'Scum of the earth': Drug victims face Purdue Pharma owners

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5. Maybe if they invested as much into researching addictions,

as they do on drugs that cause addictions, we’d get somewhere. We know just enough to know that addictions happen in the brain. We all have them. Some of us love our coffee or our Coca Cola. Some enjoy beer or wine and some are enslaved by it. Most of us will not know before we try a substance if it’ll be a problem stopping it.

The pharmaceuticals who know about the addictive properties of their products are no different than the tobacco companies who hid the fact that cigarettes were harmful and had addictive chemicals in them. They owe it to their clients to work as hard on figuring out addictions and solving the problem as they do on developing the drugs in the first place.

No one wants patients who need pain meds for chronic conditions to suffer. But neither do we want people who get addicted to have their lives destroyed. There has to be a better way.