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Originally Posted by ficke
Addicts hurt a lot more people than themselves, one of the many ways is people who really need pain medication and now can not get it.
Addicts are not victims, until they own up to it and take responsibility for their choices they will not get better.
No one made an addict start, they made that choice.
No one can make an addict stop, they have to make that choice.
To say other wise does a disservice to the addicts and every one around them and enables addicts to maintain their self destructive path and continue to hurt themselves and others.
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All great and dandy, except the patients (
not addicts yet), doctors and medical community/staff were not properly notified of just how quickly addictive some of these medications are.
For example:
MAY 10, 2007
In Guilty Plea, OxyContin Maker to Pay $600 Million
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/business/11drug-web.html?module=inline
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ABINGDON, Va., May 10 — The company that makes the narcotic painkiller OxyContin and three current and former executives pleaded guilty today in federal court here to criminal charges that they misled regulators, doctors and patients about the drug’s risk of addiction and its potential to be abused.
To resolve criminal and civil charges related to the drug’s “misbranding,” the parent of Purdue Pharma, the company that markets OxyContin, agreed to pay some $600 million in fines and other payments, one of the largest amounts ever paid by a drug company in such a case.
Also, in a rare move, three executives of Purdue Pharma, including its president and its top lawyer, pleaded guilty today as individuals to misbranding, a criminal violation. They agreed to pay a total of $34.5 million in fines.............
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And these settlements as large and as quickly resolved as they appear to be on the surface, are not always what they are cracked up to be.
Opinion
Opioid Makers Are the Big Winners in Lawsuit Settlements
State and local governments are giving up opportunities to hold the drug industry accountable for Americans’ overdose deaths.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/opinion/opioids-lawsuits-purdue-pharma.html
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Repeatedly, they ended lawsuits quickly for the sake of political and financial expediency rather than digging out information that would have alerted the public to the dangers of these drugs.
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