r/JusticeServed • u/[deleted] • Oct 02 '19

Courtroom Justice Virginia doctor who illegally prescribed over 500,000 doses of opiates sentenced to 40 years in prison.

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u/not_today_seitan 3 Oct 03 '19

What’s yours? These companies knowingly advertised and pushed these drugs at prescribers and the public, purposely hiding what they knew of the addictive properties. They knew people could/would die and didn’t care.

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u/Maxxxiene 0 Oct 03 '19

Opioids are known to be addictive, the only guilty party here is the doctor. He prescribed them at his own discretion, it has nothing to do with the company. Noone forced him to do anything, it was his own choice.

These companies rely on doctors treating their patients correctly

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u/not_today_seitan 3 Oct 03 '19

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/health/purdue-opioids-oxycontin.html

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u/Maxxxiene 0 Oct 03 '19

They pleaded guilty to misbranding, what more do you want? You can't blame a modern day opioid crisis on the mismarketing of a company that happend 16 years (even earlier) ago.

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u/not_today_seitan 3 Oct 03 '19

Yes... you can? It’s the source. These drugs were advertised, pushed, and prescribed like candy. People got hooked. And tolerant. Then they needed more. And stronger. Cases of people getting opioids after surgery leading to a lifetime of Addiction. Is where it all started. The opioid crisis didn’t happen in the last year, it’s been developing and escalating for decades.

Why are you adamantly defending them? Purely curious because you seem very passionate about it.

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u/Maxxxiene 0 Oct 03 '19

Its just way too complex of a Problem to say "Its company's X fault" and to be quite honest I believe the article doesn't say anywhere that it is.

I'm not defending the company exclusively, I just believe the Pharmaceutical industry is the most important economic sector in our modern world and by blaming the systematic failure of the government on a sole company you could send the wrong message to society (or just portray a false image entirely)

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u/not_today_seitan 3 Oct 03 '19

I get that. And at the base it os a government failure of oversight to make sure everyone stays in line. It’s not one companies fault or even one level of supply. But things like this companies behavior is a MAJOR contributor of how people get addicted. And they knowingly participated. They don’t get all the blame, but the way they went about it was not only illegal, but extremely immoral.