/----/ I was a Pharma rep for Janssen who developed Fentanyl. I understand what is going on and yes Doctors over prescribe pain killers the way they over prescribed antibiotics for the common cold./----/ You never mentioned Oxy, but I understand your need to modify your original post./----/ I didn't change subjects. I offered a solution to regulating guns. You just don't' like your agenda being exposed. But since you brought it up, what does Big Pharam and doctors have to do with people using abusing? I went to doctors my entire life and not one ever suggested I start snorting cocaine. Maybe your doctor did./——/ Maybe we can regulated guns the way we regulate opioids. There were only 63,000 opioid deaths in 2016. Yeah that’s the ticket.
Your weak subject change and comparison aside - Perhaps you should talk to big pharma and the doctors who enabled them. A VERY small percentage of that crap was brought over by Mexican rapists.
Now your comparing prescriptions for Oxycontin to prescriptions for cocaine? Man - that's a stretch!
Prescription Addiction: Big Pharma and the Opioid Epidemic
LoL - and doctors don't subscribe the other crap as well?
Pharmaceutical companies took advantage of this concern. Through a big marketing campaign, they got doctors to prescribe products like OxyContin and Percocet in droves — even though the evidence for opioids treating long-term, chronic pain is very weak(despite their effectiveness for short-term, acute pain), while the evidence that opioids cause harm in the long term is very strong.
In one year, drug overdoses killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War did