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Oxy Billionaire Granted Patent for **Addiction Treatment**
Financial Times ^ | David Crow

Posted on 01/16/2019 11:06:22 AM PST by gaijin

Gets paid to hook them, then paid again to UNhook them..?!

Richard Sackler, whose family owns Purdue Pharma, the company behind the notorious painkiller OxyContin, was granted a patent earlier this year for a reformulation of a drug used to wean addicts off opioids.

The invention is a novel form of buprenorphine, a mild opiate that controls drug cravings, which is often given as a substitute to people hooked on heroin or opioid painkillers such as OxyContin.

(more at link)


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Free Republic; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: addiction; billionaires; opiates; opoids; oxy; oxycontin; pharma; pharmaceuticals
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The Billionaire Sackluh Dynasty

1 posted on 01/16/2019 11:06:22 AM PST by gaijin
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To: gaijin

HERE is the Sackler's $23 million dollar home in Bel Air, Calif.

This is just ONE of their homes, though.

2 posted on 01/16/2019 11:08:54 AM PST by gaijin
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To: gaijin

3 posted on 01/16/2019 11:12:47 AM PST by gaijin
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To: gaijin

Just the tip of the pharmaceutical corruption going on. Check out generics and what is being paid to third-world cesspools for the tainted drugs coming into the USA. Meanwhile, the drug companies are reaping billions on the poison they’re peddling.


4 posted on 01/16/2019 11:14:34 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: gaijin

Been there in 2010, on medical Rx, got off it w/ Suboxone Rx in 5 days. Haven’t been back since, even with uber-painful Severe/Acute Pancreatitis, 23+11 days in 2 hospitals, 15 Endoscopies etc.


5 posted on 01/16/2019 11:15:17 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: gaijin

If your doctor says “dependence” is not addiction, run away as fast as you can.

He’s an incompetent, and could kill you.


6 posted on 01/16/2019 11:26:13 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: carriage_hill
Been there in 2010, on medical Rx, got off it w/ Suboxone Rx in 5 days. Haven’t been back since, even with uber-painful Severe/Acute Pancreatitis, 23+11 days in 2 hospitals, 15 Endoscopies etc.

I would very much like to hear your story. My wife has chronic/acute Pancreatitis and since Jan 2012 she has been in the hospital over 50 times, each stay lasting 1-2 weeks. Multiple ERCP's, MRI's, and CAT scans.

7 posted on 01/16/2019 11:40:54 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: gaijin; dainbramaged; TheStickman

Damn the pusherman!


8 posted on 01/16/2019 11:55:08 AM PST by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: KC_Lion

I’m your mama, I’m your daddy
I’m that nigga in the alley
I’m your doctor, when in need
Want some coke, have some weed
You know me, I’m your friend
Your main boy, thick and thin
I’m your pusherman
I’m your pusherman


9 posted on 01/16/2019 11:56:42 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: KC_Lion

I felt really insulated from all this.

Then a COP I know in the USA overdosed..!

That shocked me to the core, showing me that a LOT of non-hipppy types are getting knicked by this stuff.

WOW.

I mean, even RUSH was nearly had.


10 posted on 01/16/2019 11:57:01 AM PST by gaijin
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To: dfwgator; dainbramaged
Steppenwolf
11 posted on 01/16/2019 12:01:53 PM PST by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: gaijin
WOW, Gaijin.

Is there any sort of Oxy/Fentanyl epidemic going on in Japan?

12 posted on 01/16/2019 12:03:50 PM PST by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: rjsimmon

Mar 23, 2017, I had a CT-scan (dry, dr forgot to Rx liquid media to drink) and when they read scan, the shadows looked like Pancreatic Cancer. I went to the area’s premier Oncologist, but passed out in his office. They rushed me to York Hospital, prepped me for surgery, gave me a WET CT-scan, and it was a 10” x 6” pseudo-cyst growing on my Pancreas, from the Gall Bladder sludge, stalagmite-style.

I was in 23 days, DIED 2X AND THEY BROUGHT ME BACK, on IV food & water in my neck veins, 3 other IV antibiotics in my arms. My stomach was compressed by the cyst, that it could only hold 1-3 teaspoons of apple sauce.

I was a zombie when I got out April 14. Lost 131-lbs, down from 265. Body ate all body fat and my muscles atrophied, since I was IV feed, and ice chips. I’m walking a lot, but can’t work-out w/ remaining stent in stomach, back up to 160-lbs now and plan to keep my weight around 170. Worst 23 days in my life, so far.

The ERCP I needed - to drain the pseudo-cyst thru the stomach - is only done at PSU-Hershey Hospital (Dr Moyer/ Dr Dye in GI), so I switched hospitals and they’ve done 15 ERCPs, 17 CT Scans, (can’t have an MRI since I have a .32cal inside my pelvis), and the pseudo-cyst has reduced to 1cm x 2cm and they opened-up the GB stricture to let fluids flow.

I had 5 pigtail stents thru stomach into cyst to drain it.

GB has 1 large stone, but they worked around it. I’m pain-free, recuperating, and go back into PSU-Hershey in early March for final ERCP and CT-scan to measure cyst, and maybe remove last stent. Dr Moyer doesn’t think GB needs to come out. I’ve talked to 2 surgeons who do minimal-invasive GB surgery, and they don’t think so either.

Where are you? What hospital is your wife in?

If you want to talk, I’ll send my cell number.


13 posted on 01/16/2019 12:07:39 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: KC_Lion

Oh, noooo way..!

No, this cop lived/worked in the USA.

I regularly run into Japanese kids who actually DO KNOT KNOW even what “drugs” are.

They will think you are talking about MEDICINE.

It’s really cute.

Even young people decked out in the craziest hip-hop finery have never done drugs, in the overwhelming number of cases.


14 posted on 01/16/2019 12:08:50 PM PST by gaijin
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To: carriage_hill

I live in Fredericksburg, VA. Wife has been in numerous hospitals: VCU, Johns Hopkins, Stafford Regional, Culpeper Regional, Mary Washington, and Spotsylvania Regional. She had GB surgery in Dec 2011 and an ERCP in Jan of 2012. The Dr. cut her pancreatic duct and she has been on opioids ever since.


15 posted on 01/16/2019 12:12:16 PM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: gaijin

The conspiracy theorist in me wonders about the origins of Narcan. I mean, wouldn’t the cartels want it to be available and given out as freely as possible? Especially if most fatal overdoses are for the first time users of fentanyl laced drugs. They want the return business, not one and done.

Freegards


16 posted on 01/16/2019 12:12:38 PM PST by Ransomed
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Replace one addictive drug with another. Call it “maintenance” instead of addiction. Rake in billions.


17 posted on 01/16/2019 1:21:56 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: KC_Lion

Well people make them no money.

Thankful I am free of that racket due to cannabis & a major diet change.


18 posted on 01/16/2019 1:44:08 PM PST by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: rjsimmon

Just wow.
My suggestion would be to get copies of all her medical records on DVD, and send them to Drs Moyer & Dye at PSU-Hershey GI Dept (I will get all that info for you, from their hospital website, and my contacts with their staff who can move things along quickly) and let them review what’s been done from the records.

I’m surprised J-H couldn’t fix it. They have a whole wing for Pancreatic Cancer, but these PSU-H techniques are cutting-edge stuff.

Perhaps they can help or advise, or maybe she’s past the specialized procedures/ops they do.


19 posted on 01/16/2019 2:08:33 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Seruzawa

They have switch out drugs because the body becomes too acclimated, or the liver becomes too toxified.

The body does not become inured to actual nourishing food, as it does to unnatural drugs.

“No one ever died from an aspirin deficiency.” Udo Erasmus, Ph.D. Nutrition

P.S.
Aspirin is derived originally from White Willow Bark, which is less problematic for some, but the real point is that it is natural medicine, not natural food (i.e., it is not classified as a Nutritive).


20 posted on 01/16/2019 4:46:18 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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