It’s no surprise that you get addicts when you push a “12-hour” painkiller that only lasts for around 6-8 hours
No, it works for 12 hours for most people. Meaning that a small bit sizable percentage would have been better off on the old kind. Which isn’t anything new in medical fields, it’s true for damn near every “extended release pill”.
But Sackler buried that, they would make way more off XR, so they wanted docs prescribing it as normal to everyone. Then the patients and the doctor could work it out on their own.
But a patient telling their doc their 12 hour opioid where’s off in 6 so they need more…
Sounds like an addict. So doctors wouldn’t and the patient had to turn to the streets. Or the doctor didn’t care and would give them multiple extra refills.
If you wanted to come up with a program scientifically designed to create opioid addicts…
You couldn’t do much better than this without giving people 5 gallon buckets of pills for a headache.
But the Sacklers are billionaires. So when they got sued the US government agreed that it wouldn’t be fair to allow their victims to touch any of the billions in personal wealth they got fucking over Americans, and definitely no jail.
Except for morphine, pretty much every opioid is just a chemical out body metabolizes into morphine
Only codeine and heroin have this as their primary mechanism of action I’m fairly sure? Oxycodone is active itself without metabolism, as are many other opioids.
Yes, metabolism will still make a difference though.
No, it works for 12 hours for most people. Meaning that a small bit sizable percentage would have been better off on the old kind. Which isn’t anything new in medical fields, it’s true for damn near every “extended release pill”.
But Sackler buried that, they would make way more off XR, so they wanted docs prescribing it as normal to everyone. Then the patients and the doctor could work it out on their own.
But a patient telling their doc their 12 hour opioid where’s off in 6 so they need more…
Sounds like an addict. So doctors wouldn’t and the patient had to turn to the streets. Or the doctor didn’t care and would give them multiple extra refills.
If you wanted to come up with a program scientifically designed to create opioid addicts…
You couldn’t do much better than this without giving people 5 gallon buckets of pills for a headache.
But the Sacklers are billionaires. So when they got sued the US government agreed that it wouldn’t be fair to allow their victims to touch any of the billions in personal wealth they got fucking over Americans, and definitely no jail.
There is a recent development that they and their billions might not actually be shielded:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-purdue-pharma-settlement-bankruptcy-sackler-family-oxycontin/
Only codeine and heroin have this as their primary mechanism of action I’m fairly sure? Oxycodone is active itself without metabolism, as are many other opioids.
Yes, metabolism will still make a difference though.