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I'm not sure who this is at all relevant. Millions of people still died, and there's a very direct correlation between how much opioids were dumped in a state a
by ehsankia 7y ago
I'm not sure who this is at all relevant. Millions of people still died, and there's a very direct correlation between how much opioids were dumped in a state and the increase in death rates in that state. You can try to blur the lines by throwing statistics about addiction, but you can't deny the actual end results. It doesn't matter if you think it's addictive or not, millions of people died from opioid overdose, and communications show that the execs at these companies very explicitly pushed it heavily knowing full well the impact it had.
- refurb 7y agoOf course it's relevant. The narrative is that companies like J&J promoted opioids which led to higher levels of addiction (and use of illegal opioids). This data suggests that for the vast majority of patients, addiction was not an issue and the cause of the opioid epidemic was in fact people that used illegal opioids to begin with.
- ehsankia 7y agoDoesn't matter if it was addiction of not, people still died of overdose, and there's a direct correlation between higher sales of opioids and deaths. They quite literally killed people for a higher profit.
- Nasrudith 7y agoCorrelation doesn't equal causation or else you have to start charging Ben and Jerry for all of the murders and drownings and the whole justice system becomes the Red Queen's court.
- DanBC 7y agoPlease stop parroting the myths created by the drug companies.