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Re:Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid s... by api on Thursday June 27, 2024 @05:59PM (#40815620)
Wasn't Oxycontin kind of the boot loader for the present opioid crisis in that it mainstreamed opioid use and got a huge number of people introduced to it?

Then it was taken away and things like illicit fentanyl filled the gap, but that came later.

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Re:Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid s... by MavisBacon on Thursday June 27, 2024 @07:47PM (#40816424)
Indeed. At the undergrad college I went to in New England it wasn’t uncommon to see people at house parties doing lines of oxycontin out in the open. Was fairly socially acceptable.
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