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I was gonna explain it in my own words but decided to do this. You guys really need to get out of your bubble of news.A conspiracy involves a group of people who work together to achieve a hidden goal. Are you staying that the FDA intended for an epidemic of opioid addiction to occur? The key word here is intended. Unless they were acting with intentionality it cannot be considered a conspiracy. Bad management maybe. Poor leadership. Lack of robust risk assessment. All quite possible and even likely. But add them all together and you get a pretty good case of government incompetence.
Dr. Curtis Wright, the FDA medical review officer who oversaw and signed off on the approval for OxyContin in 1995. A year after leaving the FDA, he went to work for the drug's manufacturer, Purdue Pharma, as an executive. [1, 2]
Details surrounding his involvement include:
- FDA Approval: While serving as the FDA examiner for Purdue Pharma's application, Wright allowed the drug to be approved with a label that claimed its delayed-absorption mechanism reduced its abuse liability, despite a lack of scientific data to back that up. [1]
- The "Revolving Door": Just over a year after leaving his position at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Wright was hired by Purdue Pharma in 1998 as their Executive Director of Medical Research with a large compensation package. [1]
Tell me he had absolutely no incentive to approve this drug.
This is what I’m trying to explain to you people but for some reason refuse to open your eyes.
Our government is controlled by Big Pharma and lobbyists. This is not a conspiracy.
As well read as most of you like to boast of yourselves on here and how educated you are seem to only read mainstream information.
Same thing with the food industry. They are allowed to put certain chemicals into our food to make it last longer and things like this and lobbyists lobby our government officials to pass laws allowing them to do this.
AGAIN, the state of Iowa has the highest number of recorded people with cancer. Does anyone on here have any idea what Iowa is known for in our country? Go ahead and tell me again how well read and educated some of you are on here.
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