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Originally Posted by hawkeye2009
I am a physician. I'm sure this was not a planned conspiracy to get a cohort of the population addicted, then treat them.
Physicians sincerely believed that prescribing opioids was the right thing to do. Now they know better.
I am giving a talk on that very subject at a large work comp meeting next month. The opioid epidemic was altruism gone wrong, fueled by the pharmaceutical industry and the media claiming pain was a "vital sign" and that pain was under treated in America.
Suboxone is no panacea, although the efficacy of such programs is about 30%, which is pretty good.
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So, doctors believed it was the right thing to do initially...Now, they say they were wrong about that...How do we know they are right this time, if they were so wrong in the past? LOL
People make such a big deal about the pharma companies lying and misleading people, doctors, etc on the addiction potential of these drugs and trying to sell as many as possible, but the tobacco companies did the EXACT same thing, heck, they even had some doctors who tried to say smoking certain brands of cigarettes, was more healthy!! NO ONE suggested for restricting access to cigarettes as a result though, big tobacco has paid some big fines, but ultimately, anyone 18+ can walk into almost any store and buy as much as they like, (its 2019 and cigarettes are still sold in drug stores for gods sake!).
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