Originally Posted by
MoAlpha
In fairness, I think the poster is referring to the campaign by Purdue Pharma and others to portray the data on oxycontin and other high-potency opioids as showing that the addictive potential was low in patients with significant pain. This was a deliberate misrepresentation and is the subject of criminal prosecution.
I was just out of a neurology residency at the time that this began and there was a big cultural shift in US clinics in favor of treating pain hyper-aggressively with narcotics, pain as the "fifth vital sign," and similar stuff, not all of it bad. In retrospect, quite a bit of this appears to have been commercially driven, but bull**** wasn't science then or now.
i wonder, to who?? lol.
i hope they prosecute this to "the fullest extent of the law", if you know what i mean...
they knew goddamn well what would happen with that chemical.
it was the same with heroin, heroin was "invented" because people got hooked on morphine, to "take them out of the morphine addiction". and we kinda all know how that one played out... (irony face here)
same type of people pulling the strings now once again.