The opioid epidemic is projected to claim 1.22 million U.S. lives this decade without new efforts to stem the crisis, according to a report that traces the roots of the problem and offers in-depth solutions.
I don’t even know what to say to this shit. More than a thousand deaths per week… but those deaths didn’t start 25 years ago. They started once Purdue Pharma was demonized and the DEA cracked down on pill mills.
there are probably more things factually wrong with your post here than this, but “Purdue Pharma was demonized” is the most egregious one to me. it’s not really in question that Purdue played a major role in the first wave of opioid deaths through its mass marketing of opioids, lies about the addictive nature of the opioids they produced–particularly Oxycontin–and generally callous and dismissive nature of what they were doing despite knowing the damage they were causing. the most i think you can say is they simply haven’t been as disproportionately responsible for subsequent waves of opioid addiction–but they in large part kicked off what we now consider the opioid epidemic, and i think doing anything but raking them for that is basically malpractice.
there are probably more things factually wrong with your post here than this, but “Purdue Pharma was demonized” is the most egregious one to me. it’s not really in question that Purdue played a major role in the first wave of opioid deaths through its mass marketing of opioids, lies about the addictive nature of the opioids they produced–particularly Oxycontin–and generally callous and dismissive nature of what they were doing despite knowing the damage they were causing. the most i think you can say is they simply haven’t been as disproportionately responsible for subsequent waves of opioid addiction–but they in large part kicked off what we now consider the opioid epidemic, and i think doing anything but raking them for that is basically malpractice.