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Ripped off from another fourm:
"Many states and municipalities have filed lawsuits against opioid drug makers that they blame for a national addiction crisis."
This is becoming the new norm. People are killing themselves left and right because they are misusing the product. And right away we have to blame the manufacturer. It's happening with firearms. Now it's with pain killers. It's completely insane. Oxycodone has existed since 1916. It was first introduced to America in 1939. Percodan came on the market in 1950.
Most all of these opiate pain killers have all been around in one form or another for close to a century. Now, all of a sudden, we have a big problem with people dropping dead to the tune of over 40,000 a year because they either can't, or won't follow the instructions that are printed on the bottle of every one of them that is prescribed.
What has changed? Obviously not the medication. So it's the attitude and behavior of the consumer who is tak...
In twenty years, we will see the pot industry giants sued in the same way - somehow choosing to smoke pot will be brushed aside while the lawyers for the burnouts blame "corporations" for their clients becoming ambition-less, memory impared dullards
The Sackler family will:
Admit no wrongdoing
Receive complete immunity from future lawsuits
The judge described the outcome as “bitter,” expressing frustration that the family will retain $11 billion of their allegedly ill-gotten fortune, but closed by saying it was the best deal negotiators could get.
People on opiates effectively no longer have free will as the drugs take over their biology. It's the Sackler family's fault that they died.
How can a legal producer of a legal product be held accountable for illegal use of said product?
Eric Holder saysHow can a legal producer of a legal product be held accountable for illegal use of said product?
Clearly they are paying billions already in the case, and not voluntarily, so they do have some legal liability.
The difference is that with guns it is truly voluntary whether or not you shoot someone.
Once you're addicted to Oxycontin, your free will directly and biologically inhibited by the drug.
But yes, the FDA probably should have some liability in this as well.
But iirc the Sackler family actively lobbied and promoted false research claiming that it was not particularly addictive even in the face overwhelming evidence to the contrary, such as mass death (on the order of half a million people).
I think the FDA is quite corrupt.
General
Oxycodone is subject to international conventions on narcotic drugs. In addition, oxycodone is subject to national laws that differ by country. The 1931 Convention for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs of the League of Nations included oxycodone.[101] The 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of the United Nations, which replaced the 1931 convention, categorized oxycodone in Schedule I.[102] Global restrictions on Schedule I drugs include "limit[ing] exclusively to medical and scientific purposes the production, manufacture, export, import, distribution of, trade in, use and possession of" these drugs; "requir[ing] medical prescriptions for the supply or dispensation of [these] drugs to individuals"; and "prevent[ing] the accumulation" of quantities of these drugs "in excess of those required for the normal conduct of business".[102]
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United States
Under the Controlled Substances Act, oxycodone is a Schedule II controlled substance whether by itself or part of a multi-ingredient medication.[120] The DEA lists oxycodone both for sale and for use in manufacturing other opioids as ACSCN 9143 and in 2013 approved the following annual aggregate manufacturing quotas: 131.5 metric tons for sale, down from 153.75 in 2012, and 10.25 metric tons for conversion, unchanged from the previous year.[121] In 2020, oxycodone possession was decriminalized in the U.S. state of Oregon.[122]
DEA is also corrupt imho, basically a way to feed the for-profit private prisons.
DEA is also corrupt imho, basically a way to feed the for-profit private prisons. This is especially true with respect to cannabis, which is far less harmful than alcohol.
Purdue was in cahoots with DEA
Eric Holder saysPurdue was in cahoots with DEA
They were, and are.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/former-dea-official-now-working-oxycontin-maker-purdue-pharma-n984646
Why would you think they're not?
The criminal violations included conspiring to defraud US officials and pay illegal kickbacks to both doctors and an electronic healthcare records vendor called Practice Fusion, all to help keep opioid prescriptions flowing.
They were actually paying kickbacks to doctors to prescribe that stuff.
The criminal violations included conspiring to defraud US officials and pay illegal kickbacks to both doctors and an electronic healthcare records vendor called Practice Fusion, all to help keep opioid prescriptions flowing.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/24/purdue-pharma-oxycontin-pleads-guilty-opioid-crisis
I'm not absolving the end users who get addicted, as they do have responsibility in it too,
deceptive marketing akin to saying cigarettes are good for your health.
Hircus saysI'm not absolving the end users who get addicted, as they do have responsibility in it too,
At first, OK. But later, it literally fucks with your brain, the mechanisms which motivate every action you make every day.
Eventually, you are literally a slave to it without free will.
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