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<blockquote data-quote="Grendelshooter" data-source="post: 3264933" data-attributes="member: 44870"><p>Probably this.</p><p>My mom killed herself with these over a period of many years. Opiates were her go to.</p><p></p><p>That being the case I’ve devoted some thought to the subject.</p><p></p><p>First and foremost my mom. I love her and miss her dearly but we begged her to stop, but she just wasn’t strong enough to walk away from them.</p><p></p><p>And there lies the crux of the problem. It’s easy to Boomer post and say “Muh personal responsibility!”, but that’s a falsehood. The addictive nature of these opiates is stronger than the will power of most people. They are incredibly difficult to walk away from especially after years of use. The insidious part is that they are designed to be so.</p><p>That’s why I blame the corporate entities that created these things-they knew EXACTLY what they were doing and SPECIFICALLY targeted Caucasians with these drugs.</p><p></p><p>“In 1996, a company called Purdue Pharmaceutical launched a new opiate painkiller called OxyContin. At a party celebrating its release to the public, Richard Sackler, a scion of the family that owns the company and its senior vice president of sales, made exuberant predictions about its success. ‘The launch of OxyContin tablets will be followed by a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition,' he said, according to a lawsuit recently filed against Purdue. ‘The prescription blizzard will be so deep, dense, and <strong><em><u>white</u></em></strong> …' (emphasis is mine).</p><p></p><p>So corporate pharmaceutical agencies are specifically targeting white people for addiction and profit. If only we had elected officials and agencies to stop this sort of thing?</p><p></p><p>Oh what’s that you say? The FDA accepted the claim from Purdue in 1996 that OxyContin had a less than 1% rate of addiction. I don’t personally believe that the technicians at the FDA are that stupid-they were paid off, as were the politicians that allow these drugs to be mass marketed online and on television. As are the doctors that are rewarded for prescribing more drugs.</p><p></p><p>So who do you blame? The creator/marketer who knowingly releases a nearly irresistible poison? The government that backs the drug as safe and non-addictive and bans research into genuinely benign alternatives? Or the doctor who, knowing what it is, prescribes these poisons for long periods of abuse?</p><p></p><p>Or do you blame the poor working class woman who through a life of physical labor gets a permanent back injury, who goes to a doctor she trusts to “do no harm” to her, who sees her elected representatives tell her that the drug her doctor gave her is safe, created by benevolent scientists in the pursuit of health and better living.</p><p>I remember the woman my mom was before OxyContin. The thing I buried was just a shell.</p><p>She was 51 years old. She never even got to meet her grandchildren.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grendelshooter, post: 3264933, member: 44870"] Probably this. My mom killed herself with these over a period of many years. Opiates were her go to. That being the case I’ve devoted some thought to the subject. First and foremost my mom. I love her and miss her dearly but we begged her to stop, but she just wasn’t strong enough to walk away from them. And there lies the crux of the problem. It’s easy to Boomer post and say “Muh personal responsibility!”, but that’s a falsehood. The addictive nature of these opiates is stronger than the will power of most people. They are incredibly difficult to walk away from especially after years of use. The insidious part is that they are designed to be so. That’s why I blame the corporate entities that created these things-they knew EXACTLY what they were doing and SPECIFICALLY targeted Caucasians with these drugs. “In 1996, a company called Purdue Pharmaceutical launched a new opiate painkiller called OxyContin. At a party celebrating its release to the public, Richard Sackler, a scion of the family that owns the company and its senior vice president of sales, made exuberant predictions about its success. ‘The launch of OxyContin tablets will be followed by a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition,' he said, according to a lawsuit recently filed against Purdue. ‘The prescription blizzard will be so deep, dense, and [B][I][U]white[/U][/I][/B] …' (emphasis is mine). So corporate pharmaceutical agencies are specifically targeting white people for addiction and profit. If only we had elected officials and agencies to stop this sort of thing? Oh what’s that you say? The FDA accepted the claim from Purdue in 1996 that OxyContin had a less than 1% rate of addiction. I don’t personally believe that the technicians at the FDA are that stupid-they were paid off, as were the politicians that allow these drugs to be mass marketed online and on television. As are the doctors that are rewarded for prescribing more drugs. So who do you blame? The creator/marketer who knowingly releases a nearly irresistible poison? The government that backs the drug as safe and non-addictive and bans research into genuinely benign alternatives? Or the doctor who, knowing what it is, prescribes these poisons for long periods of abuse? Or do you blame the poor working class woman who through a life of physical labor gets a permanent back injury, who goes to a doctor she trusts to “do no harm” to her, who sees her elected representatives tell her that the drug her doctor gave her is safe, created by benevolent scientists in the pursuit of health and better living. I remember the woman my mom was before OxyContin. The thing I buried was just a shell. She was 51 years old. She never even got to meet her grandchildren. [/QUOTE]
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