I feel fricking amazing, I will consider getting addicted
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How is oxycodone legal?
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain
If you feel like reading a very very long post on Purdue Pharma (the people that marketed oxycontin as "non-addictive" and kicked off the opioid crisis) I always liked this piece.
I still have some trouble believing the whole thing because oxycodone had already existed for decades (as in Percocet) and its addiction liability in default form was well known. I guess everyone really wanted to believe that we'd finally figured out how to make it non-habit-forming just by making it extended release.
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It's a little more complicated. I imagine most normies didn't even know that oxycodone, percocet, and oxycontin were the same drug. Doctors (authority figures in this context) were telling people that it had low addiction risk based on what the manufacturer (Purdue) was telling doctors via documentation and prescribing information. The doctors arguably should've known better but Purdue managed to get all of this "it's low risk!" documentation passed by the FDA, which is usually a lot more careful about stuff like this.
I don't know whether they were ever prosecuted for it, but it eventually came out that Purdue had knowingly lied to the FDA about everything.
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Literally the weed industry. I hold no fault against Purdue.
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They absolutely took advantage of everyone involved and IMO deserve a heck of a lot of the blame for the situation, but yeah the FDA and other relevant organizations really should've realized what was happening and stepped in a lot faster than they did. Production of legal medical controlled drugs is extensively tracked and monitored down to the gram level so it's not like they didn't have the data on how rapidly production and distribution was spiking.
I'm not a big fan of the drug regulation system but if we're gonna have one it should work as designed.
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