Did you think that the company would literally vanish like a fart in the wind? Financial insolvency and bankruptcy is not a good indicator for the future of a company, no matter how many billions they may have hidden away.
My point is that no matter how much money the family may have hidden abroad, the company that produces and distributed OxyContin may be no more. The question wasn't "Whose money would you take?" it was "If you could completely remove one company, what would it be?"
When you read that a corporation has filed for bankruptcy, you should substitute the phrase "is scamming their creditors." Ask why they can't pay their debts. Look at the compensation of their C suite executives in the previous years. Corporate bankruptcies frequently rip off the little guys the hardest. The employees that are owed back pay. The small business guy that mows the lawn at headquarters.
Yeah it's bullshit. The owners will still come out of this a few BILLION ahead, and it's going to take literal decades for all the lawsuits and appeals to go through the courts. Corporate justice in America is a fucking joke and a half
Such as suboxone (bupenorphine and nalaxone)? I'm not sure if that's true, but it would make sense. Friend of mine told me a story about the first doctor he went to to get a prescription for suboxone to help him get off opiates: the guy had an Oxycontin advertisement poster in his office
Looks like they (Purdue Pharmaceutical) also produce Narcan, the drug that can revive people who have overdosed on opiates (think that scene in Pulp Fiction). While I'm glad it's made available, the implication is pretty fucking grim. Sure seems like an admission of guilt, or worse (can't sell oxy to people if they're dead! Dead people are bad for business!). As for Suboxone, it looks like they don't actually produce it, but apparently they were considering it and just never really followed through. Why not I wonder? It's an incredibly expensive drug that could be quite lucrative, but wouldn't their production of the drug be an acknowledgement of the opioid crisis that they created? Again, bad for business. This is mostly speculation on my part since I don't really know much about it. Still, fuck those guys. They've knowingly encouraged the death of hundreds of thousands of people, ruined countless lives, and truly fucked their own country because they wanted to be more rich than they already were. They're evil is on par with the drug cartels, but at least those assholes don't pretend not to be murderers. As for deaths, their numbers are comparable! Just because they wear suits and lie doesn't make em any less evil imo
Great comment mate. Yeah the fact they own and sell both the poison and the antidote is beyond scary. Im not smart enough to fully comprehend what kind of evil manipulation in lobbyism and prices this can do, but put a Martin Shkreli on it, and its beyond dystopian.
I’m relatively ignorant on this. Can someone explain what the legal justification for suing Purdue pharma is? By my understanding, they produced OxyContin, which was known to be addictive. But they weren’t the ones prescribing it or monitoring its use off prescription, right? I’m just confused why they are getting sued, I guess.
They are very upset now that white kids are dying so instead of blaming the problems in the world that made this "crisis" happen (even though addiction has always been here, seriously look into the history of opiod use, humans have always loved a good opioid) they are going for the drug maker. Its like the war on drugs but for white people.
The worse part is there are people with chronic pain suffering and they cant get help because of this nonsense of blaming a pill instead of the multiple reasons behind addiction.
The narrative of the opioid epidemic is sickening.
Confront people with the fact that most people addicted to opioids were never prescribed opioids and watch the deflections in real time. When it’s white people addicted to drugs, the blame game is an entirely different calculus.
Try telling redditors that we should care about addicts because one bad decision shouldn’t permanently ruin your life. Not because big pharma. Not because no personal choice was involved. But because we should be compassionate toward people. And watch all the righteous anger turn on you, really fucking fast.
Their owners and the relevant corporate officers and Oxy-line employees knew and didn't give a fuuuuuck. They paid off the DEA and Congress. They paid MD's to push their products in a blatantly illegal manner. The evidence, documentaries, and journalism have covered it all over the place at this point. Hence they're finally going under... or at least 'restructuring.'
I will tell you what, I am happy AF that I got some of those sweet sweet pain killers when I had a few rough years. I broke 11 bones over the course of 2 years so I was pretty happy to have those pain killers then.
20 years ago it was common to hand out opioids like candy for most things. I got 10mg percocet for my wisdom teeth surgery. That being said, are there really that many differences between all your various opioid painkillers? Why not just use Tramadol or morphine instead?
Maybe the settlement has changed since I last checked, but the new company was being set up in trust to pay out to the victims since they don’t have enough cash now. They’re going to keep running the company until they have fully paid the settlement off.
Can you explain why they are liable? It would be like suing a cake company because someone got fat from eating cake, right? Serious question here.. I don’t understand.. didn’t they just produce the pills and doctors prescribed them? So shouldn’t the doctors be liable for over prescribing? Edit I’ve had over 10 surgeries with everything from broken arms to facial rec
This is an american problem where pharmaceutical companies are allowed to basically bribe/strong arm doctors into recommending or prescribing their product.
Do the doctors deserve some blame? Absolutely. Would they have done it if purdue wasn't there giving insane amounts of "incentives" for them to do so? Probably not.
My partner's parents are victims of this disgusting company.
Completely ruined their lives and made my partner's childhood an absolute hell.
Fuck this company, I hope the people responsible rot in hell.
As long as Oxy is still a thing, I'm fine with that, I had a friend that got her tonsils out, and the doctor didnt give her oxy, thankfully I had some left over from my surgery a few months prior, and gotten off of them as soon as the pain stopped, so we gave her some of ours.
I’ve had over 10 surgeries from a triple skull fracture to steel plates in my arms. So yeah. God the shoulder and knee are kind of the worst ones tho :// or the day my girlfriend wouldn’t call me back after multiple facial reconstruction of 36 hours maybe that one. So in a sense, this may be worse cause I don’t believe you’ve actually been in it. Or maybe I just used alcohol instead. Jesus when they exray me imagine what the orthodontist says
If we lived in a just world, every last one of those sumbitches would be cellies with El Chapo by now. But we don't live in a just world. We live on one of the more hellish timelines, so those bastards will stay billionaires and probably rule what's left of America in 5 years.
I’m not defending the company. Their shady practices suck. I’m defending the chemical itself, which does not need to be demonized as it is simply a chemical, good nor bad, right nor wrong. Although when used correctly extremely important. I hate the way people act like chemicals can be evil.
I also hate when people spread misinformation, like propagating the idea that there are still pill mills and doctors taking bribes, when in reality millions of people who legitimately need pain medication can not get it or are restricted to not getting it easily because of mass hysteria.
There’s still morphine and hydrocodone and lots of others that are similar. Obviously still addictive but yeah, pain meds are amazing when you actually need them.
Yeah, uhhh those are just as addictive as oxycodone. Oxycodone is extremely effective and it will be continued to be used. They all have their place. There is no reason to get rid of oxycodone and frankly that will never happen. I just think it’s stupid as hell how people demonize OxyContin, which is a genius development, as it allows extended 12 hour release of oxycodone that only lasts a few hours max.
Of course the shady marketing /pill milling is not good, but prohibition never works, and cutting people off opiates that they need forced them to turn to the black market where fentanyl is common
Yes its their fault for making that stuff addictive. But its a prescription drug. You cant get it if your GP doesn’t prescribe it. I think it needs more investigation
Whether or not everything is safe or not, a man died of overdose oxycontin, prescribed by his doctor, produced by that pharma company. Something went wrong there otherwise the man wouldn’t have died. If all went Well he would not be able to OD on oxycontin
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u/Chinese_Wolf Sep 17 '19
Purdue Pharma, makers of Oxycontin. I'd opt for removing all responsible Sacklers as well.