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Pseudoaddiction: OxyContin Sacklers Invented a Fake Disease to Sell More Opioids
Note: 23 January 2021 — this is the third in a series of articles about the OxyContin opioid billionaire physician/pharmacist-led Sackler family and how they made their billions by literally destroying others’ lives with the most addictive-possible timed-released semi-synthetic opioid: OxyContin. They are still at work in 2021, following a business model that’s not taught in any MBA school but is behind most of the major fortunes of the 20th and 21st centuries. Addiction. From fast food (McDonald’s “heavy users”) to manipulation of online users’ or game players’ behavior and provision of toxic, addictive entertainment products (this is why we see so many repetitive films, remakes, TV shows) — the money-making model is to addict and create the heaviest possible and repeated use.
“Are you kidding me?”
That’s what I blurted when I read the section of the Massachusetts’ Attorney General’s complaint against Purdue Pharma that detailed the invented illness of “pseudoaddiction.”
NO WAY!
Yes, way. Purdue Pharma’s leader, Richard Sackler, instructed sales reps to tell doctors that if their patients showed signs of addiction, it really wasn’t addiction. It was “pseudoaddiction,” a condition cured by …
