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Oxycontin: How One Pill Changed America Forever

Launched in 1995 by Purdue Pharma, Oxycontin is a Schedule II narcotic that changed the face of pain in America, and not for the better. They claimed their opioid was different. Their reps fed this information to the doctors. The doctors prescribed, and the rest is history. A history that can be understood by statistics. Today we look at the devastating journey of how one small pill set America on a destructive road to an opioid epidemic that is still affecting millions every day, an epidemic which has directly affected the average US life expectancy. Each episode of Learning Tings is available as a podcast, or a Youtube video. Instagram: @lucedwyer Email: info@lucey.com.au Chapters: 00:00 Intro 02:14 The Birth of Oxycontin 07:27 The FDA Process 12:57 Oxycontin Hits the Market... Hard 20:36 The 12 Hour Nightmare 24:43 Addiction 28:52 "Less than 1% become addicted" 30:55 Oxycontin Abuse & Effects on Crime 38:55 Where are we now? 40:55 In Closing