OXYCONTIN, ANYONE!?

[stuntmovie]

Inside an L.A. OxyContin ring that pushed more than 1 million pills. What the drugmaker knew

Although I’ve been fortunate enough to have met a good number of supplement company owners starting with the Weider brothers , Rheo H, Blair, Dr. Connelly, and through the present …. I’ve seldom ever purchased one or more of their products since many years ago.

But I have never had the opportunity to meet the owner nor any of the employees who are involved in the manufacturing of these supplements.

Nor have I been inside a GNC store except to inquire where the nearest men’s room was.

So I can’t tell anyone what does and does not work nor who makes what and what it’s made of nor what shelf it sits on in GNC.

BUT … this morning I read an article from the LA Times about an Oxicotin scheme that made a lot of doctors very wealthy

Wealth beyond their normal ‘paycheck’.

And it pissed me off!

So before you offer abycomments that will get me even more pissed, I gotta ack you to read the attached LA Times article.

Once that is done, please jump in and tell me …..

Who’s the biggest cuprit here.

Is it Dr. Santiago?

Is it the Purdue Chemicals owners? privately owned company which makes Oxicotin.

Or is it the US government due to it’s failure to regulate these bastards!?

The attached is a damn good read and I hope some of you more intelligent GetBiggers will offer your remarks.

A lot of you GetBiggers believe that the sup business gets away with ‘murder’ and this article just might give you some additional insight of why you think that way.

In my own personal opinion … the US government is allowing Pursue Chemicals to get away with ….. I can’t call it “murder” , but it’s just as reprehensible.

But that’s up for you to decide.

[Kim Jong Bob]

They helped alot pf people to become drug addicts and didnt give a shit

[Taffin]

Inside an L.A. OxyContin ring that pushed more than 1 million pills. What the drugmaker knew

So before you offer abycomments that will get me even more pissed, I gotta ack you to read the attached LA Times article.

Link please Stunt..?

[Mr Anabolic]

Doctors get kickbacks on EVERY drug they prescribe.  Every medical test and procedure as well (i.e. MRI, CAT scans, cancer treatments, etc.). It's a gigantic scam.  

I do my best to avoid doctors.  Given half a chance, they will kill you.

[Fortress]

Read the link, he says.

*no link*

 

[OB1]

Doctors get kickbacks on EVERY drug they prescribe.  Every medical test and procedure as well (i.e. MRI, CAT scans, cancer treatments, etc.). It's a gigantic scam.  

I do my best to avoid doctors.  Given half a chance, they will kill you.

QFT

But there are rare good doctors also.

[El Diablo Blanco]

Purdue knew for years what was happening and refused to report the doctor to the Feds.  They are the biggest crooks. They could have stopped the doctor in 2008 but let it happen for years because they made mass profit.  This doc wasn't getting kickbacks. This doc was supplier dealers who were selling it on the street and she was a drug queenpin

[Nether Animal]

Miss the days of those "green monster" 80s

[Country Guy]

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-oxycontin-part2/

Here it is...

[stuntmovie]

Thank you, CUY!

For some unknown reason, I could not post it this morning when I originated this topic.

I are dumb!

Sorry. FORTRESS!

BLANCO!! I AGREE TOTALLY with your above statement. Those owners at Purdue (a privatelfy owned company) should be held accountable  financially and pay billions or all the lives they ruined  and the
damage they caused by refusing to  take the necessary action when they discovered thaat there was a drug problem.

AND they should close that company down with force, but it's somewhat apparent that the FDA will not do so because  the FDA appears  to be too damn weak to do anything.

It's difficult for me to believe that they were unaware of the situation for so long a time -frame.

Plus the sentences are ridiculous.

[stuntmovie]

I'm a bit pissed off about this entire scam because a good friend whom some of you may have known and who most of you have heard mentioned on this Board if you are long time regulars ... died as a result of Oxycontin abuse.


And as KIM said erarlier ...... "They helped alot pf people to become drug addicts and didnt give a shit."

And these short term sentences seem to prove that no one still gives a shit!

[NaturalWonder83]

If u simply have no feelings or pretty much have no soul, then you can become quite rich

[El Diablo Blanco]

Opiates are so popular now that during the super bowl there was an ad for a drug to relieve opiate induced constipation.  How the hell doesn't the government see an issue with this?

[Zillotch]

Opiates are so popular now that during the super bowl there was an ad for a drug to relieve opiate induced constipation. 

Cause opiates are awesome.

[SaintAnger]

The draconian Federal sentencing guidelines imposed by Clinton to enslave the blacks are now bullseyed on the backs of Billy and Megan simply because there is no one left.  Goodbye ghettos, hello football sentencing for the trailer parks!

[Kim Jong Bob]

Cause opiates are awesome.

this until you get hooked

[Nether Animal]

this until you get hooked

Then they're even more awesome, until you run out...

[tommywishbone]

Loved the part where Purdue Pharmaceuticals was fined $635 million, AFTER they made $31 BILLION from the drug.  That will certainly teach them a lesson in morality.

[El Diablo Blanco]

Loved the part where Purdue Pharmaceuticals was fined $635 million, AFTER they made $31 BILLION from the drug.  That will certainly teach them a lesson in morality.

It's a tax write off.  They probably really made $28 billion, the other 3 was used to pay off politicians and the feds to look the other way.

[stuntmovie]

Yeah!  There's something fishy  here!

[_bruce_]

Hope Gronk lives to tell the tale...

[Disqus]

The world consists of predators and prey. The owners of a big pharmaceutical company like Perdue are very high up, almost near the top, of the food chain. The weak addicts who consume their harmful products are at the bottom of the food chain and do little more than fatten the predators above them who include everyone profiting from their weakness, including the government employees who are low level predators, but predators nonetheless. Focus on being a predator and not on how you can help the prey or you will be preyed upon yourself.

[Taffin]

Then they're even more awesome, until you run out...

Just be rich... 

[Kim Jong Bob]

Then they're even more awesome, until you run out...

  and when you get hold of more they are even more awesome until they run out

[El Diablo Blanco]

Yeah!  There's something fishy  here!

Not really.  Look at the history of fines to Big Pharma.  They are a small percentage of their profits.  Same with fines to big banks from the mortgage fiasco.