Oxycontin
$634.5 million in fines. Record-breaking. Yeah?
Funny that the case was brought up on mislabeling charges. Apparently “Hillbilly Heroin” is addictive. Oxycodone addictive? Who knew? Well, aside from this guy or this one or this mysterious (and convincing) ghost writer.
US Attorney John L. Brownlee won the case, so I suppose my Limbaugh-Gonzales conspiracy theories are unfounded ( click for a 404 error ).
But what’s also odd were the charges that Purdue Pharma drug reps urged doctors to prescribe OxyContin every 8 hours instead of the 12 hour dose. Odd not because drug companies are just in it for the money—or at least that 40% of their budgets dedicated to sales force and advertising (about twice the cost of R&D, i.e. the creation of a useful product and its safety testing), but odd because FDA suggests doctors be creative in their drug prescriptions—in essence and essentially and other hedging I might essay—giving doctors license to prescribe untested, off-label uses for drugs. I’ve written about this dangerous absurdity.)
So Rush gets some dittos from the media for not being able to know his body well enough to sense serious addiction and for blind trust of pill pushers.
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