I recently watched Netflix painkiller. Each episode starts with a real victim of the drug OxyContin. It's based on real events. I highly recommend watching it. It is great in building awareness. We think of drug dealers on the streets but big pharma and the dealers in the white lab coats can be equally harmful if not more so.
Painkiller is the true story of the opioid crisis in the United States. Purdue Pharmaceuticals president Richard Sakler is described in wiki as "the worst drug dealers in history "and the Sakler family "most evil family in America ".
I have attached an article below in regards to the deception used when marketing pregabalin/Lyrica. Give it a read. It's along the same lines as the marketing of Oxytocin. This is the beginning of the article
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The Sydney Morning Herald
InvestigationNationalIllness
This was published 4 years ago
Lyrica, Pfizer, and how big pharma gets what it wants
By Liam Mannix
March 23, 2019 — 8.04pm
In 2011, few had heard of Pfizer’s nerve-pain pill Lyrica. It was mostly confined to specialist pain clinics, doses kept low to minimise nasty side-effects.
Eight years later, it is one of Australia’s most prescribed drugs. More than 4 million scripts for pregabalin, the drug’s generic name, were written in 2017-18, costing government and consumers more than $171 million.
That’s come with a huge toll. An investigation by The Age revealed Pfizer’s ‘safe, non-addictive’ nerve-pain pill was highly addictive, dangerous when taken with other drugs, and came with a range of nasty side-effects - including suicidal thoughts.
The drug has been linked to more than 250 drug overdose deaths and six suicides. More than 85,000 Australians are abusing pregabalin, according to one study. Concerned doctors are scrambling to deal with the fallout.
“Now everyone is on it for everything," says Professor Rachelle Buchbinder, a leading back pain doctor. "I spend my whole day taking people off "
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