Posted on 11/17/2021 5:15:28 AM PST by Kaslin
Unfortunately, Purdue Pharma generated spurious research that downplayed the risk of opioid abuse and then used high pressure sales tactics and lobbying of government agencies to push product out the door. Internal emails and testimony from company insiders establish that Purdue Pharma executives were well aware that they were stoking opioid abuse and addiction. In effect, due to Purdue Pharma the difficult medical balance between caution and accommodation in prescribing opioids was tilted in favor of addiction.
You have a point. I have at times also benefitted from narcotic painkillers in the hospital and have at times used them as an outpatient, but only as prescribed and not on an indefinite basis. For many people, the problem of course is not so much in taking opioids as prescribed as in not being able to stop taking them when all valid need has passed.
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