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“problem-solution marketing. They would market and publicize the problem of untreated pain. Then they’d promote the solution: OxyContin.”
― American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
― American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
“It didn’t mention that the “article” was a letter to the editor, published in 1980, and that its conclusions were based on a simple review of the charts of hospitalized patients, not a scientific study of long-term narcotic use. But the idea was out there, published in a scientific journal: Fewer than 1 percent of pain patients would develop addictions.”
― American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
― American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
“Between 1996 and 2002, Purdue funded more than twenty thousand pain-related educational programs, almost ten a day, seven days a week. During the same years, Purdue conducted”
― American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
― American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
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