Who profits the most from the opioid epidemic?

[Anonymous]

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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.

So MDs now have no responsibility for writing rx for addictive meds. Why even worry about medical school? Just allow patients to order what they think they need via online pharmacies?
(sarcasm).

[Anonymous]

In just Boston, 8-10 people every DAY killed by opioids.

Where are the activists?

[Anonymous]

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

Great question.

You should ask President Obama, who didn't give a damn while annual opioid-related deaths multipled by five under his watch and during his so-called healthcare reform.

[Anonymous]

Article on a particularly heinous opioid firm, Insys, which sold a fenanyl product, and hedge fund profiting therof:

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b19tkpc6xshd7z/How-Wall-Street-Abetted-an-Opioid-Disaster?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Article on a particularly heinous opioid firm, Insys, which sold a fenanyl product, and hedge fund profiting therof:

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b19tkpc6xshd7z/How-Wall-Street-Abetted-an-Opioid-Disaster?

Thank you for posting this link.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"The Drugging of Americans is Deliberate" is another excellent article. It addresses the Sackler orchestration.

Hate the Sackler name and what they've done to this country. Most prolific killers ever.

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Anonymous wrote:The opioid epidemic was based on a mistake. Have you heard of thalidomide?

Thalidomide was never approved for use because a brave woman in the FDA refused to approve it.

Opiates were approved but the use was over prescribed because pharma did not do proper education to the doctors. They lies to doctors.

Exactly. Thank you for speaking the truth.

Doctors bloody well have the education to figure these things out for themselves. Doctors have been very lazy and that has harmed many people.
Doctors (and dentists) should not need some pharma rep with a B.S. in business to explain how a drug affects people.
Pathetic.

You clearly do not know how the medical field works.

Do you? I do know that the medical industry LOVES those golfing "conferences" paid for by the Sacklers and their Big Pharma accomplices. -DP

Yes, I do. But you do know the medical industry counts on big pharma to educate them on the use and saftey of the drug. Also ...

"But the F.D.A., in an unusual step, approved a package insert for OxyContin which announced that the drug was safer than rival painkillers, because the patented delayed-absorption mechanism “is believed to reduce the abuse liability.”

Also the FDA doctor that approved Oxycotin went and worked for Purdue.


While there were some doctor's paid to robber baron for Purdue. Most doctors were uninformed because they were given false information that was published on the FDA approved insert.

Looks like evidence of collusion between our tax-funded FDA and Big Pharma, while the biggest slaughter in American history rages on. Terrorists are chump change next to Big Pharma and the FDA.

Our elected politicians have done nothing for years, while countless Americans drop. dead. every. single. day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The opioid epidemic was based on a mistake. Have you heard of thalidomide?

Thalidomide was never approved for use because a brave woman in the FDA refused to approve it.

Opiates were approved but the use was over prescribed because pharma did not do proper education to the doctors. They lies to doctors.

Exactly. Thank you for speaking the truth.

Doctors bloody well have the education to figure these things out for themselves. Doctors have been very lazy and that has harmed many people.
Doctors (and dentists) should not need some pharma rep with a B.S. in business to explain how a drug affects people.
Pathetic.

You clearly do not know how the medical field works.

Do you? I do know that the medical industry LOVES those golfing "conferences" paid for by the Sacklers and their Big Pharma accomplices. -DP

Yes, I do. But you do know the medical industry counts on big pharma to educate them on the use and saftey of the drug. Also ...

"But the F.D.A., in an unusual step, approved a package insert for OxyContin which announced that the drug was safer than rival painkillers, because the patented delayed-absorption mechanism “is believed to reduce the abuse liability.”

Also the FDA doctor that approved Oxycotin went and worked for Purdue.


While there were some doctor's paid to robber baron for Purdue. Most doctors were uninformed because they were given false information that was published on the FDA approved insert.

Looks like evidence of collusion between our tax-funded FDA and Big Pharma, while the biggest slaughter in American history rages on. Terrorists are chump change next to Big Pharma and the FDA.

Our elected politicians have done nothing for years, while countless Americans drop. dead. every. single. day.

Can one of you physicians please shed some light on this? Thank you. -sp

[Anonymous]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/09/08/the-man-who-made-billions-of-dollars-from-oxycontin-is-pushing-a-drug-to-wean-addicts-off-opioids/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/09/08/the-man-who-made-billions-of-dollars-from-oxycontin-is-pushing-a-drug-to-wean-addicts-off-opioids/

Thank you for this. The Sacklers are the absolute worst scum in America. Their museum donations don't make-up for gazillion people they've killed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/09/08/the-man-who-made-billions-of-dollars-from-oxycontin-is-pushing-a-drug-to-wean-addicts-off-opioids/

Ironically, Sackler wants to atone for getting millions addicted to opiods, by seeking further profits from getting them addicted to another, albeit milder, opioid, buprenorphine. Wait to hear drug sales people telling doctors that addicts may need to be on buprenorphine for years, even life. A virtual drug annuity.

Buprenorphine is widely available on the street and people can become addicted to it without ever having had heavier duty opioids. Also a prized score in prisons.

[Anonymous]

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?

[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?

Don't those places have secured borders? Yes, they do. Only Americans have allowed Mexicans to flood our streets with illegal drugs. And we also have allowed the Sackler Empire to destroy more American lives than anyone else.

[Anonymous]

US death rates per 100,000 from opioid overdoses 2016:

White 17.3
Black 10.5
Hispanic 6.1

Overall: 13.3

Asians are not reported in this data. There is a lot of variation by state.

For example, in New Mexico, the Hispanic death rate is 21.3, the highest in the country, but the white rate is below the national average at 15. There is not sufficient data on the black death rate. In West Virginia, the hardest hit state, the black death rate, 44.5, exceeds the white death rate, 46.5 (Hispanic NSD), while in another hard hit state, Connecticut the white rate is nearly double the national average at 30, the black death rate just above the average at 13.7, and the Hispanic death rate more than three times the average at 20.8.

DC has the highest black death rate in the country at 49.4, while the white death rate of 7.1, is considerably less than half the national white death rate. (Hispanic is NSD.) DC's overall death rate of 30 is fourth highest in the nation, after West Virginia, New Hampshire, and Ohio. Maryland and Massachusetts are close behind; both are 29.7.

https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/opioid-overdose-deaths-by-raceethnicity/?dataView=2¤tTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D

State-by-state numbers hide high death rates in cities that are not in hard hit states. The top five counties with the highest death rates are those where the major cities are Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Palm Beach, and Detroit (from highest to lowest), even though overall Pennsylvania, Florida, and Michigan have overall death rates that are just above the national overall rate.

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2018/02/15/philadelphias-drug-overdose-death-rate-among-highest-in-nation

Reliable global figures are very hard to find. Canada seems to be behind the US, Scotland likely has the highest death rate in Europe, but numbers are very unreliable for Asia and elsewhere. There are arguments the US opioid crisis is going global as seen in articles likes this one in a recent issue of Foreign Affairs:

"This public health story [the U.S. opioid crisis] is now common knowledge. Less well known is the growing risk that the epidemic will spread across the globe. Facing a backlash in the United States and Canada, drug companies are turning their attention to Asia and Europe and repeating the tactics that created the crisis in the first place. At the same time, the rise of fentanyl, a highly potent synthetic opioid, has made the outbreak even deadlier and begun to reshape the global drug market, a development with significant foreign policy implications. As a result, the world is on the cusp of a global opioid epidemic, driven by the overuse of legal painkillers and worsened by the spread of fentanyl, that could mark a public health disaster of historic proportions."

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2018-04-16/opioids-masses

[Anonymous]

^^ In West Virginia, the hardest hit state, the black death rate, 46.5, exceeds the white death rate, 44.3.