of the drug was helping drive sales in the lucrative market for treating conditions like back pain and arthritis, records produced at the deposition show.”

He said Purdue didn’t want OxyContin “to be polluted by all of the bad associations that patients and healthcare givers had with morphine.”

“Sitting here today, after all you’ve come to learn as a witness, do you believe Purdue’s conduct in marketing and promoting OxyContin in Kentucky caused any of the prescription drug addiction problems now plaguing the Commonwealth?” a lawyer for Kentucky asked.

Sackler replied, “I don’t believe so.”

That ProPublica article is a must read. Meanwhile the Sackler family is feted for its donations to the Met and Victoria and Albert Museum. Blood money made off the backs of victims of the opioid epidemic.

My relative died because of this opioid push and someone on the college forum called me an anti-Semite for calling this family out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ProPublica has published a deposition of Richard Sackler that Purdue Pharma has tried to keep sealed for years.

https://www.propublica.org/article/richard-sackler-oxycontin-oxycodone-strength-conceal-from-doctors-sealed-testimony

“During the deposition, Sackler was confronted with his email exchanges with company executives about Purdue’s decision not to correct the misperception among many doctors that OxyContin was weaker than morphine. The company viewed this as good news because the softer image of the drug was helping drive sales in the lucrative market for treating conditions like back pain and arthritis, records produced at the deposition show.”

He said Purdue didn’t want OxyContin “to be polluted by all of the bad associations that patients and healthcare givers had with morphine.”

“Sitting here today, after all you’ve come to learn as a witness, do you believe Purdue’s conduct in marketing and promoting OxyContin in Kentucky caused any of the prescription drug addiction problems now plaguing the Commonwealth?” a lawyer for Kentucky asked.

Sackler replied, “I don’t believe so.”

That ProPublica article is a must read. Meanwhile the Sackler family is feted for its donations to the Met and Victoria and Albert Museum. Blood money made off the backs of victims of the opioid epidemic.

My relative died because of this opioid push and someone on the college forum called me an anti-Semite for calling this family out.

That's because the only people you were calling out in the college forum had Jewish names. Plenty of other ethnicities involved in the admissions scandal. So, yeah, not much sympathy here for the name calling flung your way.

[Anonymous]

The Sackers started it but thousands of manufacturers, doctors, pharmacists, distributors, rehab clinics and many basically invented modern-day aggressive pharma marketing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone in the know break down opioid deaths by race?

% white
% black
% hispanic
% asian

Is it equally addictive across ethnic lines?

Does China have an opioid problem? What about the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, India?

I don't have specific data but opioids in the U.S. were specifically targeted to poor white areas, first in Florida, then moving north through Appalachia and rust belt, which is also where the OD deaths are concentrated. It has increasingly impacted the black population as cheaper street drugs have replaced the pill addiction. Search opiate deaths for online maps that show this trend. The mountainous area of West Virginia was the epicenter.
China had a massive opioid addiction problem during the Victorian era. Great Britian went to war - twice - for the right to sell opium in China (see Opium wars). The results were a major factor in the communist revolution. Mao treated addiction with mass murder of addicts and dealers. Dutuerte in the Philippines is currently on a similar mission.
Central Asia has always had an opium addiction problem among the lower classes, especially in Afghanistan, Armenia and other regions that are traditional poppy growers. Note that almost none of this opium is in the US, which gets its supply primarily from Mexico, points south and, now, imported synthetic opiates from China (fentanyl, carfentanil)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone hear about the Sackler billionaires?
Esquire had something about this. Can someone please post that link?

Currently? Mexican drug cartels. It is now very very hard to get opioids from doctors and pharmacies. Most all of it now are street drugs.

Mexico is right. The border should get closed for 30 days until we get a grip on this. 72,000 dead Americans every year.

This is incorrect. Opioid prescriptions in the US still far exceed levels in 2000. We are by far the largest users, per capita. Big Pharma has a major PR campaign going to suggest that suffering patients can't obtain pain relief. This may be true for a limited few. Most chronic pain sufferers are being supplied. Many addicts have been cut off, moved on to street drugs, and many have died from fentanyl, cut into heroin, making it extremely lethal. The Washington Post currently has a good piece on the fentanyl issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone in the know break down opioid deaths by race?

% white
% black
% hispanic
% asian

Is it equally addictive across ethnic lines?

Does China have an opioid problem? What about the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, India?

I don't have specific data but opioids in the U.S. were specifically targeted to poor white areas, first in Florida, then moving north through Appalachia and rust belt, which is also where the OD deaths are concentrated. It has increasingly impacted the black population as cheaper street drugs have replaced the pill addiction. Search opiate deaths for online maps that show this trend. The mountainous area of West Virginia was the epicenter.
China had a massive opioid addiction problem during the Victorian era. Great Britian went to war - twice - for the right to sell opium in China (see Opium wars). The results were a major factor in the communist revolution. Mao treated addiction with mass murder of addicts and dealers. Dutuerte in the Philippines is currently on a similar mission.
Central Asia has always had an opium addiction problem among the lower classes, especially in Afghanistan, Armenia and other regions that are traditional poppy growers. Note that almost none of this opium is in the US, which gets its supply primarily from Mexico, points south and, now, imported synthetic opiates from China (fentanyl, carfentanil)

Florida=Lots of older people with age related aches and pain

West Virginia=Lots of chronic pain from working in coal miens

Maine=Lots of chronic pain from working in the lumber industry

From a marketing perspective, it made good business sense to target areas like these. Obviously, not endorsing it from a moral perspective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ProPublica has published a deposition of Richard Sackler that Purdue Pharma has tried to keep sealed for years.

https://www.propublica.org/article/richard-sackler-oxycontin-oxycodone-strength-conceal-from-doctors-sealed-testimony

“During the deposition, Sackler was confronted with his email exchanges with company executives about Purdue’s decision not to correct the misperception among many doctors that OxyContin was weaker than morphine. The company viewed this as good news because the softer image of the drug was helping drive sales in the lucrative market for treating conditions like back pain and arthritis, records produced at the deposition show.”

He said Purdue didn’t want OxyContin “to be polluted by all of the bad associations that patients and healthcare givers had with morphine.”

“Sitting here today, after all you’ve come to learn as a witness, do you believe Purdue’s conduct in marketing and promoting OxyContin in Kentucky caused any of the prescription drug addiction problems now plaguing the Commonwealth?” a lawyer for Kentucky asked.

Sackler replied, “I don’t believe so.”

That ProPublica article is a must read. Meanwhile the Sackler family is feted for its donations to the Met and Victoria and Albert Museum. Blood money made off the backs of victims of the opioid epidemic.

My relative died because of this opioid push and someone on the college forum called me an anti-Semite for calling this family out.

That's because the only people you were calling out in the college forum had Jewish names. Plenty of other ethnicities involved in the admissions scandal. So, yeah, not much sympathy here for the name calling flung your way.

The only name I mentioned was Madoff which was a good comparison to the college scandal. I brought up the all the other industries we have seen corruption in recently. I didn’t mention any names. You can’t defend these people by slandering others.

[Anonymous]

The Sacklers were con artists that took a drug that had caused addiction and death for thousands of years (history of Opium) and tinkered with it to repackage it into a new pill. They pushed it as non addictive when it fact it was even more so. They made billions and donate their dirty money to places like Harvard and Columbia. They killed so many people yet are protected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Sacklers were con artists that took a drug that had caused addiction and death for thousands of years (history of Opium) and tinkered with it to repackage it into a new pill. They pushed it as non addictive when it fact it was even more so. They made billions and donate their dirty money to places like Harvard and Columbia. They killed so many people yet are protected.

+1,000,000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone hear about the Sackler billionaires?
Esquire had something about this. Can someone please post that link?

Currently? Mexican drug cartels. It is now very very hard to get opioids from doctors and pharmacies. Most all of it now are street drugs.

Mexico is right. The border should get closed for 30 days until we get a grip on this. 72,000 dead Americans every year.

Yea, but it impossible to close the border. It is still coming in through major ports of entry. Lots and lots of fentanyl coming via USPS to peoples door step from china.

[Anonymous]

The Smithsonian benefited immensely from the Sacklers and love going to the museum.