Hey gueyes, I looked into the origins of the opioid crisis
tiny 100-word research article helped start the deadly opioid crisis, Canadian study shows news.nationalpost.com/health/canadians-show-how-a-one-paragraph-research-article-helped-create-north-americas-opioid-crisis
It is so common that specialists even have a profile for the most typical victim: non-Hispanic Caucasian male, mid 30s. Initial diagnosis: back pain due to trauma, surgery or degenerative arthritis. And, most remarkably, average time from first prescription to time of overdose death: just 31 months. >When we reached recently retired (((Dr. Hershel Jick))), author of the oft-quoted “1% letter,” he was quick to point out that his statistic was misrepresented jewishnews.com/2016/05/12/doctors-must-lead-us-out-of-our-opioid-abuse-epidemic/
It was a pleasant, informative break from the grind for a crowd of local doctors: lunch and a series of lectures at Vancouver’s chic Four Seasons Hotel, all presented free by Purdue Pharma, which had just rolled out a new pain drug called OxyContin. >The specialists Purdue paid to speak at the 1997 forum, including Toronto’s Dr. Brian Goldman, who now hosts a popular CBC-Radio show, encouraged doctors to overcome fear of such “opioid” medicines and consider them even for patients with chronic non-cancer pain. Similar, Purdue-sponsored talks were held across the country in the following months and years, while sales reps fanned out to visit family doctors and others, promoting the drug’s continuous-release convenience and its supposedly low potential for abuse. news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-selling-of-oxycontin
In 1996, Purdue Pharma introduced OxyContin, a controlled release formulation of oxycodone.[65][66] The product has been a commercial success,[65] and since its introduction, >Purdue has earned more than $31 billion from OxyContin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycodone#History
>In 1952, the company was sold to two more doctors, Raymond and Mortimer Sackler, who relocated to the business to Yonkers, New York.
In May 2007, the company pleaded guilty to misleading the public about Oxycontin's risk of addiction, and agreed to pay $600 million in one of the largest pharmaceutical settlements in U.S. history. Its president, top lawyer, and former chief medical officer pleaded guilty as individuals to misbranding charges, a criminal violation, and agreed to pay a total of $34.5 million in fines.[11][12] Those executives are: Michael Friedman, the company’s president, who agreed to pay $19 million in fines; Howard R. Udell, its top lawyer, who agreed to pay $8 million; and Dr. Paul D. Goldenheim, its former medical director, who agreed to pay $7.5 million. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdue_Pharma
The son of Isaac and Sophie (née Greenberg) sackler Polish Jewish immigrant Brooklyn grocer, Mortimer attended Erasmus Hall High School in his native Brooklyn. Failing to get a Jewish-allotted place in any New York medical school, he sailed steerage to the UK in 1937 and, with the help of Glasgow's Jewish community, enrolled at Glasgow University Anderson College of Medicine.
From 1952 they turned Purdue Pharma into a large privately owned business with products including OxyContin. Using his fortune from pharmaceuticals he became a generous donor to charitable causes across the world. Jointly with his brothers he endowed the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Sackler
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So what's the TL;DR? (((Doctors))) are giving us white males opioids for pain relief hooking us on the thing?