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I have no followers so I'm sure this post will be a waste of #TwitterSpace. I have personally been blessed and cursed by the whole medical system most of my life. To start off, my father shot himself when I was 7 due to mental health issues. Back then depression and bipolar 👇🏼
was treated with drugs like Valium. He had a really low moment and boom. “Tell Roger I’m sorry” is what they told me he said. I was introduced to #oxycontin at the ripe age of 15. My first dose was 40mg and I was sick as a dog for hours. That would trigger a lifelong battle 👇🏼
With addiction to #opiods. After my mom abandoned me when I was 16 and after some time in a homeless shelter
then rehab, I began to get my life together at age 22. 23 im married and doing ok and wreck an #ATV (4-wheeler) off a mountain in #NorthCarolina and become #paralyzed👇🏼
then rehab, I began to get my life together at age 22. 23 im married and doing ok and wreck an #ATV (4-wheeler) off a mountain in #NorthCarolina and become #paralyzed👇🏼
The 3d Circuit #CourtOfAppeals has foiled #JohnsonAndJohnson's plan to use a bankruptcy scam called the #TexasTwoStep to escape paying 40,000 women whom the pharma giant sold carcinogenic, asbestos-tainted talcum to dust over their vulvas.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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Back in 2018, a jury awarded $4.69 billion to 22 women whose ovarian cancer was caused by J&J's toxic product, $4.14b of which was punitive. 3/
🧵 Mini serie recomendada 100%, refleja fielmente el negocio de las farmacéuticas, más concretamente #purduepharma, una empresa familiar que ha estado años vendiendo #oxycontin a los estadounidenses, un opiaceo muy adictivo.
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Este fármaco se ha llevado la vida de 500.000 personas además de millones de adictos, traficantes del medicamento, médicos que lo recetaban para cualquier dolor a cambio de dinero, viajes y prebendas. A día de hoy Purdue se ha declarado en bancarrota y
no se han depurado responsabilidades, ni se hará. Además de todo esto, varias farmacéuticas aprovecharon para seguir esa línea, falsificar los prospectos y comercializar medicamentos adictivos como si no lo fueran, un total despropósito.
Ontario Canada: "The world's longest #lockdown will come to an end next week" (Step 3, July 16/21).
No. It's not over.
New chief medical officer of health, Dr Kieran Moore makes clear #endemic state will emerge in fall w/ Ont. "doing all the due diligence to prepare."
No. It's not over.
New chief medical officer of health, Dr Kieran Moore makes clear #endemic state will emerge in fall w/ Ont. "doing all the due diligence to prepare."
Let's explore numbers behind "world's longest #lockdown", Ont., Canada. Gov't of Ontario website updated July 11, 2021.
"Active cases" in Ont. as of July 11 2021 under 20 yrs of age: 0
Deaths under 20 w/ #COVID19 - 3.
Estimated pop. of Ontario: approx. 14.73 million people.
"Active cases" in Ont. as of July 11 2021 under 20 yrs of age: 0
Deaths under 20 w/ #COVID19 - 3.
Estimated pop. of Ontario: approx. 14.73 million people.
Under 20 yrs:
Jan 15 2020 to July 11 2021:
Resolved cases: 68, 280
Active cases: 0
Deaths (WITH #covid19): 3
[Keeping in mind that Covid tests are inaccurate (false positives) & largely meaningless as testing positive can mean mild to no symptoms whatsoever.]
Jan 15 2020 to July 11 2021:
Resolved cases: 68, 280
Active cases: 0
Deaths (WITH #covid19): 3
[Keeping in mind that Covid tests are inaccurate (false positives) & largely meaningless as testing positive can mean mild to no symptoms whatsoever.]
March 6, 2019:
"Aligning for Impact: The Transformation of the World Health Organization"
#ImpactInvesting #SDGs #EmergingMarkets #WHO
unfoundation.org/blog/post/alig…
"Aligning for Impact: The Transformation of the World Health Organization"
#ImpactInvesting #SDGs #EmergingMarkets #WHO
unfoundation.org/blog/post/alig…
Of the 11,886 deaths associated with "other opioids" in 2019 (more or less prescription), 5,709 of them, or 48%, were also attributed to heroin and/or fentanyl.
It ain't prescription pain medication. #opioidcrisis
w/ wonder.cdc.gov/controller/sav…
w/o wonder.cdc.gov/controller/sav…
It ain't prescription pain medication. #opioidcrisis
w/ wonder.cdc.gov/controller/sav…
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The "opioid crisis" is fixated on #Purdue and #OxyContin... when prescription opioids, on their own (presumably with or without benzos), only account for 12.4% of the 49,860 opioid related deaths in 2019... marvelous work, USA.
Total 2019: wonder.cdc.gov/controller/sav…
It's funny synths actually make it not add up... they were 36,359 (wonder.cdc.gov/controller/sav…) and heroin was 14,019 (wonder.cdc.gov/controller/sav…) plus aforementioned 11,886 = 62,264.
Idk man, #WTFentanyl.
It's funny synths actually make it not add up... they were 36,359 (wonder.cdc.gov/controller/sav…) and heroin was 14,019 (wonder.cdc.gov/controller/sav…) plus aforementioned 11,886 = 62,264.
Idk man, #WTFentanyl.
#niet_in_journaal #nieuwsuur #1V #Op1 #bbvpro #NPORadio1 @MariekeNOS @NOSWaagmeester @eelcobvr @chgroenhuijsen #US #intelligence #CIA #FBI #Crossfire_Hurricane #declas justthenews.com/government/us-…
It's been 10 years since #OxyContin was re-engineered to make it hard to crush. But #publichealth benefits are still unclear. Here is a brief video of the epidemiology challenges.
vimeo.com/456967594
As guest speaker at FDA Advisory Committee
#RxEpi
#pharmacoepidemiology
vimeo.com/456967594
As guest speaker at FDA Advisory Committee
#RxEpi
#pharmacoepidemiology
A *product-centric* worldview, holds that abuse deterrence is primarily the property of the drug, and that that is the PRIMARY thing that changed with the reformulation, especially in the immediate aftermath.
A *person-centric* view holds that abuse deterrence is not merely a property of the drug, but rather an interaction between engineering and society, between physiochemical properties and point-of-prescribing medical decisions.
In one of the most disgusting episodes of corporate moral failure, #PurduePharma have declared bankruptcy because of lawsuits over #OxyContin, which they pushed despite knowing its addictive potential. The $35 billion in sales it generated?
wsj.com/articles/oxyco…
wsj.com/articles/oxyco…
Much of it has gone to the #SacklerFamily whose name you may recognise from the Sackler Gallery at @SerpentineUK or from the new Sackler courtyard at the @V_and_A or the Sackler Wing at the @metmuseum
@AllenFrancesMD has written about this here. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
@AllenFrancesMD has written about this here. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
In @VanityFair David Sackler lamented “the way our philanthropy has been turned against us.”
About the many lawsuits, he said “I really don’t think there’s much in the complaints, frankly" vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/d…
About the many lawsuits, he said “I really don’t think there’s much in the complaints, frankly" vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/d…
I saw this drug flood my hometown in Indiana almost 20 years ago. Several of my friends died from pain pill addiction, & not just any pills, #Oxycontin specifically. No one had ever heard of it, and then one day it was everywhere propublica.org/article/watch-…
i remember it was at almost the exact same time that the meth epidemic hit - average young people were smoking pot and being very chill and then these two horrifying and powerful drugs came along and it was like everyone went crazy
i have friends who served time for meth, people who turned to dealing after succumbing to addiction, and our prisons are full of them, but the people who pushed pain pills seem to continue to evade criminal prosecution
