One of Purdue's biggest writers of Oxycontin

Oh give me a break! Big bad Purdue tricked the innocent salespeople!!! REALLY??

You guys sure were there to pick up the paychecks.

 

To a small extent, I agree that the salespeople were snowed by Purdue also. Pain societies that we were never told were funded by Purdue agreed with what Purdue was telling us.

However, it only took common sense for the reps to realize that no patient required 2,400 mg Oxy q12h, like management was pushing constantly ("titrate til the patient says thank you!!")....does that sound familiar to anyone??? But most (If not all) reps put their heads in the sand. Why? Because of HUGE bonus checks for a patient on that kind of dose...and all those patients lining out the door of a docs office where a bus was parked outside. "Patients" with needle marks up and down their arms. Come on, admit (If even just to yourself) that you (the rep) knew there was something wrong there. But the almghty dollar won out in most people's minds.

 

Who wouldn't want to tap into some of that crime family money Purdue was handing out?

 

I'll tell you who....anyone with any sort of conscience, anyone with any sense of ethics, anyone who really thought about what their actions were producing....addicts. also, anyone who wanted to sleep peacefully at night.

 

AMEN!!!

 

So many award trips handed out on the backs of addicts in territories with pill mill doctors.

 

Hush money.

 

I agree with the last poster. I was there from '98 - '03 and while Purdue's hands are certainly stained, to say they 'directly' caused this epidemic is stupid & naive. A gun doesn't fire without a person pulling the trigger and opioids don't cause over-doses without people taking, mixing, shooting, you name it... too much.

Ultimately, it's what we grown-ups call personal accountability and before all of you whiney, victimized, liberal sissies out there start whaling about the horrors of addiction and how individuals cannot beat it, BULL-SHIT.

There is a moment, often more than one, in EVERY addict's twisted journey where they question themselves and what they are doing. It is at this point(s), when recognizing that the NEED for something bad is STRONGER than what they know is the right thing to do, that THEY GIVE UP AND GIVE IN - simple.

All other arguments are simply excuses and laying blame on others to justify bad choices.

 

It's much easier to make the "wrong" decision when your doctor (the individual you trusted with having your best interest in mind) is saying you NEED something like Oxy. Never mind that the doc just got back from an "educational seminar" about the pain societies' recommendations about treating pain (docs nor reps nor patients knew for a LONG time that the pain societies were funded by Purdue). I do believe in personal accountability, but when someone in authority (the doc) says you need to take a pill, you tend to trust them....hence, the making of the addict!!

 

And all that pressure from management as well a threats of PEP plans, PIP's or termination to sales the sales force. Remember the hour Glass on the name tags at the national meeting? Not so subtle reminder that your time could expire. Management by intimidation. Dicks.

 

I hope someone took a picture of the hour glass with the name tags; strong evidence of senior leadership intimidation tactics. Might be valuable in a lawsuit.

 

Bruce Taggart