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Purdue, which filed for bankruptcy in 2019 amid thousands of lawsuits, made drugs like OxyContin and is blamed for fuelling the crisis. On Tuesday, an appeals court ruled that its owners, the Sackler family, would receive full immunity from civil suits. In exchange, they will pay $6bn to help address opioid addiction.
originally posted by: Jason79
Did they sell opioids to people without prescriptions?
Suppose you traded your car in for a new one. And I bought your old car and made a tiny killdozer out of it. How many years should you spend in prison for letting the dealership sell to me?
If they limited the production of the meds and caused price increases, you would be just as angry.
A better solution would be to punish the people who were responsible for prescribing it responsibly.
originally posted by: incoserv
a reply to: Jason79
Ridiculous.
A used car has no analogous relationship to a drug that is known to be addictive and is pushed to market by corporate inerests and prescribed like jellybeans by medical 'proffesionals' who have taken an oath to 'do no harm ' but sell out to corporate greed.
A more apropos analogy would be an automaker that knowingly sells a car with a fatal defect. And we know that that happens, as well, without substantial penalty.
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originally posted by: darkwingduck
a reply to: vNex92
Some people, myself included, rely on these drugs for a semblance of normal life. People with chronic pain are having to jump through hoops because of the overuse and abuse of these drugs.
originally posted by: frogs453
a reply to: vNex92
It's disgusting how they got away with falsified info, the FDA just went with it
Yup, our so called 'goverment' is corrupt to the core. A criminal gang in cahoots with big pharma, big food & the drug cartels. The sicker we are the better , in their eyes.
originally posted by: frogs453
a reply to: vNex92
This makes me sick. When you find out what they did to people, knowing full well how addictive this drug was, it's horrific.
It's disgusting how they got away with falsified info, the FDA just went with it and there are still people in congress who accepted money from them and backed them up.
originally posted by: JohnTitorSociety
originally posted by: darkwingduck
a reply to: vNex92
Some people, myself included, rely on these drugs for a semblance of normal life. People with chronic pain are having to jump through hoops because of the overuse and abuse of these drugs.
This is consistent with my points, and especially relevant to the fact that 96% of analgesic related deaths involve not organic opiates, nor even synthetic ones, but illegal, unprescribed and trafficked synthetic Fentanyl analogs from China.