How A Big Drug Company Inadvertently Got Americans Hooked On Heroin

[zachw]

The big company: Purdue Pharma

Their product: Oxycontin

 

Article here.

 

[bobandtorey]

Thanks

 

 

and Purdue has taken steps to curb the addiction epidemic, like paying for addiction hotlines and working with law enforcement to help them better identify pills that are frequently abused.

 

 

Just get them hooked and then lock them up ?

[trichcycler]

They've been marketing cocaine and heroin even to children from the beginning. Now, its amphetamines for children. a large number of todays prisoners were medicated during their childhood with some of these powerful drugs. But somehow CVS keeps a line of supporters at the register. Appears our society suffers from a prescription drug deficiency syndrome.(PDDS)..... who would have thought that so many people couldn't live without Lipitor and metformin ! Good thing big pharma reminded us in those ads, whew....

http://io9.com/how-todays-illegal-drugs-were-marketed-as-medicines-510258499

[Wild Bill]

The result: Nearly four out of five people who recently started using heroin used prescription painkillers first, according to a 2013 study from the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality.

 

What was that about gateway drugs?