The legal papers linked at the start of this article make for a great read. The Sacklers are monsters who got people hooked on ever increasing doses they couldn't quit. It's not just about diverting and using the drug recreationally; most of the addicts started out with legit pain needs. Thousands of them are now dead.
It is easy to scapegoat the founders, but I know quite a few people, including myself, where OxyContin was the only pain reliever that really worked. In my case, took it after surgery. Not sure that Purdue Pharma is any worst or better than other Big Pharma.
Same here. All these god-damned opiate laws made it so hard to get renewals of medication for my chronic pain. And insurance stopped covering Tapentadol which was by far the most effective and safest drug. In 2011 I was pummeled and then tortured in LA by police/jail officials, which caused cervical spine damage.
So I switched to kratom. Its a shame but kratom is much healthier anyhow. It has vitamins and minerals and fiber, cant be overdosed on, doesnt cause massive constipation, isnt as physically addictive, its an all around better drug for daily pain management.
It's a well known fact for anyone practicing palliative medicine that often you have to shuffle around opioids to see which one works. And there is really nothing special about oxycodone, it's just another opioid that's been known for over 100 years.
It's great that it worked for you guys (for real, it's fantastic), but the whole concept of systematically pushing a particular opioid is disturbing.
Tapentadol isnt a standard opioid. Its an upgraded version of Tramadol that required millions of dollars in funding to research and discover. It is by the same company, Depomed, who discovered Tramadol. Tapentadol is an amazing drug with better pain relief than actual standard opioids like morphine or oxy.
The legal documents reveal that they are pretty terrible people. It's not that oxi doesn't work; it's that they pushed doctors to get their legit patients to be on higher doses for longer times, making addicts and overdose victms.
It's precisely because this was directed at legit pain patients that it is worse. The opioid crisis wasn't caused by recreational drug users stealing grandma's pills. It was caused by the very rich people who ran Perdue and their never-ending quest to increase people's dose and number of refills.
