![]() We know from a 2012 Bloomberg BusinessWeek exposé on Florida pill mill operators that it was actually oxycodone and hydrocodone-based generics that were fueling opioid use disorder. This total condemnation of Purdue, the Sackler family and Ox圜ontin resides entirely in the realm of fiction. Samuel Finnix (Michael Keaton), a fictional general practitioner, is asked under oath, “What do you think caused so many deaths in such a short period of time?”įlashbacks intervene before Finnix states, definitively: “Ox圜ontin.” The prosecutor then hammers home the point by asking, “So just to be clear, you are blaming numerous deaths in your region on just one medication?” And with a heavy-heart, filled with prescriber regret and his own addiction stigmatization, Finnix states, “Yes.” While being questioned by a federal prosecutor, Dr. In the first episode, Strong creates a highly dramatic, but erroneous opening scene. It’s not difficult to find, if one searches beyond the bombast of mainstream news about opioids to focus instead on medical literature and government data. This data was available at the time of Macy’s book release in 2018 and when the Hulu series came out in 2021. We know that throughout the opioid epidemic, Ox圜ontin made up, at most, only 4% of the total market for prescription opioids. ![]()
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