Opioid crisis

[Ocean Breeze]

Little-known makers of generic drugs played central role in opioid crisis, newly unsealed records show

Drugmaker Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, have long borne the brunt of criticism for inventing and deceptively marketing the painkiller OxyContin in the 1990s. But court records made public in recent days thrust a spotlight on a handful of obscure drug manufacturers that by 2006 �� as the death rate was still accelerating �� were selling the bulk of opioid pills flooding the country.

source: WAPO

 

[Walter]

Most coming from China.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Most coming from China.

Walter, you should be pumping this as the WORST THING EVER, considering most of it happened during the Obama administration.

I understand that Fox hasn't focussed on this, but you could at least pretend you have some independent neurological function.

 

[MHz]

Walter, you should be pumping this as the WORST THING EVER, considering most of it happened during the Obama administration.

I understand that Fox hasn't focussed on this, but you could at least pretend you have some independent neurological function.

Any idea where Afghanistan is or what their main product is that the West insists they grow. Why do you think they were the target after 9/11. The Vietnam War saw to get the Golden triangle.

300,000 hectors and rising in-spite of the war on drugs that costs taxpayers more than $1T

Any questions about how long it will be before 'the war against drugs' is over, lol.

 

[MHz]

Most coming from China.

Liar.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Take your pills.

 

[Jinentonix]

Blame the damn doctors who kept handing them out like candies. I don't give a shit what anyone says about opioids/opiates, oxys (and morphine) were a godsend after my plane crash. Oxys still are. Fortunately the side-effects suck so bad and I need to take them so infrequently that addiction is NOT a factor for me.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Blame the damn doctors who kept handing them out like candies. I don't give a shit what anyone says about opioids/opiates, oxys (and morphine) were a godsend after my plane crash. Oxys still are. Fortunately the side-effects suck so bad and I need to take them so infrequently that addiction is NOT a factor for me.

Not Obama?

 

[Danbones]

Take your pills.

What? The ones you just spilt on the carpet?

Pick 'em up your self, ya lazy bastid. Use your socks, just pull their strings.

 

[Danbones]

Blame the damn doctors who kept handing them out like candies. I don't give a shit what anyone says about opioids/opiates, oxys (and morphine) were a godsend after my plane crash. Oxys still are. Fortunately the side-effects suck so bad and I need to take them so infrequently that addiction is NOT a factor for me.

The doctors were"misled" by the manufacturer's fake studies.

Just like they always are, Look at statins, for example ( 3 million people, NO CHANGE IN MORTALITY, BILLIONS MADE), and people who trust them don't have the parts to look at the facts and decide what to do to solve medical problems themselves.

That IS the height of stupidity.


Origins of an Epidemic: Purdue Pharma Knew Its Opioids Were Widely Abused

A confidential Justice Department report found the company was aware early on that OxyContin was being crushed and snorted for its powerful narcotic, but continued to promote it as less addictive.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/health/purdue-opioids-oxycontin.html

Oxycontin Maker Selling Opioid Addiction Drug Too

Monday, Sept. 10, 2018 -- Purdue Pharma, the maker of Oxycontin who some have blamed for the epidemic of opioid painkiller addictions, has patented a medicine aimed at curbing those disorders.
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health...ontin-maker-selling-opioid-addiction-drug-too

One pill makes you taller, one pill makes you smaller.

The costs of heroin and naloxone: a tragic snapshot of the opioid crisis
https://www.statnews.com/2018/11/08/costs-heroin-naloxone-tragic-snapshot-opioid-crisis/

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Drug companies seek removal of judge in landmark opioid case

Lawyers for nearly two dozen drug companies facing more than 2,000 lawsuits over their alleged roles in the opioid epidemic are demanding removal of the federal judge overseeing the case. The request comes after a series of stinging rulings against the drug industry by U.S. District Judge Dan Polster in the leadup to a trial slated to begin Oct. 21.

source: WAPO

 

[Cliffy]

Blame the invasion of Afghanistan for the resurrection of the opium industry in that country, which is the main reason the Yankees invaded in the first place. The Taliban outlawed the growing of opium poppies and the drug cartels got upset and ordered an invasion. Anybody who thinks that the invasion had anything to do with 911 or Bin laden or school girls getting acid thrown in their faces is a fool.

 

[Hoid]

the downside to opioids is probably the 25 million deaths per year

 

[Cliffy]

the downside to opioids is probably the 25 million deaths per year

The ruling elite and their minions think that is the upside.

 

[Hoid]

it is actually a calculated cost

they want this judge removed because he has said from the beginning that he wants to settle all 2,300 cases rather than take them through long expensive and endlessly delayed and appealed trials.

So he is throwing their whole balance sheet out of whack.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

The ruling elite and their minions think that is the upside.

The "ruling" elite or the one per centers......are not excerpt form Opioid abuse , accidental suicides etc.

 

[Cliffy]

The "ruling" elite or the one per centers......are not excerpt form Opioid abuse , accidental suicides etc.

Collateral damage is a small price to pay for billions in profits.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Collateral damage is a small price to pay for billions in profits.

true enough.

 

[Danbones]

Good thing trump got the Epstein and his CORPORATE healthcare blackmail operation that makes all this possible by corrupting all the people you support and vote for arrested and or shut down.

...and of course, a bunch of Hoid, yorgie, and cliffy's child renting buddies going to jail.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Purdue Pharma, drugmaker accused of fueling the opioid epidemic, files for bankruptcy

Purdue Pharma, the narcotics manufacturer blamed for triggering America��s opioid crisis through its aggressive marketing of the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin, filed for bankruptcy Sunday.
The company��s move to seek financial shelter, part of a tentative settlement with thousands of litigants, will shift the focus to new wrangling over how potential proceeds will be divvied up by communities reeling from addictions and overdose deaths. Some state attorneys general say they will also continue trying to recover billions of dollars from the Sackler family, owners of Purdue.
Purdue sold only a fraction of the billions of opioid pills distributed in the United States, but it pioneered the aggressive sales tactics that fueled addiction.

source: WAPO