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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought many of the people dying from opiod deaths were taking it and their pain wasn't that severe. [b]Their doctors prescribed it to them anyway and they became addicted.[/b] I just can't solely blame the Sackler family for this.[/quote]

A person has pain, minor or major, and the doctor gives them an opioid prescription.  The person trusts the doctor, takes the pain med, becomes addicted.

The person didn't know how addictive the opioid was.  The doctor didn't know how addictive the opioid was.  The Sackler family knew how addictive the opioid was.  Who is to blame?  The addict?  The doctor?

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I don’t buy the part about the doctor didn’t know how addictive they were. I feel like I have been hearing about people getting addicted to painkillers for quite some time now. Longer than the opioid crisis.[/quote]

Until very recently, it has been accepted medical wisdom that taking an opioid for pain isn't addictive.  That's false, but doctors thought it was true, up until the past few years.[/quote]

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