On a side note, he has a huge fan base and many people love him for his role in F.R.I.E.N.D.S,
yea I’m waiting for the toxicology reports to come out and the inevitable blaming of doctors and pharma companies rather than blaming addiction/drug addicts
It’s wild how in any media or social media all the lynch mob wants is doctor/pharma blood whenever someone famous dies of an illicit fentanyl OD. Or on a smaller scale when ever anyone dies basically. However when the problem turns to homelessness, crime, gang activity and everything else bundled up into the black market ecosystem the public wants to just rounds up and exterminate drug addicts.
These two approaches are so inconsistent as to assigning blames and it just shows that humans are nasty little buggers that just want to slander and assign blame or be angry and everyone from the biggest pharma company on earth to the poorest drug user on the street
I get that addiction is a disease but it’s not quite the same as having cancer. People make decisions. The public seems to have lost that completely and there’s this rabid obsession with the sackler family in particular
Purdues whose patents on oxycodone expired and they stopped being the majors sellers of oxy in view of generic manufactures….
so long before the alleged “opioid epidemic”. Which didn’t even become an epidemic until opioids were essentially banned from clinic use. You can see here that it was pretty steady all the way until the CDC release guidelines in concert when the DEAs war on pain management in 2016 caused a massive vertical spike in death right after 2016 once fentanyl instantly replaced oxy
This lynch mob mentality looking for someone (pharma/doctors/pharmacists) to blame all this on is a gross and pathetic reaction and has only worsened the problem and the worse it gets the more people want to blame a drug company for 30 years ago allegedly tricking doctors into thinking a CII drug, defined as having a high risk for abuse; did not have a high risk for abuse.
Ppl have it in their head that sales reps with zero medical expertise tricked MDs into ignorning a CII drug classification and whenever someone dies all the blame gets thrown at this pathetic scapegoat which I’m sad to say the public is dumb enough to believe. It’s so frustrating.
I don’t want to say the blame lies with the addict because that sounds harsh…but I think it’s the truth if there is anyone to blame in any of these situations it’s people made a choice to continue down this road rather than face the harshness of living without abusing drugs.
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