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paraphrased: “Didn’t have measures to prevent reps gaming the system to prescribe FENTANYL for fucking MIGRAINES.” washingtonexaminer.com/sen-claire-mccaskill-finds-insys-inappropriately-pushed-opioid-to-patients/article/2633596
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there are a million reasons why this is SO FUCKED UP but my favorite rn is that using opiates for migraines causes nasty rebound headaches.
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remember: don’t blame the people who are hurting and desperate to not hurt. blame the drug companies for doing fucked up shit like this.
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if your instinct is to think “well *i* wouldn’t use those drugs” then lol clearly you don’t really know pain.
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opiates are A Good Thing. but it sure would be nice if there were more drugs on the market that treat pain in new and interesting ways.