glShemp
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Great article about Rush Limbaugh's favorite drug and the lying, greedy drug company behind it. Worth the read if you like to hate pharmaceutical companies.
http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/9/18/how-big-pharma-hooked-america-on-legal-heroin
Pull quote:
"There was a salient thread connecting all the OxyContin addicts I spoke with, and that’s how fast they all said it happens, how quickly they all became addicted, and how surprised they were at their physical dependence. Each of them recited a litany of opioid substances that they had abused in various combinations: Methadone, heroin, Diuladid, Percocet, Suboxone, Vicodin, and Morphine. They swallowed, snorted, shot, and free-based the pills, sometimes even mixing them with crack. But they all told me that the first opioid that really got them, the one that was easiest to get and gave the most powerful high, was OxyContin."
It takes some stones to claim that OxyContin has a less than 1% chance of causing addiction, but that's what the drug company said because it was packaged in a time-release pill. You have to believe that the scientists and doctors who developed OxyContin were not stupid. So they had to have known that the pills could be easily crushed into convenient freebase powder for the junkie's snorting pleasure. I think the drug company executives just fucking lied in order to promote this stuff for all kinds of pain, not just very serious illness like terminal illness. And I think those scumbags knew that the addicting nature of OxyContin would mean lots of sales and lots of profits. I'm offended by the whole idea that cannabis and magic mushrooms, in the eyes of the law, are the worst of the worst, schedule one, no legitimate use. And that people like us deserve to lose our freedom for daring the put these things into our bodies, which ironically, is my idea of freedom. Meanwhile the drug companies push this shit which is way worse than what I do, and it's all perfectly legal.
http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/9/18/how-big-pharma-hooked-america-on-legal-heroin
Pull quote:
"There was a salient thread connecting all the OxyContin addicts I spoke with, and that’s how fast they all said it happens, how quickly they all became addicted, and how surprised they were at their physical dependence. Each of them recited a litany of opioid substances that they had abused in various combinations: Methadone, heroin, Diuladid, Percocet, Suboxone, Vicodin, and Morphine. They swallowed, snorted, shot, and free-based the pills, sometimes even mixing them with crack. But they all told me that the first opioid that really got them, the one that was easiest to get and gave the most powerful high, was OxyContin."
It takes some stones to claim that OxyContin has a less than 1% chance of causing addiction, but that's what the drug company said because it was packaged in a time-release pill. You have to believe that the scientists and doctors who developed OxyContin were not stupid. So they had to have known that the pills could be easily crushed into convenient freebase powder for the junkie's snorting pleasure. I think the drug company executives just fucking lied in order to promote this stuff for all kinds of pain, not just very serious illness like terminal illness. And I think those scumbags knew that the addicting nature of OxyContin would mean lots of sales and lots of profits. I'm offended by the whole idea that cannabis and magic mushrooms, in the eyes of the law, are the worst of the worst, schedule one, no legitimate use. And that people like us deserve to lose our freedom for daring the put these things into our bodies, which ironically, is my idea of freedom. Meanwhile the drug companies push this shit which is way worse than what I do, and it's all perfectly legal.
