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Before a doctor gets a new drug it should’ve been approved by a government agency and gone through trails. The company selling it trains doctors on its use and
by wil421 6y ago
Before a doctor gets a new drug it should’ve been approved by a government agency and gone through trails. The company selling it trains doctors on its use and side affects. The problem is the company was lying and telling half truths. Not only that they pushed use cases where something as strong as Oxy was not needed.
Pill mill doctors are a different story and they are prosecuted for it.
- TheOtherHobbes 6y agoPharma distributors used various shady techniques - originally pioneered by Purdue - to persuade doctors to push the drug. https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2020/01/12/opioid-kickback-scheme-boston-bribery-trial-epidemic https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2020/01/12/opioid-kickback... And while some jail time happened - for some of the distributors - the sentences were relatively light. https://www.npr.org/2020/01/23/798973304/pharmaceutical-executive-john-kapoor-sentenced-to-66-months-in-prison-in-opioid https://www.npr.org/2020/01/23/798973304/pharmaceutical-exec... Purdue kept a database of doctors willing to prescribe their products "for pain relief" and have now switched sides to push a drug that treats opioid addiction under a new marketing campaign and a new industry front. https://www.genesisrecovery.com/who-caused-the-opioid-crisis/ https://www.genesisrecovery.com/who-caused-the-opioid-crisis...