This... Dr were involved too!
> long term pain management opioids suck
Opioids suck. And the medical profession was complicit. For a class that is supposed to be professional and well informed most Dr's are, shockingly, not that bright.
The actions of individual Doctors acting on their own simply don’t explain trends.
Doctors and the FDA etc were straight up lied to. I don’t think it’s reasonable to hold Doctors accountable for when some pharmaceutical company commits fraud. That doesn’t mean every doctor was blameless, but individual Doctors have always behaved poorly it was true before the opioid epidemic and it’s still true today.
Oh please.
Doctors, did not believe the preponderance of evidence that ulcers were caused by bacteria. The reason, the person who discovered it was a vet.
They had to give the man a Nobel Prize to get Dr's to pry their heads out of their self aggrandizing asses and pay attention to reality.
Opioids were addictive. They never stoped being that. Dr's were fiscally motivated to prescribe. Nothing more nothing less.
You’re wildly incorrect, nobody involved was a vet.
Barry Marshall shared that Nobel and is a Doctor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall
Robin Warren received his M.B.B.S. an undergraduate degree focused on medical research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Warren He worked at: “SA Pathology, (formerly the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science (IMVS)), is an organisation providing diagnostic and clinical pathology services throughout South Australia for the public health sector.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA_Pathology
So whatever source you read that misinformation from is not trustworthy.
> Opioids where addictive
Hindsight bias here. We don’t want medical professionals to discard new information in favor of older treatments. There’s no way doctors can on their own replicate the medical research linking Ulcers with a bacterial infection and independently judge oxycodone’s effectiveness, and a dozen other drugs etc. Extended-release (ER) oxycodone was literally a new drug and described as not having the same issues associated with other Opioids on labeling approved by the FDA.
The crazy thing is how effective this all was. Medical schools were teaching students to hand out more opioids.
The doctors, all college educated, some of our most studied and intelligent citizens, they knew about the history of opiates and im not talking about the dare campaign. I knew before the epidemic even got into force when I tossed the opiates I was prescribed in the trashcan.
The oxy marketing was just the wink and the nod everybody needed to convince themselves to parrot with a straight face, but they didn't actually really believe it.
The Opium Wars were a cynical prototype for the modern war on drugs, which was initiated with similar designs and outcomes.