Pharmaceutical companies should be 100% exempt from liability.
The drugs are tested and reviewed by the FDA and given approval.
If that approval does not safeguard the people from dangerous drugs, then it is a useless agency.
My mother has been on OxyContin for 25 years. She has not had her dosage increased and takes it when the pain is unbearable. She knows it is addictive and keeps focused on not needing it.
The blaming of profit is just another play at socialized medicine.
As with your mother some people are dependent on opioids to have a normal life. This is different from being addicted.
When I had cervical stenosis I was on oxy for 2 weeks straight and, after the first neck injection, started tapering off. For me it took away the pain. No buzz, no squirreliness, just relief from the pain. Ofc I gave up drinking the whole time I was taking it.
Talked to a guy at the range and he had the same reaction to oxy. Just pain rrlief.