Not just the FDA - it goes all the way down the chain. However there’s a big difference between saying that means the whole medical community is also corrupt. Much like the met police racism labelling. Sure, they both have problems but not everyone is the problem.

You should also read Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre.

And whilst I have seen this pushed on Netflix (but not yet watched) I highly recommend watching another series on Disney+, Dopesick, which has Michael Keaton at his best and is also about the sacklers / OxyContin / opioid crisis.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

It certainly appears that there are some questionable things going on.

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Has? Tale as old as time

Correlation / causation tho, for those of you of a certain narrative persuasion

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

Watch the show or do some reading.

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You have a lot in common

I disengage, I turn the page.

So you claim that the FDA isn't in bed with the drug companies but wont back that up. Just look at the mass lawsuits against Purdue. The man at the FDA who approved it's use joined Purdue a year later.

So I will give you a brief summary.

- Oxycontin is simply Heroin in tablet form.
- Purdue owned the rights to a very restricted painkiller for end of life treatment e.g. you give it to dying patients who are in agony.
- Richard Sackler and the Purdue board re-branded the drug as Oycontin with the sole intention of mass marketing it in the US as a new pain medication similar to aspirin e.g. take one if you have a twinge in your back.
- It quickly became the drug of choice for existing recreational drug users and worse made addicts out of people who originally took it for legitimate purposes.
- It caused a mass opiate crisis destroying many lives and also increasing crime as people were desperate to pay for it.

- The FDA approved the use of the drug for general use despite warnings from doctors and researchers that it has the same addictive qualities are heroin.

- Their application to the FDA contained many lies e.g. only 1% of patients would become addicted (nonsense claim it's heroin for god sakes).

- The guy who approved it at the FDA joined the company on a fat salary after they groomed him for months whilst he kept rejecting their application and then he changed his mind.

As of today there have been congressional hearings and the company is now controlled by the courts whilst various lawsuits are ongoing.

At best the FDA failed completely to investigate the application at worst some of their staff colluded with Purdue and the FDA had no oversight to prevent this.

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