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“painstaking to come off of them. Right. And it's a long, long titration period. Long period of withdrawal compared to what you would get even from heroin or oxycontin, which is more compact and shorter. Right. So, and I found that to be true in my wife's journey too.”
“And wait, and fentanyl and oxycontin, too. They were created to be pharmaceutical drugs that actually have a place. I mean, they help Relieve pain. Yeah, relieve pain. The problem with them. They're insanely addictive.”
“Everyone's like, yeah, OxyContin has long half-life. People aren't going to get addicted to it. They knew people were going to get addicted. Well, the only way that your theory isn't true is if the most well-funded pharma research companies in the world didn't foresee what would potentially be the biggest drug market on the planet.”
“I get tenure at Stanford. This kind of shit is happening in my science world. Then a colleague of mine gets addicted to OxyContin after a back injury, and he's dead. And no one talks about it. Like everyone's like, oh, yeah, yeah. He was a member of the National Academy. He's a famous scientist down at the Salk Institute.”
“And if people love randomized control trials, I would say let's look at the products that have hit the market. What happened with OxyContin? What happened with all of the anti-inflammatories? What happened with antidepressants? In the second largest retrospective study analysis of a drug that went through randomized control trials, what did we see?”
“Where was that protection with the antidepressants, with the OxyContin, with the level of corruption we've seen from our regulatory bodies that are supposed to be here to protect us? Right. And those people are swapping spit oftentimes with industry at a level that's nauseating.”
“Uh-huh. But OxyContin's about as strong as it gets. I mean, it's an opiate. It's pretty fucking strong. Other than fentanyl. Fentanyl's about the strongest shit you can get. Yeah, but I'm talking about they got shit that they give you, like these football players and shit, they got shit that they give you that make you not feel anything.”
“Oh, yeah. The pill mills? Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah. I've watched a million documentaries. Okay. So OxyContin, that was sort of the testing round because all of these coal miners, it's hard work. They'd be in a lot of pain. I met up with a fourth generation coal miner. He said he was one of the first one put on that medication, on that drug and it's highly addictive.”