Posted on 02/11/2018 3:37:31 PM PST by nickcarraway
Will that be enough to deflect federal prosecution?
Instead of investigating doctors who over prescribe lets just go after every doctor. There is also NO chance drugs are being smuggled in from Mexico or China.
the govt don't give a damn and neither do the peoples.....
oxy is a commodity to be sold....there is nothing moral or immoral about it or legal or illegal...
its the peoples choice to demand it or use it....
look in the mirror folks...
I recently hooked up a TV antenna after years of not watching any commercial TV. I could not believe the number of drug peddling commercials. It’s obscene. Drug companies should NEVER be allowed peddle their poisons directly to the public. Doctors should make the decisions, not Madison Avenue.
closed the barn door after the horse had bolted
A lot of jobs lost. Sad.
Twenty years too late.
I agree with you. Animated images of pills as “your friends.”
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Oxy-Cotin = OxyContin. My fingers are numb and can’t type very good.
They whack my Oxy, I’ll just turn to heroin!
22 Years too late (released in 1996)
Let’s ban opioids. Let’s start with politicians, bureaucrats, prosecutors and their families.
This really pisses me off. This is probably a fine and useful drug for people who have a real need for opioids such as those suffering from cancer and such. And now they won’t have access to it.
Look, I have sympathy for those who get hooked on these drugs and die from overdoses. I really do. Because people make mistakes and get ensnared.
But to make this out like these people are innocent “victims” really gets me. The vast majority of these people have probably NEVER had Oxycontin prescribed to them, but get it off the street and take it recreationally. If someone can prove otherwise to me, I will listen.
Point is, there is a personal responsibility element, and while I don’t see how it serves any use to feel no sympathy to them and their family, or to deny them treatment, I also think that people should stop treating them like innocent victims. The vast majority of these people CHOSE to take these, and either got hooked on them, overdosed on them, or both. It really makes me angry to compare them to someone who gets a disease through no fault of their own.
Stop marketing, not stop making.
I don’t see how this will change access.
I agree with that. Perhaps the price people pay on the street will go up because people won’t be able to steal them from people who they have been prescribed to, or they won’t be able to get them for some other condition.
But as you said, if the market remains, the product will find a way.
Wonder the percentage that goes/went to Medicare and Medicaid patients. I’ll bet it’s in the 80% range.
I was about to say the same. The fact that the company will no longer be sending reps to doctors’ offices to push the drug does not mean it won’t be manufactured or doctors won’t prescribe it.
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