“aEven worse,did they design it to be addictive?”
Yes.
They spent many, many years analyzing the great morphine addiction epedemic of the early 20th century, and designed w drug, on purpose, to emulate the exact effects on the brain that morphine causes. Then patented it, and launched a highly funded marketing campaign aimed at doctors.
The family made billions, and should be hung.
Congressman bought lff. Scientists, fake studies, lots of cash spread around. And they got an entire generation hooked. And now they are dying from OD’s of the street stuff, because their money ran out, supplies cut, and they still have this horrible addiction.
The power of a strong opiod on the brain is indescribable to those who have never experienced it. Just a short time on one can alter your brain forever. You never, ever forget the euphoria, and that memory is always there. I speak from experience.
I work with addicted kids, young adults. They are dropping like flies. I’ve seen it first hand. If you don’t have such experiences, on both sides of the fence, I would strongly suggest keeping an open mind of the problem.
(Not you personally, just for the board)
I had my first brain surgery in Europe. I was in hospital a week or so. All I had to do was say the word for pain and they stabbed me with morphine. Many times a day. When I went home, with only some mild opiate pills in comparison, I remember lying on the bed in agony wishing for a shot.
I will never let that happen to me again. I’ve had a few c sections and after the first shot they give when the anesthesia wears off, I refuse all pain killers. I take opiates only when necessary (after surgeries etc) and I stop the second my mind says “well, I’m not in pain now but I’m gonna be so I’ll take one for later. “ done.
But that first surgery, that was not my fault. That was iatrogenic for sure.