Purdue Pharma introduced the opioid painkiller OxyContin in the 1990s and promoted it aggressively as non-addictive.
United States government lawyers argued that the company’s owners, the Sacklers, knew how their medication was being abused widely, but doubled down on production – and profits. Recently a lawsuit was settled for $6bn.
Barry Meier, the author of Pain Killer (soon to be a Netflix series), started writing about the opioid epidemic 20 years ago when it was killing about 20,000 people yearly. He tells host Steve Clemons how corporate greed and government dithering have led that number to exceed 100,000 deaths last year alone.
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can’t they do a documentary instead of an interview? I don’t wanna look at two ugly old men
2CHRONICLES 7:14( read )God will change things quickly, this world is on fire with problems and its 🎉not going to get better, it will get worse unless we change as a nation and the world.
a lot of it started from LEGAL PRESCRIPTION oxycontin.
giving out huge paybacks to doctors writing prescriptions for it.
in hospital treatments for fentalyl (subsys) on insurance, because it cost the most and had highest kick back and profits.
and now you shut off the legal supply, and people reverted to illegal supply and are dying.
want to stop deaths?
CLEAN SUPPLY is the only way.
If 300 addicts die each day then good thats 300 less addicts to worry about. Im in recovery and have been sober 6 years now and if I overdosed during my addiction I wouldnt expect ppl to care cuz its my life my addiction and if I died oh well its my fault. Now that I’m sober I still feel the same way. Just like I did, people can choose to get into a suboxone or methadone program and change their life around but if they dont choose that then death is always a real possibility. There’s no need to feel sad about addicts dying just look at it as 1 less person out there to worry about. Hopefully as more ppl die others will be to scared to even start using drugs.
Your problem isn’t drugs, your problem is your narcissism. You’re much sicker than you think. It must be a sad existence wishing death on others. Your family would be better off with one less sociopath.
wow, too much empathy shown here!!
Quit cold turkey and i feel the same keep living sober don’t be another number
@angela tegos it is wut it is. Wut are u going to do about it? Keep crying when ppl die? Or just move on and live ur life? A dead addict is better than one nodding out on the corner, stealing, lying and robbing ppl to get high.
@Don Corleonè you have a point BUT it just sounds so……COLD and anti-HUMANITY (just made up a word!!).
Nobody locks up the real drug dealers.
Question: Where was all this concern when black folk were caught up in the crack epidemic?
The Opioid Epidemic is killing lots of white middle class white folk.
That’s why people, in this country,are concerned about opioids.
No, it’s not a white/black issue. It’s cause it’s legally prescribed.
Nobody gives a darn about crackheads or meth heads, black or white.
I got injured in 2008 it was pretty bad. My dr sent me home with 90 Percocet 10s before I even had my surgery. That destroyed my life for the next 12 years!!!! I ended up on fentenal and in jail
Possible but not likely. More likely started with the pills before the surgery, though they were on hand to start after. Likely kept using after need, though it has long been common knowledge to go light and end quickly lest addiction. Even more certain that the fentanyl leap was of your own doing, as 12 years for injury is not likely at all.
Geez, man up.
You’re so ridiculous trying to put your fault and stupidity over other people
I have some joint/muscle pain and have been to given pain reliever prescriptions that I tear up and throw away without ever filling them. Not going to get caught up in becoming an addict. I prefer physical therapy.
That is your choice but I was on opioid analgesics after chest wall surgery that I only used to relieve pain. I had previously been a heroin addict so was acutely aware of the dangers of dependence, but if you use them just for pain relief and reduce off them, there is zero risk of addiction. The problem only occurs when people start deceiving themselves and their treating doctors – pretending their pain is worse than it actually is because they’re really using the medication to get high instead of just to relieve pain.
Opioids are not usually the default treatment for joint or muscle pain – usually they use non-steroidal anti-inflammatories – which are not addictive. If your doctors are prescribing anti-inflammatories like Diclofenac you should be taking them, not be tearing up the prescriptions.
@emperorofpluto He explicitly referred to pain relievers.
@Ed Huber Non-steroidal anti-inflammatories _are_ pain relievers and the first line treatment for joint and muscle pain since that kind of pain is usually caused by inflammation.
If people cannot get pain medicine from the doctors, they will get them from the black market.
I remember when the USA had an absolute fit to the fact that 5000 us soldiers died every year in Vietnam. Now we have 109,000 people die of opioid overdose and not a peep from the public we should be having massive boycotts against big pharma
The Sackler family are Jewish.
Lol 💯😸
Blaming others for not having control over yourself🤦♂️
Stay away from drugs folks!
It’s hard to feel sorry or even have empathy when the information is available for all to see/hear/read.
If this was pre social media I would have empathy, but at this point people need to be held accountable.
Most will disagree with my response/opinion but I don’t care.
It’s MY opinion !
I think it’s a combination of things.
As a person personally affected by this severely, I do not blame the Sacklers. I blame the doctors that did this. The idiots that would give someone with a toothache 90 OxyContin a month with 6 refills. Like duh you didn’t think they would go through withdrawal after becoming dependent. Also the doctors at the pill mills dealing with obviously suspicious people with track marks. The sacklers should have reported the mass orders or OxyContin to the dea like they were supposed to, yes but bottom line I blame the doctors.
You can’t prescribe refills on narcotic pain medications. The Sacklers with their wealth, power and influence created a culture where not prescribing pain medication by a physician made physicians appear negligent. The pain scale was pushed and in turn adopted by CMS (Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services) as the 5th vital sign in the late 90’s where it still appears. Pain is highly subjective, but doctors who didn’t address someone’s 10/10 pain for a stubbed toe were admonished. Further, they marketed Oxycontin as non-addictive which is clearly not true and pushed marketing to patients who in turn were encouraged to request medications. They are definitely guilty.
Everyone has a share of blame. The Sacklers knew full well what they were doing. Doctors were gullible and greedy, as were pharmacies, distributors etc.
Patients have their share of blame too. The risks of opiate addiction have been generally known for well over 150 years. There were a number of patients from the start who were gaming the system and seeking pills for reasons that had nothing to do with physical pain. They would take far more than prescribed, grind up and snort pills etc.
I have no doubt it’sfar more than 100,000 deaths per year. Clearly under reported.
Very stupid statement trying to convince people thats its taking perscriptions drugs……….the ones that are dying daily are meth and fentanyl users your going to make sure they get their fix to kill their pain because you fear that they will come after you your not worried about the others that rely on medication that are honest people who are in actual chronic pain. Stop trying to feed us Lies it makes you appear no empathy for honest people
When blacks were strung out on crack they were criminalized and thrown into jail and prison. Now white people are strung out and it’s a crisis and they get high in public with no repercussions.
Double Standard 💯
American’s insatiable appetite for ‘all’ things drugs, has devastating results way beyond the user and their families, it also has negative impacts for people in other countries. Maybe it’s time to be tougher on the user…
Wealthy people never go to jail!!!
Oxycodone is the alcohol of opiates – a drug that’s socially acceptable because it’s “legal”. We live in a broken, dysfunctional society – until we resolve social problems that exacerbate isolation, alienation, depression etc., we will _never_ reduce drug abuse or deaths of despair. Drug abuse is _always_ a symptom of underlying issues. Existing policies have failed – legislation and law enforcement does nothing to reduce demand and only turns illicit drugs into profitable commodities, enriching organised crime and entrenching corruption.
Pretty sure cancer sticks kill over 1400 American a day yet cannabis is federally illegal and is grouped with heroin and other hard drugs.
The pharmaceutical industry is the problem. Synthetic opiate Methadone is just as effective a pain reliever as other opiates and has a 24 hour half life (much longer than any naturally derived opiate analgesic) and does _not_ produce the same euphoria as other opioids, but because it’s cheap and not under patent pharmaceutical companies can’t make a profit off it so it’s not marketed for pain relief – instead it’s only used to treat addicts in recovery, and (poor) patients with terminal cancer etc.
You are correct. The profit motive of the pharmaceutical companies is the key.. they are incentivized to only promote the drugs that are profitable and discourage any alternatives.
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The money does not reach the communities where the sale & death actually happens at. Poor, black communities so we care less about a lawsuit its not helping us
Oxytocin, opana, loratabs, soma, all of these were pushed in our communities
Yes 🥰
obviously none of your loved ones have suffered from this horrible disease or perhaps they did/do but know who NOT to go to for some understanding and comfort.
America is broken, it’s not a country anymore. America is bought and paid for by corporates — America is a corpocracy.
Stop lying. More than 900 people died a day before COVID-19. Do the math. See truth for yourself.
These people ARE NOT dying from prescription drugs they are dying from FENTANYL a drug whose componets come from CHINA and are made in MEXICO and transported across the border by tourist and visitors. Quit lying to get money from Purdue!
We love drugs.
Here it’s the American dream
Medication is much more responsibly prescribed in the UK. There is no way a doctor would prescribe a cancer opiod for everyday pain relief and for stronger drugs you need NHS prescriptions, not even GP prescribed. For most pain relief, over the counter drugs are absolutely fine. No need to use stronger coedine and morphine based opiods unless you’ve had an operation or suffer from organ pain (gallstones, kidney stones) or you need constant severe pain relief due to cancer or something else that has a dehabilitating effect.
The USA are so money orientated they put profit before people every time. Couple that with no NHS free meds at the point of use, no wonder people manage their pain from illegal drugs eventually – if they are cheaper than medical insured legitimate drugs. What if you can’t afford medical insurance?
We’ve been praying to the almighty dollar since Regan.
This isn’t true I am a pharmacist in the uk. And over here they prescribe tramadol and codeine based painkillers like it’s skittles.
That’s because it’s all about $$ not making people better.
I visited the states in the 90’s and I noticed the readiness to pop pills for headache (and the pills in USA they are strong) whereas where I am from one does not take pills for headaches but rather one tries a glass of water and some fresh air first. Most people don’t have any pills in their bathroom cabinet in my country.Americans just like the easy way for most things. Lack of willingness to walk or sweat for any reason, or use cutlery or eat off plates that one can wash and reuse.
Americans like things that actually work.
I agree with you, KN. One should have a good sleep or a good cry (acco to situation) while suffering from headache. I also find watching comedy films/ TV serials helps during headache.
There are far too many redundant and useless people on earth. So this sounds like a good start. Keep up the good work, idiots!
I am not responsible for anyone abusing drugs the only person to blame is that person who is abusing them, I am so tired of hearing about this epidemic if a person wants to use drugs that is their decision!! This is not the world’s problem!!!
Please mention the amount of Ill consequences from the jab and Covid virus too
It’s an ILLICIT FENTANYL CRISIS, not a prescription drug crisis. Get educated.
This same epidemic may be killing me and I’m not doing drugs. The dog cult cover may be true ( per media June 10); I’m not that at all either …..boulder, Georgia Lynn jones
To see a popular touristic street Display not One , but Four Pharmacies, Ya”ll should agree that a serious conflict of interest is really being displayed before your very eyes.
The Town planner has Cleary been paid off, to allow this to happen…
The population growth in this example, remains much the same as always… Yet more and more businesses owners close down, to make way for more drugs…
FDA overhaul
Politicians sucks because they’re corrupts and work for the wealthiest.
And all they do is meddle into other countrie’s business
Only
Tbh American work culture has a lot to do with painkiller abuse. Many Americans have a harsh work culture and conditions. For example workers at UPS, USPS, Fed Ex or Amazon, you will most likely need some sort of painkiller for working on their feet so long.
LOL. You kidding me? Ammmerriikcans don’t know the meaning of hard work. But they are the biggest crybabies on earth. You must be one of them.
That’s BS! You don’t need narcotics for working on your feet too long, There’s ibuprofen and Aleve, and paracetamol for that. The reason it’s become a huge problem is because of people doing exactly that!’ Taking it for non serious pain and getting hooked!
When money in place of THE EXISTENCE N crony capitalists become prist thi will obvious
Six billion dollars for immunity against suits? The bottom line is money rules the government, and not the other way around
Legalised drug dealers not doctor’s
And now in Canada we buy delodid made by Perdue to give out to ther people they caused to ve addicted….. very interesting…. socialized medicine can be used for profits and gain
Now, the US is insensitive to those with chronic pain. CDC Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids in 2016 which was understood to deny prescriptions where the amounts exceeded 90 me (morphine equivalents), exceptions were for cancers and palliative care. Other chronic conditions were ratcheted down systematically to the 90 me which was inadequate for rare diseases, neurological problems, accident patients.
The immediate reaction was a dramatic increase in heroin deaths. CDC did revise their guidelines to put control back in the doctor-patient relationship as of Nov. 4, 2022, but there was no promotion of the new policy so doctors continued the restrictions😢. At this moment, the age group with the highest increase in deaths is 65>. Some may think it’s accidental, but others say they have no hope, so if I make a mistake on my medication that is fatal, no one will be the wiser that I couldn’t take the pain, humiliation and frustration anymore.
What are the New guidelines for prescribing in MME, i’ve been struggling tremendously with getting adequate pain relief and i am curious as to what the New prescribing guidelines are for chronic pain patients.
@Johnny LegoQW
Thanks for asking, Johnny Lego. The CDC Guidelines for Prescribing Opiates DATED 11/4/2022 is what you are looking for on the internet. There are plenty of supporting docs from AMA and Human Rights organizations that worked with the CDC to describe their shortcomings. That document doesn’t give a new tier forRx, per se, but instead returns the responsibility for reasonableness to the prescribing doctor. It states upfront that the doctors that used the 90mme as an absolute limit misunderstood the intended usage of that number: namely, to identify a max. for where an MD starts a new patient with chronic pain. CDC does address acute and chronic pain conditions and in the new document they continue to recognize cancer pain as a free pass with no limits (a sticking point for me because CRPS is rated higher on the McGill pain scale than cancers 42 v. 36) Apparently, there are numerous pain situations, many of the rare, that need more than that starting limit of 90 mme, too many to mention individually, so CDC is empowering doctors to perform risk/benefit analysis to support higher does and/or combinations. So, your doctor may need to get comfortable with the new latitude given them by reading the latest document. CDC does have a pamphlet, written rather weakly in my opinion given what harm was unleashed by the 2016 doc., but you may have a better chance getting your MD to read a pamphlet v. the 85+ page doc. While I don’t know your situation, if you or someone you know and trust could help, doing research on your own diagnosis, or lack there oh, may help you become aware of the recommended treatments, offer ways to better articulate your pain experience, etc, so you and your MD might improve on how your pain outdoorsman-palm best be addressed.
Hope this helps! And, 🤞 best of luck. I’m so sorry you are having to deal with the pernicious monster of pain!
@Mercy Wow this was a huge help, thankyou 🙏🙏 Couldn’t of been better put! Never knew how serious pain could get until my injury several years ago that has changed my life forever. Been struggling to manage everything , i appreciate all the info!
@Mercy Was the CRPS rated above cancer more recently ? very interesting
@Johnny Lego I don’t think so. I know it’s been rated that way for at least ten years because that is when I was diagnosed. Of course, this is in the US. It may have been rated under the previous title of RSD or Causalgia.
Its interesting to me that opioids is deemed an “epidemic’ when this energy or attention was not given to crack coke was killing the minorities 🤔🤔🤔🤔
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I am 68 yrs old, take 45mg of oxys a day since 2015 and am fine
Why you take it?
If they weren’t hooked on opiates, it would be crack or ice.
I saw to day on the news they were shaming people who take painkillers for pain but now the world doesn’t bat an eye at the street drug problems like fentanyl or the millions suffering needlessly from medical neglect
Before the hospitals switched to fentanyl and it flooded the streets. People were taking meds and living long addictive lives. Now they just die quickly and usually suffer the whole time. Facts. Society has excepted the new norm of ignoring human suffering. From there there’s not further down we can go except finding pleasure init.
Bio-war against America.
The Govt knows this,so the border is open to replace the dead ones,more and more illegals are let in to coverup the situation.
But we Americans LOVE our medicine!
Fentanyl is fire though 🔥
Don’t do drugs.
Blame the drug user. How can you blame the manufacturer of the drug?
Just like in Alcoholism!
Yep! They all work together!
That is a weak news, it does not kill you! I have been taken vicodin and hydrocodon 15/325 8times a day for 13years.
In India, most people dont take pills for headache or minor pain. Those who do usually take 1 or 2 paracetamol tablets. We also use balm for joint pain. I get a good sleep. Its sleep deprivation that gives many people headache..
I’ve been taking opiate pain medication twice a day for 12 years now.
I’ve never been high. I’ve never needed to ask for a higher dose. I’ve not only never needed to ask for more but I reduced the amount I was taking after the first year. And I for sure stopped drinking any alcohol from the day I started.
So, I’m sorry, but the folks that got addicted KNEW they were taking too much and were getting high, intentionally or by willfully rationalizing their habit. And you don’t become an addict suddenly. It takes a lot of willful abuse until you just can’t stop.
They CHOSE to continue, chose to rationalize, and chose to blame everyone but themselves for becoming addicts. And at any point they could have told the doctor “I think I’m having a problem” and been able to break the cycle and still been able to manage their pain. But you have to WANT to stop.
The drug companies might have been happy to keep providing, and they should be punished for their nonsense, but the real fault lies in those that CHOSE to get high and stay high.
Your lack of compassion for those people who trusted their doctors /pharmacists and ended up addicted to the medication they were told would help them even though they probably didn’t need said drug in the first place, is coming across loud and clear, the holy than thou attitude that stigmatises the victims and not the pill pushing medical community who took the money Prudue was offering to push their product, really just shows that propaganda works, I bet when you think of drug dealers you think of the hords coming up from the southern border and not the medical community.
@Rotties Rule There hasn’t been a time in the last 40 years where the risks of taking pain meds wasn’t “loud and clear” and this message was dialed up to 11 in the last 20+ years. If a medication is giving you craps, you tell your doc and adjust your meds. If a medication is making you as jumpy and wired as a ferret on a double espresso, you tell your doc and adjust your meds. And if a medication is making you feel loopy or comfortably numb, guess what…
My deep compassion is for the thousands that suffer with incredible pain because the abuse of these medications by addicts who take no personal responsibility and those that blame the doctors and such, which has caused all responsible chronic and acute pain patients to be, at best, treated like a drug seeking addict, or at worse, denied any pain relief at all.
You want to see a interesting statistic? Look at the number of suicides of chronic pain sufferers who, in the last 20 years, have committed suicide because the daily pain became too much after being denied medication.
I still feel bad for addicts that have hit bottom, but I don’t consider them victims. But I always have 4 doses of Narcan in my truck, and 1 in my shoulder bag. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve used them over the years. These things are huge lifesavers.
Pro Tip: be ready to fight or run after giving someone narcan. Occasionally they are not happy or grateful, because while they may not know they stopped breathing, they are VERY aware they are no longer high and sometimes have strong feelings about you causing this.
And I am all for the clinics and the myriad of other support services for those that want to break the cycle. But that doesn’t mean the prescription addicts are innocent victims, anymore than the ones on the street in the middle of a nod with the needle hanging out of their arm.
Asshat doctors, street dealers, the local bar, or the convenience store with the large selection of tobacco may all be enablers for the users, but the addiction risks for each are big and loud and without ambiguity. The users themselves decided, or rationalized, their way into that gradual addiction.
@William Stearns you’re lack of science is truly commendable.
1) Opiates were never meant for long term use, because they lower your pain threshold.
2) be a big boy and just stop taking your pills. You’ll detox because it’s a physically addictive substance.
3) you’re an addict
4) in other countries if you need opiates, you’re staying in the hospital.
5) long term use of opiates causes liver disease. You’ll blow up like a balloon and drown from ammonia poisoning.
@William Stearnscouldn’t have put it better myself 👏
I’m sorry. There is good and bad in almost every situation. I am 76. I have been taking opioid pain medication since I had back surgery at age 30. I won’t go into all of my painful structural problems but let me just say that my pain medication makes life livable and bearable. I am not addicted, I don’t increase the dosage, I don’t drink alcohol and I am grateful for the pain relief. In short, I am a responsible adult with self control who makes good choices. Opiods are no different than any other drug, you have a choice whether to take it or not. Quit being a bunch of cry babies blaming someone else for your lack of self control.
Whats so great about America anyway 🤔??? Why people so hot go live there
Legal drug dealers the real criminals includeing politicians & other elites scum of society absolutely 0% accountability what kind of world we live in
The Hulu show Dopesick did a great job covering all of this…How would this Netflix show be any different? Sounds like Netflix just trying to cash in on a disgusting money grab that has killed millions 😕
How many die per year from smoking?????
Alcoholism?????
I’m sorry, you’re presenting the opioid epidemic, Purdue pharma and the Sacklers as ‘news’? What’s the next shocker…. man invents flying machine?
300 Americans per day is nothing, but it is so difficult to get a doctor to prescribe opiates to anyone in the US now, I don’t believe even 300 are dying from prescribed opioids. Street drugs with fentanyl sure but those numbers would be far greater than 300/day. I do not believe this story. If you had any idea how hard it is to get opiates from a doctor, even pain management doctors in the US in 2023, you wouldn’t believe this either.
The whole family should be incarcerated all the rest that should be seized immediately!! Mass murder for profit.
I’m not so sure that oxy is as much of a problem as Chinese fentanyl. It seems like the US has become aware of the oxycontin problem and the medical community is responding with fewer prescriptions. Chinese fentanyl and Latin cartels seem to be a bigger problem today. The supply of fentanyl is unlimited.
Should let frontier justice handle it
I say , say what ! So what . Making world a better place
As far as I know, no one puts a gun to your head and forces you to consume illegal drugs. It is also the consumer’s fault.
NO!! It’s the super cheap fentanyl. I know people did get addicted by excessive pain medicine. But if cheap fentanyl wasn’t being sold, it wouldn’t be this way. And other pain meds were over prescribed and became a problem. Now this hatred of this company is causing people with genuine need for pain treatment are not getting care and they’re suffering terribly
Spot freakin on
Something that has always been strange for me is to see videos or movies where americans are hight after going to denthist.
The deadly drugs coming into America from China is what’s called gray Warfare. Killing 300 Americans a day and how many are sent to prison. Thanks to our government it is working out pretty good for China.
Oxycontin was the perfect drug. Nothing like it before or since. Fent is lethal but it still doesnt compare to everything oxycontin encompassed. The pain relief,euphoria, physical, mental and emotional dependency, the ability to double the dosage in an extremely short amount of time because the tolerance skyrocketed exponentially. They knew what they were doing. They owned Oxycontin and the patents for the “cure” suboxone… Evil. It rocked Fl, it affected everyone
😃😃 Love it !!!!
US deserves it for all the wars and misery they caused all over the world.
Hope it gets a lot worse.
china 👈 The Virus Factory 🤮
So it’s only killing yts. What’s the problem
This is nuts wtf – sending love from Ireland
The drug is so small in its concentrated form , You won’t be able to shut it down at the southern border And even if you could , It’ll just come in from the sea , Or it will be flown in small planes to canada like all the cocaine is , The border you really need to deal with is the northern border in the canadian government , But that’ll never happen , These drugs are being distributed intentionally to kill off the unwanted homeless population in lower class , Why else would they be cutting it with catamine , That way if the narcon will pull you out , The other one will still kill you . Liberal cities with liberal drug laws now just become Open targets for euthanization , Central intelligence agency was running the dope at a south american the eighties , Why shouldn Any of us believed that stopped , I remember being in so much pain and suffering in my early twenties , From the crimes that had been connected against me , Crimes committed by the federal government I was suffering from blackouts and didn’t even know who I was , Thank god all I had was a bag of weed to drown my sorrows , I’m so grateful that I understand what happened to me now and I understand what all of this is really about , That I have the self control and will and cognitive ability to make sure that this drug will never enter my life , Unless of course somebody poisons me , And then makes up the time on our trope about mental illness and a life of struggle was substance to be in the switches mostly a lie , I found a bag of a hundred pills three different times on my street, And I know who left them I know that there are Is corrupt police involved ,
Pakistan has 759 pharmacutical units operated by 650 manufacturing pharmaceutical companies. Last year due to floods & foreign exchange crisis. Letter of credit was not given to importers so thousands of containers were help up at Karachi port. They contained diagnostic equipments,lentils & pharmaceuticals etc. Pharmacutical salt was one of the items too. It approx takes 6months for a medicine to reach market & its shelf life is 2 or 3 years at most. Accoding to my pharmacist due to sun exposure & humadity. Pharmaceutic salt must hv lost its healing power in air tight containers at dockyards. Due to unavailabilty of salt. Pharmaceutics were unable to manufacture drugs in time & unable to dispatch it to markets. So it created a shortage of life saving drugs in market in Pakistan. We faced that challenge single handedly. Now Govt of Pakistan has allocated a budget of Rs26billion for health sector in National budget which is a positive sign
Hahahahaha 😜😜😜. keep thinning the herd.
Big pharma is in the pockets of our politicians
If anyone really cared, they’d look in to WHY are people wanting to take all these drugs in such high doses, to escape from their day to day life. No one wants to talk about that, as that’d really uncover just how disfunctional, corrupt, greedy and exploitive America has become. It is undoubtedly the most corrupt country in the developed world.
So sad to see what was the greatest country, turn to $hit.
“The American dream”….. It’s called a dream because you’d have to be asleep to believe it! 😔
Culling the herd
Exactly, Depop agenda.
Benzos & psych drugs the new epidemic – history seems to teach us nothing
i hate these articles because they people WHO ARE DYING ARE NOT USING PRESCRIPTION DRUGS! it’s already near IMPOSSIBLE to get them prescribed. The misinfo makes people think it’s Oxy, when it’s NOT, the stuff people are dying from is STREET FENT, Disguised under the name oxy or perc. ITS ALL FENT!
Stop spreading MISINFO, People are dying from STREET FENT, Not prescription Oxy, The laws are so tight now u can’t get them prescribed even in SEVERE PAIN. Stop this madness! Your making it worse for the patients.
The American population have been “Tranqed”
Sackler is a jewish family from poland..