4 companies on verge of $26 billion deal to settle US opioid lawsuits

Heroin? No.

Oxy? I’m glad I never had the option.

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Heroin is a lot cheaper than Oxys. Just sayin.

Needles repulse me. Except for tattoos. lol

seems a little low.

most people smoke it before doing needles.
needles is late stages.

Heroin is often what people move to when they can’t afford pills anymore.

The Big Tobacco settlement ended up being around $200 billion.

I’m with you.

Any idea how much J&J are making off of their vaccine?

Snorting is usually the entry point. Smoking it requires effort.

most addict are quite well functioning hold down jobs but still waste 30K a year on opioids.
I know someone who make over 160K a year he might spend 90% that on drugs.

I know (or knew) many much wealthier, or higher-income drug addicts than that. You’d recognize their names, if I was legally allowed to share them.

It’s almost worse if you can afford it.

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If they told me it was heroin? I would have probably said no. But that’s just because the stigma around it. I know opioids are legal heroin

Well, the stigma is pretty much what I was asking. Did you get that far in to overcome the stigma, or not?

Even if you didn’t, I bet you could imagine getting there.

“Pain can’t kill you”

It can signal that something is very wrong, and it can hold back emotional and spiritual well-being, keep the sufferer from tasks most of us take for granted:

https://www.recovery.org/pro/articles/pain-management-in-recovery/

Prior restraint?

Mmmmmm

Another 6 billion but no civil liability. Screw that

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They paid some money, so everything is OK now! YAY!!!

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The last guy who oked a sweetheart deal for them became their general counsel…. I wonder what this judge will get

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Quid Pro Quo is a timeless pastime. :wink:

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