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Friends who love to watch American dramas must know that in the United States, drug addiction is not a very unusual thing.
In the movie "Soul Shifter", there is a clip of Angelina Jolie leaving the healing medicine as a medicine.
According to data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of deaths from drug overdose in the United States has surged by nearly 30% compared with last year.
Some experts said that "opioid addiction" is the largest public health crisis in the history of the United States, and more than 2 million Americans rely on or abuse opioid prescription painkillers and du products.
U.S. President Joe Biden also mentioned in a statement that "today, new data show that our country has reached a tragic milestone: from April last year to April this year, more than 100,000 people died of drug overdose..."
It can be seen that drug addiction in the United States is a long-standing thing, and behind this incident, it hides the crazy pursuit of capitalist interests without morality...
Today's "Addiction Dose" analyzes the "opioid crisis" brought by OxyContin to the United States from the inside out.
Addiction Dose
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"Addiction Dose" is based on Beth Macy's best-selling book of the same name and comes from real events. The whole drama has a total of 8 episodes, and has scored a high score of 9.2 on Douban.
Michael Keaton plays the old-school doctor Samuel Fenix, who treats his job with kindness and compassion, but finds himself caught up in the deadly secrets of Big Pharma.
In 1986, Richard of the Sackler family proposed at a family meeting that the nature of pain should be redefined, arguing that the United States had long ignored the existence of chronic pain and brought unnecessary suffering to the people.
Pain deprives people of the ability to think normally and makes it impossible for people to live their true selves.
To say so grandly, he was just laying the groundwork for the launch of OxyContin.
Because at this time, the MeschCording patent, which accounts for 25% of the sales ratio of Purdue Pharmaceutical (Sackler family business), is about to expire, and once the Merccontin is discontinued, it will bring a major blow to the company's revenue.
To that end, Richard's solution was to create a new opioid painkiller designed for the long-term use of moderate pain.
But at this point, the question was raised: I had never seen a doctor prescribe opioid painkillers to patients with long-term pain.
Richard's father said a very classic sentence at this time: Don't chase the market in a vacuum, create the market.
How terrible, in the eyes of the capitalists, the weakness of human nature has become a tool for them to amass wealth.
The timeline shifts to 2005, when three justice-minded prosecutors are pursuing the evils behind Oscontin.
The whole drama is interpolated to show how the three prosecutors overcame many difficulties to combat purdue medicine's criminal behavior.
At the same time, with some examples of ordinary people, it tells how Oscondine has destroyed the entire American society during these two decades.
In 1995, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved OxyContin's marketing application, and all the evil began.
In order to successfully promote the drug in the market, Richard and his team extremely despicablely put "the drug is not addictive" on the drug label.
This is also the first time that the Food and Drug Administration has labeled secondary narcotic drugs as non-addictive.
At the same time, "less than 1% of people are addicted to drugs" has also become the slogan of OxyContin.
Naturally, a drug that treats pain so well and is "not addictive" has been praised by doctors and patients as soon as it was launched.
After all, no matter which part of the pain, you can use this "miracle drug", such as headaches, toothaches, joint pain, etc., but any pain you can think of, you can use OxyContin.
Purdue started with the first pilots in poor, hard-working areas, where residents are often injured and there is a high demand for painkillers.
In order to make the rural doctors trust the drug, the medical representative first proposed to the doctors to give the patient a 10mg dose of OxyContin at a time.
But a 10 mg at a time is simply not enough to last 12 hours, and at night, the patient is tormented by pain.
In this regard, the statement given by Purdue Group is: sudden pain (Purdue Group made up blindly in order to sell drugs).
The way to alleviate "sudden pain" is very simple, that is, increase the amount, 10mg is not enough to eat 20mg, 20mg is not enough to eat 40mg.
If you take a dose of 40 mg at a time, but the pain continues, what will happen?
As a consequence, you will become addicted to drugs.
In order to make patients addicted to OxyContin faster, Purdue Pharmaceutical has continuously increased the dose of the drug, from the beginning of a tablet of 10mg, but the back of a tablet of 160mg, it can be said that Purdue Pharma in order to make money has been mad.
In the course of the investigation by the three prosecutors, it was found that in recent years, many cases have been related to Oscondine, illegal robbery, abandonment of children, theft and so on.
All kinds of deeds show that OxyContin is by no means a safe drug, and it simply cannot appear on the list of drugs that doctors can prescribe at will.
But Purdue Group has the right to speak, they have infiltrated the definition of "not addictive" in AuschContin, network public opinion, hospital brochures... There is no escape.
In the play, an "example" was given to the audience, in the course of the investigation, a prosecutor was hospitalized because of poor health, and when he was unconscious after the operation, the doctor "forcibly" recommended OxyContin to him.
But because he understood the nature of OxyContin, he firmly refused.
If you think about ordinary people, who simply do not understand the seriousness of opioid addiction, coupled with the recommendations and assurances of doctors and nurses, it is easy to have the illusion that "OxyContin is safe".
This is true of the prosecutors who are investigating the case, not to mention what happens to ordinary people.
Hard-working, simple-minded Bass, her only wish is to earn enough money to leave the mine and move far away to live with her beloved. But in an accident, she suffered a back injury, and after the doctor Semmel prescribed OxyContin for her, her entire life trajectory changed.
She would steal her mother's ancestral jewelry and sell it for money, and she would choose to sleep with the pawnshop owner in order to make an extra 30 yuan...
If beth's depravity is reasonable, then the depravity of the kind country doctor, Seymour, can be called a horror movie.
He was originally a good doctor with great love, because his wife died of cancer, because he had watched her suffer from illness, so he especially hoped that he could do something for the patients who were in pain.
It was such a good doctor, after a car accident, because of the pain of taking OxyContin, but also addicted to drugs, he began to live a muddy life, repeated mistakes in his work, and was revoked his medical license.
The tragic fate of the little people is vividly displayed in this drama. Behind the Sackler family's pursuit of profit are countless broken families.
But the Sacklers didn't care.
Did the three prosecutors finally defeat Purdue Medicine?
Did the Sacklers get the punishment they deserved?
Can the little people be redeemed after falling into the abyss?
These need to be slowly tasted by everyone in the process of watching the drama.
It is worth mentioning that "Addiction Dose" is not a fast-paced drama, it belongs to the type of slowly telling a good story, may not be able to catch your eyeballs at first, but as long as you insist on watching the first episode, you will definitely issue a "real fragrance" exclamation.