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2019-08-03 Home Front: Culture Wars

Families say Purdue Pharma must ~~pay reparations~~ be ‘held accountable'

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-08-03 06:39|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 The product was willfully - not accidentally - misused. Same issue as with gun liability. The manufacturer in no way facilitated or encouraged the misuse. Automobiles, liquor, makeup and even money itself are just as easy to misuse, yet no one calls for the manufacturer of those things to be held liable for what the mis-user does.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-08-03 07:21|| 2019-08-03 07:21|| Front Page Top

#2 True, but they're known highly-addictive drugs. The doctors who overprescribe and don't monitor their consumption, as well as the black market distributors certainly have liability

Posted by Frank G 2019-08-03 07:59|| 2019-08-03 07:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Pharma knowingly manufactures 100s of times the statistical requirement for these opioids

They don’t care as long as doctors write prescriptions and someone pays for it they don’t care

And they pay doctors kickbacks for the number of prescriptions they write

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2019-08-03 08:10|| 2019-08-03 08:10|| Front Page Top

#4 I agree with #2-3. Where is the gummint in this? Don't they regulate this stuff?

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-08-03 09:15|| 2019-08-03 09:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Where is the gummint in this?

Watching their 'Big Pharma' portfolio dividends explode.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-08-03 09:40|| 2019-08-03 09:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Not to let Purdue off the hook, but the DEA should have been on top of the over production and over prescription as well, especially when the bodies of OD victims started stacking up. Gotta wonder why so many doctors over prescribed unless they thought they could get away with it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-08-03 16:07|| 2019-08-03 16:07|| Front Page Top

#7 I always recommend taking a look at:

In the pipeline
Derek Lowe's commentary on drug discovery and the pharma industry. An editorially independent blog from the publishers of Science Translational Medicine. All content is Derek’s own, and he does not in any way speak for his employer.

Derek Lowe is a research chemist who works in Big Pharma so he has some interesting insights.

Posted by magpie 2019-08-03 17:38|| 2019-08-03 17:38|| Front Page Top

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