Big Pharma's Role in the Opioid Crisis

Taken from JRE #1756 w/John Abramson:

[TheDrifter]

If your doctor offers pills before he asks what you eat, how you sleep and how you exercise. You have a drug dealer not a doctor

[sliimbambino]

The impact of Big Pharma on this country is one that outweighs any pandemic, epidemic, financial crisis, etc imo.

I’ve lost almost 2 dozen people to drugs like fentanyl that are applied, to this day, for people in pain and only looking for a way out of that pain. Not a further dig into it.

It’ll never make sense to me, outside of the obvious of money itself, how as we approach 2022 we seem to have made zero progress in curbing BP’s severely negative impact on our country.

[erinc]

This is what infuriates me when we're told the covid vaccine was FDA approved. So was oxycontin and all these other opioids! Just because something's been approved doesn't mean it's good for you!

[cooperstevens]

what i love about this podcast is that he's now giving a platform to these people who have an important message. its an inspiring act. THANK YOU JOE

[topsecretbear]

"Healthcare" has been turned into a business. It is no longer about helping or healing people, it is all about making money. This also applies to other things that have been turned into businesses.

[indiablackwell]

I love how Pharma was so "clueless" about the opioid crisis yet are so concerned about people getting covid

[wzupppp]

Its simple, keeping people sick is their business model. You dont have to be smart to figure that out

[mikescheriff]

Knew pharma salespeople over the years and the amount of "gifts" handed to doctors were pretty darn impressive. Trips, ballgames, broadway shows, top restaurants etc etc

[billiamc]

The most alarming aspect of all this is how so many still think doctors, Pharma, and our elected officials actually care about us yet how many die or go bankrupt from lack or healthcare?

[billiondollardan]

I'm a dentist. The drugs I prescribe are for three things mostly: 1. pain 2. Infection 3. Inflammation. In school they taught us to give 24 tabs of hydrocodone/apap for a simple extraction. They taught us this stuff because the pharmaceutical companies blinded them to the danger of opiates. Many of us now write the bare minimum of the lowest dose for people and we don't get any more complaints about pain than we used to when we dumped the stuff on patients. Sometimes we give no pain meds at all

[quadmft]

Dope sick on Hulu with Michael Keaton is a must watch!!!

[julier]

I was surprised when this guy recommended that children still get the covid vaccine after hearing all of his criticism aimed towards the very same pharmaceutical companies he testified against

[hyperqprime]

I was in high school when the oxycontins hit my town in 2001. I lost a few great friends and more than a few good years of my life to opiates. I feel like a wounded soldier sometimes.

[Trump..]

I’m a survivor of the opioid epidemic, can 1000% confirm this

[dustinsantiago]

5 years clean off of opiates. Started with oxycodone and developed into an IV heroin addiction. And we used to get prescriptions like candy in the late aughts (08-11). This stuff will take over your life and run you into the ground. Grateful to get out of that life but I watch new people I know die on an almost weekly basis, especially working in the treatment field now. Big pharma played a massive role and no one talks about it. Stay safe out there people, much love. 💪🏼🙏🏼❤️

[aestheticalrose]

The whole “Oxy Express” happened to my dad, except he was smart enough to see through it thank God because an Oxy addiction is the last thing he needs. He went to the hospital because he hurt he leg and instead of helping him, the hospital just told him to go down to the pharmacy and get a prescription. My dad was like “No, that’s not a fix, that’s a bandaid, I want to know what’s wrong with my leg.”

Come to find out he’d screwed up his hip and because every doctor he went to didn’t want to look into it for years and wanted to just give him pain meds, it just got worse and worse and now he’s in chronic pain and now that we know it’s his hip because we finally got a good doctor, he’s not a good candidate for surgery because of his age and health. So he has to live with the chronic pain for the rest of his life and he’s to the point that he can barely walk. If the doctors had just looked into it instead of trying to shove pills down his throat, he’d be in good health today and it’s pisses me off royally.

[Liz-dragon-street.]

Joe Rogan and Russel Brand
The voices in the world we need right now!
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[jaimeescobar]

I had no physical pain just serious emotional pain but when I would take/snort a 30 literally just numbed any pain I was feeling and it seemed like “I’ll be okay I can get threw this” I lost my son and when he died I went down a crazy road and when I stumbled on roxys it was the only thing that numbed that pain of loss. But eventually that lead to heroin I’m a couple months sober from opioids but it scary how sometimes it’s like the sensation re emerges and I miss it. But I know what that road brings. To anyone dealing with addiction man just hang in there try and find your reason to get sober and if you don’t have one just yet try an find it. The tornado of problems I brought upon other people is insane and I wish I would of never been so selfish and got off it quicker.

[jopo]

John "Opioids are just the tip of the spear"
Joe "Wanna see an Orangutan fishing with a spear?"
John "What? No, I just meant that...."
Joe "Jamie, pull up the spearfishing Orangutan for John"

[rudymurillo]

10 years ago I had multiple fractures in my wrist. I had a good enough surgeon and physical therapists to warned me how easy it is to get addicted and it actually didn’t help with recovery at all. I spent 3 months post op feeling like zombie. Then I just went off cold turkey. It was really horrible how painful it was but after a month or so, my body had a higher threshold for pain. I’m not saying I will never take pain meds, but I will never rely on pain meds.