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Just a reminder that drug companies have been known to lie. Their job is to create profits for their share holders and they tend to do that at any cost.
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One of their most profitable market shares is creating lifestyle drugs. Drugs that aim to bring you a better quality of life that you rely on for long periods of time.
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The problem with lifestyle drugs is they often aren’t conducive to health. Some of these products can create dangerous side affects and create bigger problems than we had initially.
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Unfortunately, drug companies are so incredibly powerful that they are able to fund their way to the marketplace.
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It isn’t until one of their products has ripped hundreds of thousands of lives apart do we learn just how dangerous their product really was.
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Language is very important on drug labeling. It’s argued over for long periods of time before settled upon.
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FDA Approved Label Included Details About Addiction Risk for opioids.
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OxyContin.
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“Iatrogenic ‘addiction’ to opioids legitimately used in the management of pain is very rare. ‘Drug seeking’ behavior is very common to addicts.”

“Taking broken, chewed or crushed OxyContin Tablets could lead to the rapid release and absorption of a potentially toxic dose of oxycodone.”

“Oxycodone products are common targets for both drug abusers and drug addicts.”

“OxyContin is a mu-agonist opioid with an abuse liability similar to morphine.”

“Delayed absorption, as provided by OxyContin tablets, is believed to reduce the abuse liability of a drug.”
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ORIGINAL OXYCONTIN PACKAGE INSERT, DECEMBER 8, 1995.
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I think we can all probably agree now that OxyCotin addiction wasn’t “very rare”.
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“Oxycontin was removed from the market when an abuse-resistant form became available, but that was done at the behest of manufacturer Purdue Pharma, not at the FDA’s request”.-Forbes 2017
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The FDA never protected us and they never will.
It’s just not set up to do that. It only creates the illusion that it does.
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