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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+1 to whoever told off the "personal responsibility" jerk. The manufacturers of Oxycontin told physicians over and over that Oxy was NOT addictive because of the time release. They lied and lied and covered up evidence for years. And there were plenty of criminal physicians who were happy to prescribe tsunamis of pills for patients who had become addicted. It's a horrible, sad story and we are going to be stuck sorting out the fallout for years while people die.[/quote]

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Purdue Pharmaceutical ([b]Sanger[/b] family) is now one of richest in the world as a result of OxyContin. The company (not any member of the Sanger family) admitted to lying about its addictive properties and paid a fine that amounted to about three cents on the dollar of profit. No one went to jail but thousands are dying as a result. Drug distributors, pharmacies, hospitals and MDs have all profited mightily. The rehab outfits are now raking it in.

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The Sacklers, you mean. Every time I walk into the Mortimer Sackler wing at the Met, I spare a thought for all the people who've died from addictions that began with OxyContin.[/quote]

Not only do the Sacklers make $billions on the overprescription of Purdue Pharma painkillers, they invented the practice of patients rating their own pain on a 1-10 scale and docs being expected to eliminate it.  Big pharma should have to disgorge all profits from excess prescribing:  it's estimated that enough opiate pills are prescribed every year to give every man/woman/child in America a 30-day supply.[/quote]

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