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Seems like a person problem to me... providers over prescribing the drugs and patients that do not take the minimum required to address the ailment.
Are we ready to start holding Anheuser Bush responsible for DWIs? Better yet, how about Chevrolet.. I mean after all, they make the cars that are driven by the drunk. Just thinking out loud really.
I think it really shows how the FDA is broken as well. It also begs the question how providers are not somehow held at least partially responsible. It is a tough sell to say it is fully the manufacturers fault. At what point do you hold the patient responsible for telling their provider that they are finding it difficult to go without the pill?
Drug makers all play the games with physicians... they bring in lunch weekly for the offices, give them samples to give away, etc... all in the name of trying to get the physicians to prescribe their medications. Isn't that just business sense? Is pharmaceuticals the only industry where that is deemed "wrong"?
Thankfully.
Doctors are over-prescribing, but drug companies use extreme lobbying and their push into healthcare facilities to make sure their drugs can be easily acquired - which leads to greater sales.
USA with 5 percent of world's population uses 80 percent of pharmaceutical opioids.
Link: https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2016/12/20/with-little-proof-drugmakers-push-solution-to-opioid-epidemic-they-helped-create/
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which a story is presented is therefore taking the entire subject of opioid abuse lightly and directly minimizing the issues of your particular friends, and mine, with addiction issues.
That would also be an ill-conceived assumption... but, hey, it's still relatively a free country...run with it.
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