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The FDA played a big role in the opioid crisis by permitting manufacturers to claim for years that the narcotics being prescribed were not habit forming. "Preve
by cempaka 3y ago
The FDA played a big role in the opioid crisis by permitting manufacturers to claim for years that the narcotics being prescribed were not habit forming. "Preventing deaths" is not necessarily the incentive they're responding to.
- lillecarl 3y agoThere's a dramatised version of this story on Disney+ called "Dopesick", it's very good, but not great PR for the US. There's also the movie "Dark Waters" about DuPont and Teflon if you want to trust your government even less.
- ghufran_syed 3y agoThe government, through JCAHO, also helped create the opioid crisis, with their push for the healthcare system to treat pain as the "fifth vital sign". Note that while JCAHO is supposedly a non-profit, JCAHO accreditation is a requirement for receiving medicare and medicaid funding from the government, which makes it a pretty big stick to beat the healthcare system with. Of course, now that large amounts of patient harm are recognized as a result, the regulators and bureaucrats are extremely quick to dodge any responsibility, summarized well here with quotes from various JCAHO publications in the past: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6139759/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6139759/