> You’re saying “created excess demand” like the people that you’re referring to weren’t chronic pain patients.
I don’t think you know the full history of how Purdue operated. They did two things: downplay how addictive oxy was & aggressively push oxy through doctors by providing kickbacks.
Chronic pain patients were actually a much smaller portion of the eventual victims. In a lot of cases, normal people would be prescribed oxy after minor procedures and they would get hooked on it and become permanent addicts. Once hooked, doctors would continue prescribing it for far longer and create a perpetual dependency. If the true effects of oxy were made public (which were known by Purdue pharma and Sackler family), oxy would’ve been prescribed with a lot more caution. And prescription of oxy for minor pain would’ve been non existent since a lot of safer alternatives existed.
I’m sorry you have a chronic condition, but not everyone who got hooked onto oxy had chronic conditions, and nor were they junkies.
I don’t think you know the full history of how Purdue operated. They did two things: downplay how addictive oxy was & aggressively push oxy through doctors by providing kickbacks.
Chronic pain patients were actually a much smaller portion of the eventual victims. In a lot of cases, normal people would be prescribed oxy after minor procedures and they would get hooked on it and become permanent addicts. Once hooked, doctors would continue prescribing it for far longer and create a perpetual dependency. If the true effects of oxy were made public (which were known by Purdue pharma and Sackler family), oxy would’ve been prescribed with a lot more caution. And prescription of oxy for minor pain would’ve been non existent since a lot of safer alternatives existed.
I’m sorry you have a chronic condition, but not everyone who got hooked onto oxy had chronic conditions, and nor were they junkies.