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Thanks for sharing your story. A while back I saw something about heroin addition on the TV. There was an interview with a doctor. She basically said the same
by hn_ 11y ago
Thanks for sharing your story.
A while back I saw something about heroin addition on the TV. There was an interview with a doctor. She basically said the same thing as you - none of her patients just decide to start heroin one day, they start on prescription opioids. Then their supply runs out...
Then they show videos from pharmaceutical companies from the 90s directed at doctors telling doctors to prescribe their opioids to all their patients (basically). It was basically like "30 million Americans have chronic pain... give them Oxycontin. It's totally safe."
- ddmf 11y agoI remember reading something similar about the pharmacy companies telling their doctors that oxycontin didn't cause addiction and therefore it was safer to prescribe than codeine etc: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-big-pharma-hooked-america-on-legal-heroin http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-big-pharma-hooked-ameri...