>I hope you're right and it's not the other way around. Sadly, it is the other way around. Purdue spent millions of dollars advertising Oxycontin as a safe, le

>I hope you're right and it's not the other way around. Sadly, it is the other way around. Purdue spent millions of dollars advertising Oxycontin as a safe, less-addictive painkiller for chronic pain. Doctors were inundated with "FDA-approved" marketing info, telling them that this specific kind of heroin was an easy, twice-per-day way to deal with back problems, knee pain, arthritis, etc. It was so deceptive that three of their executives were found guilty of criminal charges, and the company was hit with a fine so high it was a record in the pharmaceutical industry. After people had been prescribed what is effectively heroin on a regular basis for months or years, they were addicted.