I'm only thinking about this bc I just had surgery and I'm on oxy for the first time in 17 years, but, like...
Doctors really claim, like as a profession, that they just didn't know fucking opium was highly addictive and oopsie woopsie did a little fucky wucky and now like a million people are dead?
Cause I really never thought about that, but I took 1 "take 2 every four hours" pill SEVEN FUCKING HOURS AGO and I am still tripping balls and in my current altered state their cutesy little "We just forgot morphine was dangerous" shtick sounds pretty fucking ridiculous.
Oh and the DEA and FDA must have been in on this, too, right? The whole time? Because no one would actually be stupid enough to believe this shit, right?
McKinsey consulted for both Purdue Pharma and the FDA at the same time without disclosing their conflict of interest, and deliberately pushed the FDA to make changes beneficial to Purdue.
Oh my god source? That is the most capitalism. That is the peak. I want to know more.
The book "When McKinsey Comes to Town" has a section on Purdue. It's a great book for making you mad.