Dopesick

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really good show. a bit overly dramatic with several of the characters and situations, but not enough to make it not worth watching. I'd recommend it.
 
Thought it was good. Read the book “empire of pain” which was really good as well. A lot more back story and history in the book
 
I finished dopesick. Very well done.

Raises the question since the numbers were politically skewed 15ish years ago when I was a fellow in the midst of the epidemic.

What do contemporary studies show regarding the percentage of the population is genetically susceptible to opioid addiction?

Anyone can become dependent if they take it TID 24/7 as prescribed for 3 months and are then told to stop.

I’m referring to people who get 7-10 days of opioids after surgery and then crave it so much they will do illegal things to get more?
 
bedrock said:
I finished dopesick. Very well done.

Raises the question since the numbers were politically skewed 15ish years ago when I was a fellow in the midst of the epidemic.

What do contemporary studies show regarding the percentage of the population is genetically susceptible to opioid addiction?

Anyone can become dependent if they take it TID 24/7 as prescribed for 3 months and are then told to stop.

I’m referring to people who get 7-10 days of opioids after surgery and then crave it so much they will do illegal things to get more?
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Commonly quoted is 3.4% of US population will have opioid addiction.
 
doesnt mean that 3.4% of patients who get a week of opioids will become addicted. that number of people who "become addicted" from short course post op opioids is probably much smaller.

but remember that the prior paradigm (10+ years ago) for post operative opioids was for the patient to get as long as they wanted.



i was asked to assist on med management for an ortho spine surgeon that retired in 2016. he had multiple patients that he started prescribing percocet post surgery and continued over his 30 year career. i can definitely state that he had been prescribing oxys to some patients since the mid 1990s...
 
Ducttape said:
doesnt mean that 3.4% of patients who get a week of opioids will become addicted. that number of people who "become addicted" from short course post op opioids is probably much smaller.

but remember that the prior paradigm (10+ years ago) for post operative opioids was for the patient to get as long as they wanted.



i was asked to assist on med management for an ortho spine surgeon that retired in 2016. he had multiple patients that he started prescribing percocet post surgery and continued over his 30 year career. i can definitely state that he had been prescribing oxys to some patients since the mid 1990s...
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Shocking thing about dopesick and my other reading was learning that oxycodone was discovered over a hundred years ago in 1916.

It took a slick marketing campaign and owners without morals to kill a half a million people and make untold multiples , addicted to opioids
 
www.statnews.com

The history of OxyContin, told through unsealed Purdue documents

In a newly unsealed 1996 email, Dr. Richard Sackler wrote that he wanted Purdue Pharma to be "feared as a tiger with claws, teeth and balls."
www.statnews.com www.statnews.com

good read on company memos. (truth be told, i only looked at a few specific documents, not all of them.)

some interesting comments about how they had good relationship with American Pain Society...
 
Dopesick was very well done.

I’ve been around long enough to have known both Haddox and Portenoy personally. Russ Portenoy was THE biggest name in the field at the time. A really brilliant physician. He was one of several leaders in the field trained by Kathy Foley at MSKCC. In my recent move I unearthed a whole bunch of the Purdue “Partners in Pain” pens, Post-It’s, etc that I was given during that crazy time in pain medicine.
 
NJPAIN said:
Dopesick was very well done.

I’ve been around long enough to have known both Haddox and Portenoy personally. Russ Portenoy was THE biggest name in the field at the time. A really brilliant physician. He was one of several leaders in the field trained by Kathy Foley at MSKCC. In my recent move I unearthed a whole bunch of the Purdue “Partners in Pain” pens, Post-It’s, etc that I was given during that crazy time in pain medicine.
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yes. brilliant.....
 
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