Former Pharmaceutical Rep Details How Oxycontin Took Over

NOONE SHOULD BE SURPRISED BY HEARING THIS. WHEN BIG MONEY IS INVOLVED MISCREANT PEOPLE WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO KEEP OR OBTAIN MORE OF IT. PEOPLE SHOULD ALWAYS DO THEIR OWN RESEARCH RATHER THEN BEING WILLFULLY OBTUSE AND JUST BELIEVING WHATEVER ANYONE TELLS YOU. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH VERIFYING WHAT SOMEONE IS TELLING YOU ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR HEALTH, FINANCES AND SECURITY. THERE ARE NO DRUGS THAT FIX ANY PROBLEMS. THEY JUST MASK OR CREATE MORE OF THEM ✌🏽♥️

There is no one more fucking evil than the people in big pharma.

After my hip’s replacements..yes plural..they tried to shove these at me and I told them literally “go F yourselves “ I’ll live with pain before I take those

I am only getting 40mg to take 3x a day. Mere 120mg/day and 3x 8mg Dilaudid. If it wasn't for babies, my cracked spine into the nerves wouldn't effect me as it does. Hard to push past the pain with only 120mg oxycontin and 24mg of hydromorphone a day :(

Yt plp have always been so he biggest drug dealers in the world

But yt plp blame the cartels

The story he is referring to was on American greed about the two doctors in Alabama that were running a pill mill prescribing opioids.

It's ridiculous how hard it is to get pain meds from your doctor these days . Everyone abusing them fucking ruined it for people who need them . There's nothing wrong with prescribing oxycodone, morphine , or dilaudid for people who need them those drugs are safe and effective. I think if people didn't have to be in contracts and weren't stigmatized so badly from their doctors . Then there would be less people turning to the street for fentanyl and that equates to less overdoses. It's just got so bad that people can't even go to their Dr anymore and that forces their hand to turn to the streets . Doctor's are supposed to be there to help people not push them away . A doctor should be able to write a script for an opiate without two fucks given . It's gotten ridiculous.

Isn’t the speaker conflating hydrocodone with oxycodone when he talks about the original formula? I realize they are very similar, but I didn’t know Purdue owned rights to hydrocodone/Norco, but instead oxycodone / Percocet….

Over $40 billion USD in settlements with companies selling opioids and killing over 1 million Americans. Where did the money go?
- $26 billion national settlement with Johnson & Johnson, AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson.
- $7.4 billion national settlement with Purdue Pharma and Sackler family
- $5.27 billion agreements with Allergan and Teva to settle allegations that the manufacturers contributed to the opioid crisis.
- $3.1 billion national settlement with Walmart to resolve allegations that the company contributed to the opioid addiction crisis.
- $1.4 billion settlement between Kroger Co. and 30 states to settle allegations the company contributed to the opioid crisis.
- $350 million national settlement with Publicis, a marketing company, to resolve allegations that the company’s marketing strategies for companies like Purdue Pharma contributed to the opioid crisis.
- $219 million agreement for Indiana with CVS and Walgreens to settle allegations against the two pharmacies that they contributed to the opioid crisis through their conduct in the distribution and dispensing of prescription drugs.

I remember wheeling a patient to the front of the hospital for discharge as the distraught adult son related that their parent was now addicted. The doctor ran a pain clinic on neurology floor and prescribed pain meds like candy. That's when hospitals came up with the idea of pain being a vital sign. No wonder. I see that whole interconnected web of evil now. How many had to die for that b.s. Hundreds of thousands? Millions?

The Sackler family. That fits the narrative.

I remember a video done by coldfuison that they new and morphine is another one but am on mst but it works for me

Zyprexa made me walk in to walls, piss in corners.......

I can’t take pain pills as they make me sick. Thank God I know they see extremely addictive

And yet....they are free....hardly a slap on the wrist....justice for the rich...

My DR told me theyvwerent addictive and swapped me from hydros to OC 40s 😂
ruined my life 😔

John D Rockefeller processed crude oil and the product was used by his father mr Rockefeller to sell his pharmaceuticals prescribed by medical Drs who were trained in medical schools founded by dad mr Rockefeller.

That golden ticket ruined my life. I knew morphine was dangerous so I never touched it but oc was just a really good hydro n it didn't take long for my life as I knew it to be over . I'm greatful I got off it n it took years for me to get back to getting sober n being the real me .but so many of my friends r dead or now on heroin 😢all because of rich people only getting richer from not telling the truth 😢

I was addicted to prescription painkillers for a couple of years. OxyContin was the drug that got me hooked * Heroin in a pill* 1 OC-80=16 Percocet’s minus the Tylenol. Fortunately I never graduated to injecting Heroin because I didn’t like needles. I’ve been clean for over 10 years, but many of my friends,family, and acquaintances died from Oxy/Heroin overdose’s. The Sackler’s should be in jail for the damage they deliberately caused !!

Goton a class action against Purdue pharma, 6 months later the attorneys acts as if we're now the defendants and wants my signature to sign off of the suit

I was young physician at the time. Employed by a hospital, the CDC pushed the entire health care industry that we had to believe any patients pain and provide whatever they need to relieve their pain.
We were told. Believe all patients and give them what they need
If we didn’t, patients would complain to the hospital and we would literally get a phone call from an administrator.
Our group of approximately 75 PCPs under employment contracts were forced to do it
And we knew that all these patients were addicted and just coming in for fake back pain and injuries to get OxyContin

No more “perks” given to doctors from the pharmaceutical companies!

This is true, I was an RN for years and saw this Valium, Oxy, etc etc push push push it is no wonder they created so many addicts! Evil sheer evil!

Look up the drug (Volmax 4mg & 8mg) the biggest bomb in treating asthma in (1995).

(Newsweek) called it the most dangerous drug because of the side-effects. I worked as a pharmaceutical rep, in asthma, and respiratory medications for six plus years in the 90's. Where the budget for taking out your big doctors was a widespread practice.

The company purchased it from (Glaxo) within the European markets. The entire sales force couldn't get any physicians to write for it, for they knew it was both an outdated-form-of-therapy, and (Glaxo) had just released the asthma drug (Serevent) the first long-acting-beta-two-agonist in the inhaled form. Not in the the systemic or pill form.

I spoke out to the managers, trainers, the executive branch, and other members of this company that this drug (Volmax) was never going to do anything, since I was calling all the (Teaching Hospitals in my Region), and they were not on board. Keep in mind I have server asthma since I was born, I know more about asthma than any of these dipshits. I know the medications, the treatments, inside & out, and they couldn't handle the truth.

All I received was you have a bad/negative attitude, from authority figures that had zero understanding of how asthma is treated. I was up against a bunch of (sleazy car salesman), who didn't have a clue on the medical protocols).

The were useless, with an overdose of male testosterone of pure vapidness. What are they doing today? Selling fucking real estate or cars.

I was put on the demoted list, casted out to dry, and I eventually departed from this company for making inept decisions.

While the company witnessed massive low or zero sales nationally and made each pharmaceutical rep the scape goat. It became a race to the bottom.

A company who at one time had excellent medications in asthma, cough, & cold pharmaceuticals, did make a difference. Especially with one of their groundbreaking oral steroids (15mg/5mg for pediatric asthma). I was in the this for the knowledge not the money.

Net Effect:

I took my gold clock, and walked away, while the owner gave me full benefits giving me a golden ticket that was unexpected with my exit with money & unemployment insurance. I did not realize until four years later with the (Social Security branch office in Los Angeles California) informed me that there was some money just sitting here to accept.

Everything I predicted came true. The company folded and fired each drug rep on the spot a few years later.

Next time, follow your instincts, with the facts.

Ignore the group think.

Oxy's came right after invasion of Afghanistan

I'll tell you how it took over n I just clicked on.. they over prescribed a very strong very addictive pain killer.. the shit makes you feel great.. didn't kill you as fast as fentanyl so they stopped writing it

I tried so much crazy shit to get off opioids smh
Sucks I had to figure out what worked on my own by trial and error.
They REALLY need more support when it comes to getting and staying clean.

Anyone with a brain knows the Oxycontin delivery system is easily broken

Joe at one point I was going to two different doctors and they were giving me 1000 pills per month 500 per doctor and they would literally give you whatever you wanted my doctors wife overdosed and drowned in the bathroom tub at the doctors home they were only taking cash for the appointment 350 per visit and they literally had garbage cans full of cash it was the worse part of my life it was a nightmare

I would go to the Dr and it would take so long because so many drug reps would come into the office . They’d bring food and gifts . They used to give $10. Coupons for OxyContin. I wish I held on to at least one of them for memories.

I would love to see these men in jail!

I walked into the doctor when I was 18 an told em my back hurt an no questions asked was prescribed 120 Norcos. So glad I'm past that phase of my life 🙌

It really did I have some

The expiring patent was for MSContin, Morphine Sulfate with their Contin-uous release system. Not HyrdocodoneContin

:30 second mark, Does he think indicted is pronounced as inicated?

Well I hate to admit it but, I'm impressed🚴🏼‍♀️

I remember "un pealing" the orange coating layer off of the 40 OC [original formula], and grinding it to a fine white powdr. It was pure and so addictive. Snorting half a 40 was stronger and better than exact of heroin. It got bad and I was paying 30 to 40 dollars for 40 OC pill. 40 oc snorted throughout the day kept me active and nodding at night. So addictive! Pure heaven or pure hell. Suboxone got me clean

Where's the full episode??? It's missing.

If 90 percent or even 50 percent of cops were actually trying to do good then they wouldn't constantly look the other way or lie to protect their buddies who are abusing their power and authority

I've loved oxy since I was 9 😂 I had bad migraines as a kid and my stepdad and my aunt both had scripts and they were told it was great for migraines so they give me one of those, at first it just helped me sleep but shortly after I realized it made me feel better before I fell asleep too so I'd start faking the migraines just to get another pill as a 10 year old and I didn't have a bed so I didn't mind sleeping on the floor though

And they are J 👈🤫🙈🙉🙊

But they want us that Mexicans are the real cartels. Got it!!

Sackler family runs Lilly now. They didn't go anywhere just changed names.

he never answered the question!

I think the morman family it was the husband that had the addiction (but i could be wrong).

These doctors KNEW what they were doing. It's not just on the pharmaceuticals. In my addict days, we would all ride to Miami together and go doctor shopping. These weren't doctor offices, they were fortified compounds. Like... pawn shops in the ghetto. Bars on windows, armed security, 200 cars in parking lot, had to get buzzed in etc. $500 in 2008 per visit, cash only. Doing a patient every 5 minutes. It was literally a factory line pill mill. We were 19-20 year olds getting 120 - 30 mg oxycodones and 125 - 2mg Xanax. Insane. The fake MRI place was RIGHT next door in a portable trailer. They'd put a pillow under your back, take the MRI and it would distort the vertebrae. $400 for that. Then the pharmacy was down the road who was getting kickbacks for doc referring everyone there. $1,200-1,500 out of pocket for the pills. They wouldn't bat an eye, would barely even ID you. Nowadays, there's a state database and all that, but not back then.

I don't get why they even give painkillers for tooth extractions and what not. I had EVERY one of my teeth removed and didn't even feel the need for ibuprofen after the first day or two. You're just swollen. It doesn't really "hurt."