Dopesick on Hulu

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For posters asking about a what to watch next, I'd recommend two more miniseries based on real events on Hulu:

The Dropout, about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. Similar story of corporate malfeasance and the reporters/regulators trying to stop it.

The Looming Tower, about John O'Neill and Ali Soufan of the NY FBI Field Office attempting (but not succeeding in time) to put the pieces together of the 9/11 plot.

Both are very compelling dramas based on terrific books about these events.

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You all are mad. Watched Dopesick and it doesn't even scratch the surface. You really all gotta read Pharma by Gerald Posner. Posner did an INSANE level.of research and discovered never before known links between the sacklers and all sorts of advertising/shady hidden businesses. Dopesick only scratches the surface. It is far worse after you read the book. Pharma once even wire tapped members of Congress in order to gain a leg up on them during testimonies. The sacklers had their hands in everything and even once controlled something like 40% of the entire funding of the AMA. You can't really understand Purdue Pharma and the opioid epidemic until you really understand how purdue came into power with so much money in the first place. The sacklers actually acquired their power and wealth mostly through advertising, which you only learn by following Arthur Sackler. It is all covered in the book:

https://www.amazon.com/Pharma-Greed-Lies-Poisoning-America/dp/1501151894

Empire of Pain gets into this too, Arthur's marketing schemes and hiding the family ownership. Also the insane Tontine scheme they used to cut the one family member out of all profits but then invalidated once it was family only. https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Pain-History-Sackler-Dynasty/dp/0385545681/ref=asc_df_0385545681/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=509436355622&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1886587280279615173&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9061285&hvtargid=pla-1160104828315&psc=1

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Anonymous wrote:It’s infuriating and infuriating Oxy has not been pulled from approval.

As someone who just had surgery - I’m awful glad it is available and equally cautious about my usage but man does it work.

Other things worked too

And they were also addictive and have side effects. Pain is real and should be treated - the drug isn’t bad, the application and sale of it is.

Really, you can’t treat your pain with morphine? Which is less addictive than oxy.

Or Vicodin/Percocet, which is all I’ve ever been prescribed after surgeries. What kind of surgery are you recovering from PP?

Bone

Same, I had multiple bone surgeries and needed Oxy. Nothing else helped. I was so scared of getting addicted, but also was told to take them on schedule (not to try and wait until the pain increased). When I took them, I found they gave me a warm, fuzzy feeling and dulled the pain a lot. But I never felt "high" or anything, and I never craved more. I stopped when my pain was diminished and disposed of half the remaining bottle. No idea why some get addicted and others don't.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s infuriating and infuriating Oxy has not been pulled from approval.

As someone who just had surgery - I’m awful glad it is available and equally cautious about my usage but man does it work.

Other things worked too

And they were also addictive and have side effects. Pain is real and should be treated - the drug isn’t bad, the application and sale of it is.

I just finished reading Empire of Pain and wanted to see if there was a thread. Do you know that Purdue has known for decades that the drug is not effective as labeled? They did not do prior studies, shoved it through the FDA with complicit officials, and never did large trials. The dosing was one pill every 12 hours, but they started getting reports that the efficacy was off that it only lasted 8 hours, causing people to feel pain and start abusing it. Also, 20% of doctors were writing dx's that were against labeling because of its failures. So, unless they have changed the formulation since the reporting in this book, they were continuing to heavily push a drug that they knew had problems. They marketed it as safe, when they knew it wasn't. They also hid the strength of it (something like 9x stronger than vicodin) and it has been found over and over again that their marketing/sales was one big lie from the beginning. They knew it was being abused and did nothing but push harder on the marketing/sales.