There was an LA Times investigation of Oxycontin and Purdue Pharma’s behavior in introducing that pill, which is at the very heart of the opioid epidemic. Certainly there are a lot of people in physical and emotional pain who are also seeking relief, but they are “assisted” by a pill formulation that is specifically, in a word, evil.
The basic outline of the story is that Purdue Pharma had a morphine formulation going off patent and they were shall we say eager to replace that product with another.
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