Who profits the most from the opioid epidemic?

[Anonymous]

It used to be that online forums were full of rants about physicians who were greedy assholes who just wanted to take money without relieving pain, that they didn't believe their patients reporting pain, and that they wouldn't prescribe pain meds because they were cheap and generic versions.

There were patient movements about "pain is a medical emergency."

Many doctors carry a lot of blame for this, but they were nto acting in isolation, and pharmaceutical companies were not the only pressure by any means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do people invest in Big Pharma?
...The Killing Machine.

Big Pharma= The Sackler family. They are entirely responsible.

+ 1,000,000 - Hope they all go to prison with their victims.

Or to the graveyard with all their other victims.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do people invest in Big Pharma?
...The Killing Machine.

It's not all Big Pharma. There are companies who have never sold a pain medicine but instead who invest in trying to cure cancer, better treat diabetes and help asthmatics. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. You'll be grateful for their advances when your or a loved one is diagnosed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who benefits the most? Post-surgery patients. I was sent home 40 hours after a c-section with nothing except ibuprofen so I "wouldn't get addicted."

White, UMC, mid-30's, and married, by the way. It wasn't like the OB was judging. He had just set himself up as some a8shole warrior in the war on drugs.

Which physician did that? Liar.

Huh? Doesn't sound at all implausible.

Only to people like PP who apparently love seeing others in pain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do people invest in Big Pharma?
...The Killing Machine.

It's not all Big Pharma. There are companies who have never sold a pain medicine but instead who invest in trying to cure cancer, better treat diabetes and help asthmatics. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. You'll be grateful for their advances when your or a loved one is diagnosed.

Let's be clear it is the Sackler Family (Purdue Pharma) and some generic maker companies like Teva Pharmaceutical that are being sued. They have been called "drug dealers in lab coats". The Sacklers invented nothing new to help with pain. They took an addictive drug that already caused the world many problems tinkered with it in the lab and created it in pill form and marketed it as a safer alternative which they knew was a lie. They killed people for a lot of money and donated some money of their bloody profits to museums and universities like Harvard, Yale, and Sackler School of Medicine/Tel Aviv University.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who benefits the most? Post-surgery patients. I was sent home 40 hours after a c-section with nothing except ibuprofen so I "wouldn't get addicted."

White, UMC, mid-30's, and married, by the way. It wasn't like the OB was judging. He had just set himself up as some a8shole warrior in the war on drugs.

Not sure why you think your demographic would be immune to opioid abuse? white, mid-30s, UMC, sounds about right to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who benefits the most? Post-surgery patients. I was sent home 40 hours after a c-section with nothing except ibuprofen so I "wouldn't get addicted."

White, UMC, mid-30's, and married, by the way. It wasn't like the OB was judging. He had just set himself up as some a8shole warrior in the war on drugs.

Not sure why you think your demographic would be immune to opioid abuse? white, mid-30s, UMC, sounds about right to me.

Precisely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who benefits the most? Post-surgery patients. I was sent home 40 hours after a c-section with nothing except ibuprofen so I "wouldn't get addicted."

White, UMC, mid-30's, and married, by the way. It wasn't like the OB was judging. He had just set himself up as some a8shole warrior in the war on drugs.

Not sure why you think your demographic would be immune to opioid abuse? white, mid-30s, UMC, sounds about right to me.

Precisely.

It's silly to use a television show as an example, but Grace carries loads of meds around. Frankie smokes her weed, but Grace is the alcoholic, and drug dependent. I always wonder how she gets so much access to the meds, and seemingly always has from what he children and ex-husband say on the show. I guess it's a class issue. She likely pays cash, and doesn't seem like "the type." Probably doctor shops too. I dunno. But, it's treated as comedy on the show, how much she takes the pills and drinks. Ha. Ha?

[Anonymous]

China is pumping very low cost fentanyl in the country killing 20,000 Americans in 2016.

It's a new form of warfare.

[Anonymous]

Excellent article tucked away on A4 of today's Washington Post. Big Pharma kills more Americans than anyone else.

Why doesn't The Washington Post put its "Congressional Panel probes Opioid Makers on Abuse Knowledge" on the FRONT page???

[Anonymous]

Every single opiate rx had a physicians name attached to it. The extremely addictive properties of opiates have been well known for 2000 years. Big pharma, hospitals, doctors, pharmacies, distributors, politicians were all making a killing and now rehab clinics are raking it in. The same drug is called diamorphine in the UK and is very closely controlled. For profit in the U.S. medicine is to blame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who benefits the most? Post-surgery patients. I was sent home 40 hours after a c-section with nothing except ibuprofen so I "wouldn't get addicted."

White, UMC, mid-30's, and married, by the way. It wasn't like the OB was judging. He had just set himself up as some a8shole warrior in the war on drugs.

Not sure why you think your demographic would be immune to opioid abuse? white, mid-30s, UMC, sounds about right to me.

You were sent home without opiates because they crossover to the child. Infants are extremely susceptible to opiate abuse.

[Anonymous]

Just curious: when did the opioid crisis become "news"? I can't remember hearing about it before 2016. Why did t take so long to become news?

Probably big pharma like the Sacklers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just curious: when did the opioid crisis become "news"? I can't remember hearing about it before 2016. Why did t take so long to become news?

Probably big pharma like the Sacklers

Bush and Obama administrations are benefited from it as well, that is why it was not exposed as widely as now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every single opiate rx had a physicians name attached to it. The extremely addictive properties of opiates have been well known for 2000 years. Big pharma, hospitals, doctors, pharmacies, distributors, politicians were all making a killing and now rehab clinics are raking it in. The same drug is called diamorphine in the UK and is very closely controlled. For profit in the U.S. medicine is to blame.

Patient has a choice to fill RX or not. If you made your choice, you have to live with it. You don't need a government to tell you if it is addictive or not. All that info is freely available.