> a slow acting opioid (it had to be crushed to be fast acting)
You seem to just skip over that point in a bit of a blasé fashion, as if OxyContin's slow release formulation is somehow a defense of the Sacklers' behavior, when the exact opposite is true.
That is, a primary argument is that Purdue pushed OxyContin because they argued it was safer due to its slow release formula. Except they knew full well that "slow release" was pretty much bullshit because people were getting addicted by simply crushing the pills.
Purdue sales people deliberately pushed Oxy with the false promise of additional safety even though they knew this wasn't true.
It's much worse than that. In order to protect the big selling point (10hrs between doses, once per nursing shift) they encouraged larger doses which were more likely to cause addiction instead of more frequent doses which were actually appropriate.
You seem to just skip over that point in a bit of a blasé fashion, as if OxyContin's slow release formulation is somehow a defense of the Sacklers' behavior, when the exact opposite is true.
That is, a primary argument is that Purdue pushed OxyContin because they argued it was safer due to its slow release formula. Except they knew full well that "slow release" was pretty much bullshit because people were getting addicted by simply crushing the pills.
Purdue sales people deliberately pushed Oxy with the false promise of additional safety even though they knew this wasn't true.