bxsephjo t1_j878n6p wrote on February 12, 2023 at 3:59 AM

Reply to comment by Sparkykc124 in [OC]Combating The Opioid Epidemic Medicaid's Opioid Prescription Decline by Away-Pepper-9239

This has everything to do with battling the opioid epidemic. Doctors were misled and lied to by Purdue reps regarding the addictiveness of these drugs. Purdue pushed oxycodone HARD. This absolutely led to patients becoming addicted, and later overdosing. Purdue was taken to court by multiple states over this.

Sparkykc124 t1_j87b77u wrote on February 12, 2023 at 4:21 AM

Eh, doctors knew, every one has known that opioids are addictive for hundreds of years. Are the Sacklers scum? You bet, but let’s not put all the blame on them. Vicodin used to be prescribed for minor injuries, as a kid I remember getting codeine cough syrup every winter, people with chronic pain were perpetually prescribed dilaudid, and somehow I’m to believe the “opioid crisis” was caused by OxyContin?

bxsephjo t1_j87c2vk wrote on February 12, 2023 at 4:29 AM

Sounds like your mind is made up…

Sparkykc124 t1_j87cis9 wrote on February 12, 2023 at 4:34 AM

Can you refute anything I said? Or comment on the fact that opioid deaths and use are up even though prescriptions of opioids have become almost impossible to get for the last five or so years?

Kebo94 t1_j87pbjj wrote on February 12, 2023 at 6:46 AM

US consumes 80% of the worlds opiods. How is that "almost impossible".

Steeled14 t1_j87rtc9 wrote on February 12, 2023 at 7:18 AM

https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2018/3/8/the-myth-that-americans-consume-80-of-the-worlds-opioids

I thought that sounded like that number made about zero sense, and I found that the “80%” figure you mentioned has been repeated all over the place and it’s incredibly false. At one point in time, at one point, the United States had 80% of world’s sales for oxycodone. 99% for hydrocodone (every other country uses different stuff like classic morphine). Careful with statistic facts and numbers out there, I tend to remind myself constantly.

Steeled14 t1_j87s2y8 wrote on February 12, 2023 at 7:21 AM

Oxycodone and Purdue is a problem that definitely should be talked about but if we hyper-focus on it too much we are missing about a hundred chapters of the rest of the story. Or twenty chapters, I don’t have an exact number but you know what I’m saying.