Nicole’s Reviews > Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty > Status Update

"But the reality was that a lot of these people were already addicted. Many had been for years. They had passed a point of no return, and as it happened, there was an inexpensive substitute for oxycontin that was cheaper, and stronger, and widely available: Heroin."

yes yes lets aggressively sell and market a highly addictive and easily abusable drug (but essentially say it's non addictive and non abusable) for 15 years and THEN lets reformulate to make it safer (and also to extend the patent dur) and then turn around and say that our competitors can't manufacture a generic version of the original oxycontin because it's UNSAFE.

these fuckwads trying to sell OXYCONTIN as an otc drug is fucking nuts

god they had their grubby little disgusting fingers in everything.

ok the exposition (idk what else to call it) is over and now it's real people stories and oh god