Posted on 09/18/2018 10:52:22 AM PDT by detective
In recent days insurance companies like Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee have announced they will stop covering prescriptions for OxyContin. This comes after months of lawsuit filings against pharmaceutical companies, individual leadership of pharma companies, and retail pharmacies and dispensaries, all in the name of holding opioid manufacturers accountable for the addiction crisis gripping the nation.
Very few of these suits were brought by victims or their families. Instead, they are being filed by cities, counties, state’s attorneys general, and even Native American tribal councils. Some of the suits have a lot more merit than others, but they got a collective boost in recent weeks when President Trump urged Attorney General Jeff Sessions to sue pharma companies that have contributed to the U.S. opioid crisis.
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I predict, with great ease, that many, many people are going to suffer tremendously and needlessly because we have now entered into the new Salem witch trials of the 21st century.
Even though doctors will legally be able to prescribe opioids for legitimate reasons they will not, or they will intentionally under dose in order to protect themselves from scrutiny. I am aware, first hand, that this chilling effect is already well established in the medical community.
Typical Puritan repressive authoritarian bullsh!t response to a problem such as this, pardon my French but I’m fed up with it. Rather then deal with a case by case basis let’s just make everyone be a criminal and everyone should suffer. That will teach the rest of you out there a good lesson! What nonsense.
These class action lawsuits do nothing but enrich lawyers and give governments a slush fund. The people who are the victims get nothing. I remember when the government made it mandatory for doctors to treat pain or be punished. That’s when pain medication prescriptions exploded in number. Not long after that came a “less addictive “ pain medicine that could be taken twice a day. Its name was Oxycontin. We know how that turned out.
This isn’t about Puritanism.
This is about Leftists trying to take down our largest corporations.
Sadly some on the right join them trashing pharmaceutical companies left and right.
Folks, destroy them and watch what happens to health care.
This is a fools game, and it winds up like some version of Venezuela.
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
In this masterful work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America’s twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction. From distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs; from disparate cities to once-idyllic farm towns; it’s a heartbreaking trajectory that illustrates how this national crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched.
Beginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, Macy endeavors to answer a grieving mother’s question-why her only son died-and comes away with a harrowing story of greed and need. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. In some of the same distressed communities featured in her bestselling book Factory Man, the unemployed use painkillers both to numb the pain of joblessness and pay their bills, while privileged teens trade pills in cul-de-sacs, and even high school standouts fall prey to prostitution, jail, and death.
Through unsparing, yet deeply human portraits of the families and first responders struggling to ameliorate this epidemic, each facet of the crisis comes into focus. In these politically fragmented times, Beth Macy shows, astonishingly, that the only thing that unites Americans across geographic and class lines is opioid drug abuse. But in a country unable to provide basic healthcare for all, Macy still finds reason to hope-and signs of the spirit and tenacity necessary in those facing addiction to build a better future for themselves and their families.
OxyContin should have never been aproved for general use....it was for people dying of cancer
The Oxycontin and Acetaminophen combination is the only medication bar none that relieves my pain from a toothache. I’m talking a piercing top of the head to the middle of the jaw pain. It does so in five to ten minutes. It pretty much knocks the pain out for five to six hours. I mean it’s totally gone.
I’ve tried tens of other medications including those with codeine and other additives.
Take these items off the market, and I will be subject to incredible debilitating pain.
Yes, medications can be abused. You know, I don’t submit myself to becoming addicted. If I have a pain problem, I go to a physician and take care of the problem.
I’ve been administered Morphine in the hospital setting for days at a time. I have been on Dilaudid as well. When I didn’t need it, I didn’t take it. Not unsurprisingly, I didn’t get addicted.
As for those kids, I don’t know what black markets were created in order to hook them, but don’t immediately jump to the conclusion that corporate heads came up with some devilish plan to addict our nation.
Nobody can addict you, if you don’t submit yourself to drug abuse.
There’s a study for you.
To receive pain medications, I was required to
enter a contract agreeing to be drug tested. I was
treated like a felon, parolee or probationer.
You got off easy.
If you think about it, isn't that an exact description of how the Left handles it.
Violent criminals must have been mistreated by society...
Killers must have had a rotten dad...
Alcoholics have a disease...
I think the Puritan ethic IS to take ownership. It's to repent, ask for forgiveness, and live a better life.
I am a recovering alcoholic and I do have a disease. The American Medical Association recognizes it as one. Does that mean I blame someone else for my actions when I was drunk? No. I was at fault, not society. Did it mean that I wanted to bring back Prohibition? No. It means that I have no more control over anyone else’s drinking then I did over my own. I have taken responsibility for the fact I’m an alcoholic and twenty eight years ago I turned my life and my will over to a higher power I choose to call God. And everyday I work a program to stay sober and to carry that message to others and I have made amends to those I’ve harmed, except when to have done so would have injured them or others.
I respect your actions. I know what the AMA view is. I’m not going to sit here and push my views, when I respect what you’ve done to take control of your life. Whatever you think about alcoholism is fine with me. You’ve gone through the steps, and I think that’s admirable. You have my best wishes for a continued life-long victory. A straight line to victory is something that is not always in the cards. If you are ever discouraged, remember that one guy out here accepts you, and knows you will be victorious in the end. Hopefully, you’ll never need to cash in that assurance.
Thank you for your kind words. All of us in recovery, anyone working a program only gets a daily reprieve. The one thing to remember is to have a sense of humility. And humility is knowing one is not God.
The biggest lie is that our porous borders and bringing in heroin and fentynel by the bucket-loads.
Have worked addictions treatment for years. Hardly any oxy addictions in the past 7 years. All heroin and fentynel .
This drama about oxys is untrue. Perhaps ten years ago yes, but not now.
It will increase the suicide rate among pain sufferers and decrease insurance costs and medicare costs.
Heroin dealers are somehow responsible for the oxy use??
Heroin became popular because it has been cheap and the borders porous and interdiction, minimal.
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All the best...
Thank you, sincerely. 28 years, BOY AM I THIRSTY!! (just kidding.)
Ah... I kinda doubt that.
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