Just saw a commercial for a medication to alleviate “OIC” or “opioid induced constipation” (you can see it here www.ispot.tv/...). We have Big Pharma making millions more opioid pills ( oxycodone, hydrocodone, and hydromorphone) than are necessary addicting and killing people all across this country and now we have Big Pharma, in this case Astra Zenica, jauntily selling more pills to deal with the side-effects of the addiction that they helped create.
This is madness. Tell me again how marijuana is a gateway drug and the highway to Hell. Tell me again how El Chapo is a dangerous criminal and Big Pharma is just business.
There are legitimate uses for opioids and even for drugs that treat the side-effects that go with them. However, it is my belief and contention that Big Pharma has for decades knowingly produced more addictive drugs than are medically necessary and looked the other way as they made their way to the street. Prescription drug addiction causes more overdoses and deaths than illicit drugs but gets much less attention.