It's easy to blame the Sacklers but their product is not illegal. Guns kill people, but are we demanding owners of gun manufacturing companies be imprisoned and castigated as the devil's advocate? Same with tobacco owners. Where's people howling at the grave of Doris Duke and demanding she be exhumed so she can stand trial? What about all the small time producers of marijuana and coke and other drugs which can be just as devastating in their own ways? Or producers of alcohol? About 88,000 people a year die from alcoholism.

And, of course, about 40,000 people die in car accidents in the US each year on average.

Everyone is guilty here.

Anonymous wrote:As someone who suffers from a chronic pain issue OxyContin has literally been a lifesaver (pain so bad you want to die is a thing). As someone works in addition, the way they market this drug I think they should suffer criminal penalties for their negligence.

It’s tricky. I could have easily becom addicted myself with the amount and regularity I have taken the meds (max dosage over several months) but luck of genetics, I didn’t.

Pain, true agonizing pain (the kind with cancer, of life threatening injuries) can be helped by this medication. But much tighter control needs to occur.

And these two should be in jail.

Those two are the descendants of the person who created the corporation and merely benefit from the largesse it brings in - they didn't create the drug themselves.

It'd be like locking up all of the descendants of the Smith & Wesson creators.

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Anonymous wrote:They should set up the Sackler Prize for Medical Advancement and Innovation with a $1 Billion grant from their profits.

Problem solved - just like the guy who invented dynamite set up the Nobel Prize.

The advancement should be to train physicians, physician’s assistants, and nurse practitioners to prescribe suitable medication rather than a “shut them up and make them go away” medication. Also the rating systems for hospitals should be changed. They are rated on patients reporting of pain. Sometimes pain is good because it tells how a body is healing. OxyContin masks pain so that patients report pain free hospitalization.

The Sacklers provided the solution to sloppy medical care.

Funding and donations to individual hospitals traditionally go to lining the doctors pockets.

I'd rather they set up a separate foundation which awards prizes to innovative chemists, medical researchers, and trained scientists who are thinking of solutions to the world's greatest problems - HIV/AIDS, malaria, ebola, cancer(s), the flu, Alzheimer etc.

The prize and money would also go a long way towards encouraging medical researchers to release cures rather than focus on short-term patch solutions for extending life.

Anonymous wrote:No one forced the pills down their throats.

this has to be a troll response ^^^

you better hope you never have an accident that leaves you with chronic, unbearable pain.

As someone who suffers from a chronic pain issue OxyContin has literally been a lifesaver (pain so bad you want to die is a thing). As someone works in addition, the way they market this drug I think they should suffer criminal penalties for their negligence.

It’s tricky. I could have easily becom addicted myself with the amount and regularity I have taken the meds (max dosage over several months) but luck of genetics, I didn’t.

Pain, true agonizing pain (the kind with cancer, of life threatening injuries) can be helped by this medication. But much tighter control needs to occur.

And these two should be in jail.

Anonymous wrote:They should set up the Sackler Prize for Medical Advancement and Innovation with a $1 Billion grant from their profits.

Problem solved - just like the guy who invented dynamite set up the Nobel Prize.

The advancement should be to train physicians, physician’s assistants, and nurse practitioners to prescribe suitable medication rather than a “shut them up and make them go away” medication. Also the rating systems for hospitals should be changed. They are rated on patients reporting of pain. Sometimes pain is good because it tells how a body is healing. OxyContin masks pain so that patients report pain free hospitalization.

The Sacklers provided the solution to sloppy medical care.

They should set up the Sackler Prize for Medical Advancement and Innovation with a $1 Billion grant from their profits.

Problem solved - just like the guy who invented dynamite set up the Nobel Prize.

People willingly took the stuff. I don’t even get it. Why wouldn’t we have useful painkillers. People should use them properly.

Anonymous wrote:No one forced the pills down their throats.

Is this a joke?

Are you ok with marketing cigarettes to kids to get them addicted too?

The problem with OxyContin isn’t its use to treat pain. It’s the marketing.

Old story. They are doing their best to litigate their way out of guilt.

Nice attempt by the gold digger wife to make pouty sad lips for the photo, as if she gives a crap.

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.

Everyone bears responsibility in this mess, including doctors and end users.

No one forced the pills down their throats.

Sounds like they made a real-life deal with the devil.

Exclusive: OxyContin made the Sackler family billions—but now, after 400,000 deaths, it’s made them near-pariahs. For the first time, David Sackler pleads his case.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/david-sackler-pleads-his-case-on-the-opioid-epidemic?