How bout charging the ceos of huge pharma companies who knowingly created super addictive drugs amd hire a cadre of pushers to coerce doctors to over prescribe
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Aww, those poor innocent doctors forced into accepting money and perks from the Big Pharma... Thoughts and prayers

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Ha ha truth! but the dr's are the lowest on the totem pole in this cartel. I want to see the real villians shoved in a cell
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And the the pharmaceutical company made out like bandits, and gave millions to their CEO for taking advantage of the public.
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I wouldn’t just blame the doctors. The patients themselves definitely wanted them and instead of swallowing them, used them crushed them in order to break the time release and get high.
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The kicker is that it was a highly addictive drug that is used for moderate to severe long term (chronic) cancer pain. It was being given for things as minor as minor back pain. Way way out of bounds for a drug like this.
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That’s true but pain management recommendations changed in the 90s. The medical community decided that people with chronic pain shouldn’t live in pain and that’s why access was expanded. When used the right way and at appropriate doses they usually don’t cause problems.
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Doctors were only allowed to prescribe it for cancer. Both the doctors and the Pharmaceutical company knew this. Regardless of the dosage, it was illegal and inappropriate.
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There is a big difference between oxycodone 5-10mg (Percocet) and oxycodone IR (30mg) and 40-80mg oxycodone ER (OxyContin). The low dose is a little stronger than codeine and the high dose is equivalent to the average $10 bag of street heroin and will produce intense euphoria.
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What i'm trying to get at though is they are all opiates. When a doctor chooses to needlessly prescribe medication to advance their bottom dollar, there needs to be consequences. Their medical license needs to be revoked, and they need to see time in jail.
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I agree 100%.
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Doctors are charged, big pharma just keeps on killing. OH YEAH, the *leading pharmaceutical lawmarkers* are retiring and becoming *lawyers* for the pharmaceutical companies. Is anyone else paying attention?https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1053420564776398849 …
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Maybe, just maybe those greedy docs shouldn’t accept Big Pharma’s money in the first place. They’re all on the take.
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That's the same arguememt used in immigrant laborers and street drugs; it's tried and failed time and time again. We arrest the users and pushers, but the large corporate entities/Organized Crime families rewarding this behavior go unchecked. Solutions only form at the top.
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Did u people read it? This was about doctors prescribing millions without a medical need.
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Big Pharma the real cartel
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I'm just unclear on why it took so long to figure this out. Don't we have checks and balances with prescriptions?
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Not really. Who should police? Insurance companies? Prob is pain mngt was a huge push a while back and pain is subjective and we don’t want pts to have any pain. You can’t tell what someone else feels. Pain mngt is tied to pt satisfaction scores. Bad cycle. Bad bad cycle.
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You are more of an expert, how would you fix it? Or another question, do you think kickbacks from drug manufacturers in any indirect way play a part?
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Well, those docs were clearly doing some shady stuff and seems like they knew it. I have some questions. Seems near impossible for “kickbacks” these days, but maybe the laws and regs I know are in my states? I’d like to know how they Rec’d kickbacks. Some states have sunshine
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Laws and anything over $5 to a doc or nurse has to be reported and is available online for anyone to look up. It’s a huge prob. I think it would be wise to have a national prescribing network that can be shared amongst pharmacies to track when meds are filled looking for frequent
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Filling of meds, new meds that may be harmful with other meds, etc. a lot of pts get Rxs at different pharmacies. A nat’l network would help with opioid rxs and also help the elderly or those on many meds to help keep pts safe from drug interactions. It would also help monitor
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Nice Answer. If I was the
@realDonaldtrump I might ask you to come help. I am just his satirical twin.
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