Big Pharma is going down just like Big Tobacco went down.
itâs about timeâŚnow others will sue too and make Big Pharma poor as hell.
So on the lawsuit does the defendant read as âBig Pharmaâ ?
Maybe they can sue âbig oilâ while they are at it.
And âBig Internet Providersâ
Maybe they can sue âBig Internetâ
Iâm pretty confident that congress will veto taking away net neutrality.
Are they going to sue themselves for taking a bunch of Vicodin they didnât need?
Where does the suing stop?
I get that we have a drug problem as a nation, but personal responsibility has to come into play somewhereâŚ
They are waiting on one person for that last I heard.
But if someone were to be really convincingâŚ
How would this help those with severe mental illnesses? If Big Pharma is âpoor as hellâ it would surely severely restrict research into new and better medications that may help us. There is a difference between curbing what is seen as âobsceneâ and excessive profits by Big Pharma and making it as âpoor as hellâ.
sorry @firemonkey I didnât mean to offendâŚi think we have enough prescriptions for now as far as Iâm concernedâŚI just want fair priced meds for senior citizens and children and big pharma screws usâŚlet them lose so they canât hike their prices.
This is about LYING.
Big Pharma CEOs have said for decades that opioids are not addictive. (Benzos also.) There is a lot of evidence that contradicts their claim. CEOs of Big Tobacco companies such as Phillip Morris and R.J. Reynolds also said for decades (even testifying before Congress several times) that nicotine was not addictive.
That seems to be true. However I would pose these questions.
1)Do opioids help to ease pain?
2) Do most people become addicted to them?
3) If they help to ease pain should we deny them to those who donât become addicted?
4) What alternatives to opioids would people propose?
I am gonna read this.
big pharma got sued by the man. LMAO
lolGreedy Ba!!!ds
They become addicted during their pain treatment. Then they cant stop.
I dont know what else could be used because that would be situational.(how much pain is felt by the individual)
maybe they think, and it is very possible, the doctors are over medicating some patients for pain.
ZING!!!, right?
Is it really Big Pharmaâs fault?
I tend to blame the doctors and patients more.
If big pharma promotes more addictive pain meds among doctors, then yes.
Drug reps (some) can be as slimey as used car salesmen.
But to be fair, yes, there is some personal responsibility for doctors after big pharma then patients last. (we dont chose the drug or write the Rx)
There is just a lot of resentment here for those who pay through the nose for medicine, or watch family pay.
while there is blame to be apportioned to all involved, I tend to think that the people making the most money from a given product are the ones most responsible for it, especially when they are pushing it so hard even given known risks to users:
and
why does this post ony have 3 likes?
another article on who caused this:
From as far back as 1911 until the late 1990s, the use of opioids, or narcotics, was limited to very narrow circumstances, such as post-surgical pain and end-of-life care. Thatâs because the medical establishment and regulators were keenly aware of the addictive quality of the drugs and the dangers they posed if misused.
But that all changed when a school of thought started to take over in medicine beginning in the late 1990s, early 2000s. Treating pain became a preeminent priority. Addiction was less of a concern. Pain was dubbed the â5th vital sign.â
Big Pharma played an important role in this transformation and made billions in the process. Now states, cities, counties and other jurisdictions across the country are fighting back with lawsuits and investigations, hoping to hold drugmakers accountable for the collateral damage of the nationâs opioid crisis.
The seeds of the epidemic were planted nearly two decades ago.
With little or no valid, clinical evidence to go on, the medical establishment began prescribing opioids for long-term, chronic pain.
In 2012, the number of opioid prescriptions peaked at more than 255 million, or 81.3 prescriptions for every 100 people in the United States. According to government numbers, there are more than 650,000 opioid prescriptions dispensed every day in the U.S.
By 2014, the U.S., with about 5 percent of the global population, consumed about 80 percent of the opioid supply in the world, making it a $24 billion market.
The family that owns Purdue Pharma, the Sacklers, became one of the wealthiest families in the country, with a net worth that reached as high as $14 billion in 2015, largely on the strength of the opioid OxyContinâs profits. The family was ranked by Forbes to be among the top 20 richest in the U.S.