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Who is the family most responsible for killings thousands of Americans with opioids? - meet the Sacklers...
the secretive Sackler family, owners of the company that invented OxyContin, downplayed the risks of addiction and exploited doctors’ confusion over the drug’s strength.
The opioid crisis killed 64,000 Americans in 2016. Meanwhile, photographer Nan Goldin, who is a recovered opioid addict, and a group of her fellow artists and activists have launched a campaign shaming the secretive Sackler family, which owns Purdue Pharma, over their profiting off the opioid crisis. “I don’t know how they live with themselves,” she said recently.
Understanding the Opioid Epidemic combines stories of people and communities impacted by this epidemic along with information from experts and those at the frontlines of dealing with the epidemic. The program traces the history of how the nation got into this situation and provides possible solutions and directions for dealing with the crisis.
Big Pharma makes drugs for 'lifestyle diseases.' Health problems that would disappear if people stopped eating crap, pushed themselves away from the table and went for long walks -- a good start. Most are too lazy and would rather take a pill. Then maybe drug companies would spend money developing drugs for real diseases that have been ignored and for which no lifestyle changes would be effective.
A lot of things are addictive; food, alcohol, sex, fill in the blank. Opioids help people who are in chronic pain function and be productive so thank you to those who invented it and sorry you and others are being scapegoated because some chose to use this drug irresponsibly.
MD's typically don't explore other ways, alternatives, of initially treating pain. Biofeedback, acupuncture, massage, ultrasound, rigorous PT, heat, cold, non addictive meds. These things have to be used first and aggressively at the beginning. It's easy for an MD to give a pill. I really think the medical professionals should have educated themselves better before prescribing so foolhardily.
Same things w/ Antibiotics, hence, the MRSA resistant strains of bacteria than can outsmart the antibiotics. And, in the 70's and 80's prescribing them for every cold, sore throat, etc.
KramerCat, I'll add an in-depth article from last year, too.
The Family That Built an Empire of Pain
The Sackler dynasty’s ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars—and millions of addicts
By Patrick Radden Keefe
During the sixties, Arthur got rich marketing the tranquillizers Librium and Valium. One Librium ad depicted a young woman carrying an armload of books, and suggested that even the quotidian anxiety a college freshman feels upon leaving home might be best handled with tranquillizers. Such students “may be afflicted by a sense of lost identity,” the copy read, adding that university life presented “a whole new world . . . of anxiety.” The ad ran in a medical journal. Sackler promoted Valium for such a wide range of uses that, in 1965, a physician writing in the journal Psychosomatics asked, “When do we not use this drug?” One campaign encouraged doctors to prescribe Valium to people with no psychiatric symptoms whatsoever: “For this kind of patient—with no demonstrable pathology—consider the usefulness of Valium.” Roche, the maker of Valium, had conducted no studies of its addictive potential. Win Gerson, who worked with Sackler at the agency, told the journalist Sam Quinones years later that the Valium campaign was a great success, in part because the drug was so effective. “It kind of made junkies of people, but that drug worked,” Gerson said. By 1973, American doctors were writing more than a hundred million tranquillizer prescriptions a year, and countless patients became hooked. The Senate held hearings on what Edward Kennedy called “a nightmare of dependence and addiction.”
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