> "What about all the people who were diagnosed with terminal cancer and were suffering from unimaginable pain?" I don't think anyone would disagree here. But

> "What about all the people who were diagnosed with terminal cancer and were suffering from unimaginable pain?" I don't think anyone would disagree here. But they weren't just prescribing it to terminal cancer patients, were they? "With the launch of OxyContin, in 1995, Purdue unleashed an unprecedented marketing blitz, pushing the use of powerful opioids for a huge range of ailments and asserting that its product led to addiction in “fewer than one percent” of patients."