[cherry]

AMERICANS fueled the opioid crisis...

[Ingtar]

The only crisis that I see is how hard they have made it for law abiding citizens to get pain relief. My niece had major surgery on her neck with massive pain and nothing to help.

[KC_Conspirator]

“Tritation”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-13/opioid-rap-video-adding-to-john-kapoor-s-woes-at-insys-trial

[Bob434]

[[At trial, Oklahoma says Johnson & Johnson’s ‘greed’ fuelled U.S. opioid crisis]]

And now oklahoma and many many other states are fueled by greed and are going after ‘free money’ from the opioid company just like they were greedy going after tobacco-

[LIConFem]

What do we do when all of our Pharma companies are sued out of existance?

These state prosecutors should be personally on the hook for court and defendants’ costs when they bring such frivolous lawsuits.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Military/Veterans?

[ClearCase_guy]

I think opioids are a serious problem.

But I also think that what we have here is a company that had a product, and wanted to sell its product. I have a hard time opposing that. Is Smith & Wesson next?

Seems like a slippery slope.

[gaijin]

Meet the original billionaire inventer of oxy, the SACKLER FAMILY..!

Now let's take look at opioid deaths in the USA over time:

Wow, that's a lot. I wonder what might help to account for that amazing growth:

Shameful, huh..? In view of such evil ambition, I wonder how profitable opiods are, huh..? The Sackler family owns an incredible 1/3 of the entire legal opiods market and they route all of their profits through Bermuda, where they own a non-descript office building.

I wonder HOW rich you can get...

But that's just ONE of their many houses.

This one goes for $32 million dollars and it's in Bel Air, next to Beverly Hills.

After HOOKING people, you probably won't believe that they were also recently granted a patent for a drug to get people UN-hooked, would you..?

Yes, paid to hook people, then paid to UN-hook them. Nice biz, huh...?

Nice medal, maybe he planted a flag on Mount Suribachi, right...?

Uh-huh, sure...!

If you weren't in the military, could you wear a serious look on your face while you walked around with a MEDAL on your suit jacket..?

That takes real brass.

[Bonemaker]

Big lawyer gravy train like they sucked out of tobacco. If I were J and J no more painkillers for any of the plaintiffs.

[JohnBrowdie]

these days, FR is ready to nationalize everything from Boeing to the company that makes the little vaping pens. I’m sure the same people will want to send [fill in the blank] to the electric chair for inventing a drug that helped millions of people.

some days, it’s hard to see how this is a discussion forum about limited government.

[tallyhoe]

Doctor’s over prescribed these medications..

[Tammy8]

Doctors are to blame too. Doctors are the worst to go one direction with drugs until it gets out of control, then go the opposite and leave people in pain that should not be. I have seen a couple of cycles of this in my lifetime.

A woman I know is dealing with this opioid crisis up close and personal. Her son was a hard working family man, fairly successful. He was in a horrific car wreck with serious injuries a few years ago. Along the way he was given pain meds like there was no tomorrow for a couple years. Then he was all but cut off by his doctors, and he claimed to still be in a lot of pain. Whether he was still in pain or whether he became addicted and a drug seeker- he began to seek pain meds on the street. He did become addicted, and lost his family and business along the way. He became a criminal, getting caught along the way for possession more than once. Now he is facing some serious jail time, and has committed the crimes so hard to argue with that. The thing is, could the doctors have dealt with his pain issues differently? Could they have recognized his addiction and possibly got him help with that before his downward spiral?

His mother talked to the sheriff today about her son’s legal issues and he told her this is a common story now. Law enforcement is seeing this over and over.

I don’t pretend to know the answers but doctors, drug companies are not blameless. The open border has not helped either. It is just a mess.