'Once you start taking heroin, it starts forming a relationship with it like any other human being. You can't even think of leaving it.
This is what Dan, a homeless and drug-addicted person from America, says. This story of drug addiction is not of any one dan but there are lakhs of such dans in America. They cannot even imagine their life without drugs.
In America in 2022, more than one lakh people lost their lives due to drug overdose. Not only this, the average age of American people has decreased by two years due to addiction.
The 'Sackler' family is considered responsible for this condition of the world's most powerful country. The reason for this is that this family is the owner of that pharmaceutical company, after eating which people in America got addicted to drugs.
In today's story, we will learn how drug addiction became an epidemic in America because of the Sackler family…
First of all see these 2 pictures…
This picture is of Roger McLaren of Ohio City. His condition has happened due to drug overdose. This is the photo of the time when the police was taking him to the hospital.
This picture is of Rachel Hoffman living in Ohio city of America. In this she is 6 months pregnant. Later, due to his drug habit, the custody of his child was taken away. Right now she is getting her treatment done in the de-addiction center.
It was a matter of 1990s in America when pain medicine became addictive . The doctors of America admitted that the people there have a serious problem of body pain. Some solution should be found to get relief from this.
After this, there was a competition among pharma companies in America to make pain medicine. In this, a company named Purdue came out ahead. Dr. Richard Sackler played an important role in making this medicine. He was one of the many owners of this company. The name of the medicine that his company made was Oxycontin.
After making the drug, the Purdue company conducted a trial of Oxycontin from June 15, 1993 to April 15, 1994. In this trial, 133 elderly people were included, who had problems with knee and joint pain.
Only 63 people could complete this trial. In these too, 82% people had various side effects. Despite this, ignoring the danger, the company said that this drug is capable of relieving pain for a long time.
The marketing team then holds meetings with 500 doctors to take the drug to the masses. 76% of these doctors agree to use the medicine. The drug is launched in the market.
According to the New York Times report, Richard Sackler held big parties to promote the drug. Meanwhile, this company connects a famous doctor of Geneva, Pierre Dare, with the campaign to relieve pain.
He praises this campaign of the company, but at the same time, he also expresses the possibility of getting used to eating this medicine. Although the company ignores this. The result has been that as soon as it came in the market, the sale of the medicine increased. The company accomplished the target of one year's sale in just 8 months.
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