So a company is being blamed for the country’s opioid problem. Am I missing something.
why isn’t McDonald’s being blamed for all the fat people and obesity related issues.
i missed the part where they paid dr to write more. Shouldn’t all the dr be at fault too.
I will give an anecdote:
At the turn of the century, my brother was a professional hockey player. In 2001 he dislocated and tore his shoulder. He was prescribed opioids by the team doctor.
In 2002, he dislocated his shoulder again with a complete tearing of the socket. He had 3 major surgeries. He was immobilized for almost a year. Again he was prescribed opioids. During his recovery, he dislocated again. He was prescribed opioids. By the time he recovered, his career was over, he had chronic pain and was on opioids. The doctor stopped prescribing without any form of withdrawal plan. By 2006 it turned out that my brother had been horribly addicted and was sourcing opioids on the street. My mother, a nurse, took 60 days off work to detox my brother, who lost 70 lbs from withdrawal syndrome. He had DTs, night sweats, nighmares, insomnia, incontinence, chronic nausea, gastritis, a tremor in his hands, tinnitus and other symptoms.
My brother listened to his doctors, who gave him a powerful and lethal addictive drug without any type of cessation guidelines, left to figure it out himself.
Further, Purdue WILLINGLY SUPPRESSED multitude of evidence regarding both the addictive properties of Oxy and its limited efficacy. They spent BILLIONS to hide the information, to pay ghostwriters, to bribe doctors and insurance companies.
Never once in my life do I know anybody who was prescribed a Big Mac by an expert in a time of absolute vulnerability.
One other thing, the first friend of mine that I had to bury was a pro hockey player who had a similar journey, but unlike my brother who was withdrawn by our mother, my friend died with a needle in his arm in his parents' bathroom while recovering from a debilitating injury. His journey once again started with a doctor giving him a non-addictive opioid called Oxycontin.
So fuck the personal responsibility. How many clinical trials or meta studies have you ever read regarding pharmaceuticals? Likely closer to zero than to ten. I read them due to my subject matter expertise regarding psychotropics, which are on aggregate highly dangerous and do more harm than good. But, we still prescribe SSRIs, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, stimulants and sedatives because of guild and government ignorance and corruption and people take them because they trust their doctors and regulators and people should BE ABLE TO TRUST THEIR FUCKING DOCTORS AND THEIR DRUG REGULATORS BECAUSE THEY ARE THE EXPERTS.
Fucking people.