Friday, September 28, 2018
The Opioid Lawsuit Circus
I found this in an article by Betsy McCaughey at Spectator.org:
"Pinning the entire overdose crisis on drug companies is scapegoating. It ignores scientific evidence that the biggest cause of opioid deaths are illegal drugs like fentanyl and heroin that are trafficked to young people. Prescriptions for high doses of opioids needed for chronic pain are down 41% since 2010. Yet overdose deaths are higher than ever. Medical users are not the ones overdosing. Harvard and John Hopkins researchers find a minuscule six-tenths of one percent of patients prescribed opioids after surgery misuse them."
