Purdue Pharmacy pushed doctors to prescribe opioids for pain scores above 5 or 6 out of 10, flooding the market with addictive medications. The Netflix documentary The Pharmacist explores how the company shaped medical practice and broke the system for treating chronic pain.
So what kind of things are you doing? Yeah, so, like, I treat a lot of chronic pain. And, you know, the problem with traditional chronic pain is, like, I mean, the whole system's broken, right? Like, I mean, I don't know if you've heard of that documentary about, like, the whole Purdue Pharmacy and, like, how they got people hooked on oxycodone content and, like, all this stuff. What documentary is that? It's really good one. It's called the Pharmacist. It's on Netflix, highly recommended. But it's basically about this company called Purdue Pharmacy. And they essentially tricked, more or less, but doctors aren't children, so I don't know if you can say they were tricked, but let's just say they tricked doctors to believe that pain was a vital sign, like a six vital sign, and that they had to treat pain using pain meds. And so essentially, whenever anyone had a pain more than like, 5, 6 out of 10, they would be like, here, take some ossyontin, no problem.
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