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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work with addicts, it’s hard to look at this picture knowing the lives they have ruined and made billions. They knew, they knew it was more addictive and didnt warn anyone. F them. [/quote]

from the article Kingpins:OxyContin, Heroin, and the Sackler-Sinaloa Connection

... With pain management now mandated by the Joint Commission, Purdue began funding groups such as the American Chronic Pain Association (ACPA) and the American Pain Society (APS). These vocal groups began demanding doctors start taking pain management seriously, bringing their message everywhere from state legislatures to medical conferences.
Organizations funded by the pharmaceutical industry were created that rated doctors based on their willingness to treat pain and encouraged many family practitioners to begin prescribing outside of their normal scope of practice. The local family doctor suddenly felt pressure to prescribe powerful narcotics he or she might not have fully understood, or else risk a scathing review from a group like the American Pain Society that could irreparably harm his or her practice.
To ensure legal protection for prescribers, pharmaceutical companies began lobbying state legislatures who, with no medical background, began passing laws protecting doctors from malpractice claims for overprescribing.
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With the Joint Commission and state legislatures having opened their doors, Purdue Pharma set its sights on the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB). According to an investigation by John Fauber of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the FSMB accepted a $100,000 donation from Purdue for “printing and distribution” of pamphlets explaining safe use and prescribing of opioid medications.
Coincidentally, while it accepted $100,000 from Purdue, [b]the FSMB began calling for doctors to be punished for not adequately treating pain.[/b]
The system was collapsed and the floodgates were opened. With the channels flowing so freely, Purdue began focusing on the last line of defense for the American public: the doctors.

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[b]OxyContin, claimed Purdue’s sales force, had less than 1% chance of addiction.
OxyContin, they claimed, didn’t produce a high when taken.
OxyContin users, they assured doctors, were in no danger of building up a tolerance to the drug, a sure sign of physical addiction.[/b]
All lies, and Purdue knew they were lies. Each one resoundingly disproven, but far too late.

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