Posted on 03/05/2019 6:29:39 AM PST by C19fan
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP is exploring filing for bankruptcy to address potentially significant liabilities from roughly 2,000 lawsuits alleging the drugmaker contributed to the deadly opioid crisis sweeping the United States, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.
The potential move shows how Purdue and its wealthy owners, the Sackler family, are under pressure to respond to mounting litigation accusing the company of misleading doctors and patients about risks associated with prolonged use of its prescription opioids.
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People don’t need 2-4 week supply for a meniscus repair.
How did that “lie” make it past the FDA?
Just curious.
Every time you say bunk you are lying. It’s not bunk. They’ve been getting busted for these lies since 2007. Those are the FACTS. They lied, and they’ve been regularly getting in trouble for that since at least 2007. It ain’t “all of a sudden” like you claim, and it is established that they lied. No bunk. That is reality.
1970: Oxycodone is listed as a Schedule II drug in the new Controlled Substances Act. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA): “Schedule II drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with a high potential for abuse, less abuse potential than Schedule I drugs, with use, potentially leading to severe psychological or physical dependence. These drugs are also considered dangerous.”
” Like gun death statistics.”
Precisely. Same types who want to punish all law abiding gun owners for the actions of a few criminals want to delegitmize lawful, compassionate medical use of painkillrs thanks to criminal drug trafficking. It’s fiendish mindset.
It’s unfortunate that it has found a foothold on FR.
Both Tucker Carlson and that mendacious idiot, Bret Baier, never distinguish between drugs administered by doctors and the foul stuff sold on the street. It confuses easily confused people.
The sources I relied on are professional medical journals. Reuters did not make the cut.
See Post 51.
1995 was when Purdue introduced their rendition Oxycontin. Which they insisted was safe and nonaddictive and not conducive to abuse. These claims, which records have shown they KNEW were false at the time, are the basis of them losing dozens of lawsuits in multiple countries.
In 2007 they plead guilty to misleading the public about Oxycontin’s risk of addiction.
They admitted it. Why can’t you.
I actually don't have time for a liberal sympathizer.
You have a nice day and goodbye.
Btw, Oxycontin was relesed in 1996, not 1995.
I’m sure you’re finding all this stuff and studiously ignoring it because it’s important to you to that Purdue be a poor unfortunate company beleaguered by the MSM. Out here in reality not so much.
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/business/11drug-web.html
“The company that makes the narcotic painkiller OxyContin and three current and former executives pleaded guilty today in federal court here to criminal charges that they misled regulators, doctors and patients about the drug’s risk of addiction and its potential to be abused.”
And they also make fentanyl, which you were insisting this is a distraction from. Their hands aren’t clean.
That is just not true.
No it was not.
Yes it was. And they pleaded guilty to it:
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/business/11drug-web.html
Rush must be happy. He lost his hearing due to OxyContin.
My sister’s a nurse and has always had problems with the extreme theatrics the addicted put on to try to get free legal opioids. The problem never was in how the stuff is marketed or by whom. The problem is that under the Obama admin in particular the hospitals don’t get reimbursed for indigent care if an indigent gives them a bad review, and these grifters know it. So they literally hold doctors and hospitals hostage by threatening to complain. So to keep them happy some docs and bosses ‘feed the beast’ and let them have what the nurses refuse to give.
A lot of problems we see today have to do with this pressure to please even those who aren’t paying a dime.
That’s not my experience. I have a family member who works in a major hospital and the staff there just laugh about the druggies and the games they play to get dope. They get nothing from them. That is the word I get, anyway.
No. The problem is that we over prescribe pain meds. This predates Obama by over a decade. Perdue out and out LIED about the addictiveness of their drug. And we’ve been handing out opioids (even ones Perdue didn’t lie about) like candy ever since. You can get a dental procedure without being handed a scrip for vicodin anymore, even when the pain is minor (my last procedure they have me that scrip for I controlled the pain with a few advil, one when the local wore off, one before bed, and one when I woke up, but I could have gotten a dozen vics if I wanted).
We give out too many pain meds. We’ve been doing it since the mid 90s. It ain’t Obama’s fault. It’s OUR fault. We demanded all these pain meds from doctors. We decided treating pain was more important than fixing problems. We fill these damn prescriptions.
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