re: let's discuss this opioid issue in the USA

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Purdue Pharma is a scape goat.

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Practice Fusion began soliciting payments from Pharma Co. X in late 2013 in exchange for creating an physician alert designed to boost opioid prescriptions by suggesting doctors focus on assessing and treating a patient's pain symptoms with opioid medication as a preferred option.

Practice Fusion pitched the software as a way to influence doctors and counter the unnamed company's declining opioid sales, stemming from heightened public awareness of addiction risks, according to court documents.

The goals of the alerts was to create new opioid patients and convert current users from immediate-release opioid medications to highly addictive extended-release drugs, according to court documents.

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They may just be a cog in the wheel but they absolutely should shoulder some of the blame.

And I can’t even begin to talk about how devastating it’s been here in Kentucky. They shutdown a good chunk of the pill mills that were handing this shite to people hand over fist, on doctor’s orders. Dentist, pain management clinics, etc. If you talk to most people here in state who are addicts a good chunk started out by prescriptions given by doctors and moved right into heroin when they cut them off.