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I don’t think you’ll find anyone to argue that they were.

• phtrivier 3y ago
  Unfortunately, my understanding is that some companies found a _lot_ of people to argue exactly that - if anything, to create plenty of value for the shareholder.
  • vuln 3y ago
    And who are the shareholders at the end of the day? The same people taking the pills. Edit: I’m talking about the elderly and their 401ks / pensions and retirement all invested in these types of companies.
• simonsarris 3y ago
  You'll find some right in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37544012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37544012 Lots of people think non-trivial pain warrants opiods. The problem becomes who decides what counts as non-trivial pain. There was a shift in early 2000's towards "believe the patient", which caused an explosion in prescriptions pretty quickly. After all "if 5% of people after xyz surgery demand them, maybe the other 95% are silently suffering", etc. (just describing what is, not what ought to be)