Drug Rehab Q & A: Will Tamper-Resistant OxyContin Stop Addiction? No Way.
Will fewer people need drug rehab or drug detox when the new tamper-resistant painkillers come to market? I wonder if these new pills will come with a guarantee that you won’t become addicted and won’t need drug detox or drug rehab to get off them?
That’s an interesting concept but, most likely, it won’t work that way. While the new design may prevent the pills from being crushed and snorted, you don’t actually have to do that to get addicted. Taking the pills whole will do the job. And people who become addicted or dependent will still need drug detox and drug rehab.
Purdue Pharma wants to rush a new drug to market to beat out their competitors. Their pitch to the FDA will be that it will be a tamper-resistant pill that addicts can’t abuse. I don’t understand why the FDA would even listen to their pitch. One pitch they made to the FDA in the 90s has led to the greatest epidemic this nation has ever seen. I won’t believe what I read if anyone from the FDA gives the ok to Purdue. How can they believe Purdue when they say it is tamper-resistant? The last lie Purdue told cost them $634 million, the cost to the country has been far greater.
Drug rehab has become a growth industry since OxyContin was released. The owners of Purdue are very rich, though. I hope the door is slammed on Purdue - give the concession to someone else. One expert estimates the market for painkillers at $6.37 billion a year and growing. That’s up 52% since 2002 according to IMS Health Inc. And 10 billion doses of painkillers will be sold in the U. S. this year: and Purdue’s share is estimated at more than $1 billion per year.
Just last summer the top executives of this company were on trial for the lies they told. Purdue made billions offf those lies and the execs also made a pretty penny, and now they get to bring a “new, safer” design to the market. And they’ll make billions on that.
Drug detox for OxyContin dependence is the easiest and safest way to stop taking it. And if you’re addicted, you’ll need to follow that with a drug rehab program.
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Why would anyone listen to Purdue Pharma? They and Michael Friedman, Howard Udell and Paul Goldenheim are convicted criminals who pled guilty to misleading physicians and patients about the addiction qualities of OxyContin. Anyone curious as to why the FDA allowed this Holocaust of death and addiction to occur in every state? The FDA is as much to blame as Purdue Pharma for the destruction of human life. Stay tuned Tom Abrams — I am not going away and I will have accountability from you and the FDA. You are just as criminally involved as Purdue Pharma for allowing this destruction of human life.
Comment by Marianne Skolek — May 1, 2008 @ 3:24 am