[Go Gordon]

I hope when this guy is in excruciating pain the doctors refuse to give him pain meds because the doctors don’t want to be sued.

[mplc51]

Pharma did not prescribe these drugs........Dr.’s did, you can buy them on craigslist.

[Demanwideplan]

I agree and I am a staunch conservative Republican. Start with the doctors, pharma reps, and charge them with racketeering. They knew what they were doing.

[eyeamok]

this is when these companies need to implement a New Rule for their Products

Any Doctor, Pharmacist, or any other Medical Provider that prescribes, offers, or gives any Opiate to a Government Employee, Federal or State, for ANY reason, shall be permanently banned from selling our products.

[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.

[Gay State Conservative]

Who's really responsible for this "crisis"? Physicians and surgeons may bear some responsibility...although I live near a top medical "hub" and around here they're *quite* careful handing such things out.

Basically I believe that the addicts themselves are largely...if not entirely...responsible.I don't blame Budweiser when I see a drunk on the street...although your typical personal injury lawyer certainly would.

This "crisis" thing is all about money and lawyers!

[miss marmelstein]

Ah, the anti-drug zealots have arrived - those who never had a toothache or an operation. Just like the old anti-vaccine zealots. Are they scientolists or something?

[NTHockey]

Opioids crisis? Opioids addictive? Why are opioids on the market? Why not heroin? IF we insist on keeping these poisons on the market, label them as such. Class A poisons comes to mind. Inhibits transportation, liability for doctors and manufacturers, etc.

This is a case where free market principles do not apply.

[redgolum]

They need some sort of accountability.

The execs know that their product is being abused.

[Tax-chick]

“Responsible” is a loaded word.

[rlmorel]

The number of people dying of opiod overdoses due to prescriptions written for real problems is dwarfed by the number of people dying of opiod overdoses due to prescriptions obtainted from tainted doctors or under medical pretenses and recreationally obtained and used opioids.

People who need help for opioid addiction should be able to get help, but it is shameful to label them as hapless victims in the same light we might view a victim of a cancer.

They do bear responsibility in this.