NPR journalist Christopher Booker interviews a chronic pain patient who has taken opioid painkillers for seven years, and calls out pharmaceutical companies for fraudulent claims about their drug’s non-addictive qualities.
“In the late 1990’s, Purdue Pharma, the maker of Oxycontin, which earned billions of dollars in revenue for the company, promoted the painkiller as having a low risk for addiction. But in 2007 the company admitted those claims were fraudulent and paid 600 million dollars in fines,” Booker says in the interview.
Listen to this important subject about how the medical field must look into the way it has been treating chronic pain.
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