Sackler family wins immunity from opioid lawsuits

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[–]UbiquitousCultOfSelf 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Can someone give me a tl;dr of why the onus is not on the user of said drugs?
To me, it's a given that opoid class of drugs would both be addictive AND not very good for anyone long-term. Where exactly should liability come in?
Someone made the comparison to cigarettes, but let's be honest, even if Dr.s were telling people "oh, it's healthy!" the logical person's response should have been, "Oh really, dr? Then come, let us set fire to your office, breathe that in for a good half hour, I'll be over across the street. Come talk to me after you've had a good cleansing few lung fulls of smoke!"

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Much like the covid vaccines, the Sacklers and the FDA convinced not just patients, but Doctors that their special patented controlled release formula was non-addictive and had bogus studies to 'prove' it. Many patients did not realize it was an 'opiate', and even if they did, were assured by their doctors that studies proved this new formulation was safe and non-addictive.

[–]StillLessons 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If there is one thing I have learned over the past 10 years, it is that physicians hold absolutely undeserved esteem for their position in society. Doctors are the priests of the new "$cientism" religion that is obliterating centuries of social norms because "they are smarter than us, right?" This is just like people thought the priests in the Middle Ages were "the smartest guys in the room." Belief in some special knowledge possessed by doctors which means we should accord their opinions "expert" status is the root of a tremendous proportion of the suffering in the world today.

[–]STRAPONMONKEYDICK 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This world is in a very sad State when we have to sue drug dealers for God's sakes you're going to make the price of drugs go up then what

[–]IMissPorn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If I remember correctly OxyContin was marketed as non/less addictive, even though this was absolutely not true, and perhaps even worse, they tried to sell it as longer acting, which also wasn't true. So people would be prescribed two doses a day (IIRC), but when the effect inevitably started to wear thin between doses, doctors believed based on marketing that this meant the patient needed a higher dose.

Net result people were getting excessively high doses but not often enough to actually manage pain adequately. I'm not real clear on the psychology here, but apparently that's considered by some to be a prime situation to set up an addiction.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

They lied.
Half of everyone is stupider than average.
If the stupid are not protected, none of us are.

[–]Dregan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They first said their opioid product isn't addictive. They incentivized doctors to push it on patients knowing full well they would have costumers for life.

First tastes free...