I was a drug rep and know how pharma companies pushed opioids

Re:I was a drug rep and know how pharma companies pushed opi... by loopback_device on Sunday December 01, 2019 @05:20PM (#21678192)

I would argue that the obligation should rather lie in finding the cause of the pain, and working on fixing that, rather than fixing the symptoms

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Re:I was a drug rep and know how pharma companies pushed opi... by umvi on Sunday December 01, 2019 @05:35PM (#21678270)

My neighbor got addicted to opioids after he got in a motorcycle accident and broke many bones.

He eventually broke the addiction but said he was super grateful for opioids.

So, yeah... sometimes the source of the cause of pain is "multiple broken bones"

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Re:I was a drug rep and know how pharma companies pushed opi... by philwelch on Sunday December 01, 2019 @10:42PM (#21679650)

Have you ever been on call?

Imagine that you are on call, and you get paged for something, and there is no way to stop the page from going off even though you're aware of the issue and trying to resolve it.

You could also, if you'd like, imagine that your alarms were misconfigured and they were going off for literally no good reason, but there was no way to silence the mechanism that's paging you.

It's kind of like that.

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Re:I was a drug rep and know how pharma companies pushed opi... by lotsofpulp on Sunday December 01, 2019 @05:28PM (#21678234)

Suppose it takes time to figure out and fix the cause of the pain, or is impossible to find the cause and/or fix it.

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Re:I was a drug rep and know how pharma companies pushed opi... by perl4ever on Sunday December 01, 2019 @07:15PM (#21678783)

Terminal cancer sucks.

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