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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

meh I feel the patients should have decided what to take, if a doctor prescribes me oxycontin but I'm not really in that much pain I won't take it. I did take it before after a surgery when I had legit pain and it did help. Never finished all of em, it isn't addictive, maybe it is to people with weak minds.

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

There are many instances where children/teenagers/young adults who had no idea what pain killers even were (the marketing made it seem as if this was an extra strength Tylenol, especially with OxyContin, claiming for a period that it was non-addictive) and were still in school, received them when they shouldn’t have (like after a visit to the dentist for a filling or the removal of wisdom teeth), and young adults, teens and children can be moody, all in transitional stages of life that can be stressful - giving them a euphoric drug at this moment in life where there’s turmoil, changes and a lot going on emotionally, can create a life-long addict.

In fact, they noted this and wanted this to happen, as revealed in the court docs. They also planned to have a “monopoly” on opiate addiction (operation white blizzard), by both creating the drug, and the treatment for addiction to their drug (suboxone, which still provides euphoria), so they could keep their hooks in you forever as a customer (or slave), and if not, at least milk your addiction they manifested for all it’s worth.

[–]jet199 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Not weak minds, weak social support. This often is not something a person can help. Social isolation is the modern plague.

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_6506936