Topic: opioids

It’s Business 101, for illegal as well as legal enterprises.

As domestic sales decline, Big Pharma looks around for other markets

I’m no lawyer, but it makes me think of robbing a bank and returning 20% of the spoils to avoid jail.

These multi-billion dollar fines sound enormous, but like the one levied on Facebook, they represent a small portion of the company’s actual assets.

Picture a horde of lemmings suddenly deciding to change direction and stampede off a different cliff.

Legal responsibility, however, is quite different. J&J’s attorneys will do whatever they can to shift blame elsewhere.

Cannabis doesn’t replace opioids the way methadone or buprenorphine do. There’s no antagonist effect as with naloxone or naltrexone.

We shouldn’t ignore the emotional factors involved in chronic pain– such as anxiety and depression.

I compare it to finding someone lying on the sidewalk, helping them up, brushing them off, and pushing them down again.