Doctor REACTS to PainKiller| Dr Elliott

As long as medical care is tied to profit in the US, people like the Sacklers will put that before any human considerations. Healthcare, and the pharmaceutical companies, definitely need to be nationalized, and the profit motive removed.

I watched the whole mini-series. It's VERY well done and Mathew Broderick does a great job of playing a heartless monster. I'd love to see you react to the whole series!

My brother (in Australia) now has early onset type dementia due to doctors constantly giving him pills knowing he takes the whole bottle at once. My family begged GP to stop. Then his brain kept being starved of oxygen too many times that now he is nothing of his original self, slim athletic maths whizz, drawing expert blah blah: now he lives with mum can’t work and repeats himself non stop. Never married or had a gf.

It was okay to start. But by Episode 3 it was so whack and over-the-top I had to investigate the veracity of what we were being show. Turns out, this was so "fictionalized for dramatic effect" that it became a lie.

The lead character: didn't exist.
The "whistleblowers": didn't exist.
All the things about the workings of the company and the inner family stuff: 100% baselessly fabricated.

When you watch this, ask yourself this: when it is the fictional leader character repping something or learning something that only she would know or learn, then how is there any truth to it?

I feel less informed about the OxyCotin epidemic now than before I watched this. Never think that your dramatic license allows you to fabricate to out and out lies. Your legacy will be your own lies, not the big truths you believed you were exposing.

Watching Dopesick next--hopefully their writers and producers and director have a little more honesty and integrity.

“DOPESICK” on HULU covered the same story. Regardless, it is important to note that Persue targeted the Appalachian population related to chronic pain conditions from working labor intense careers (ex. Mining coal).

The muscle relaxer wouldnt be a benzo, most likely something like baclofen

please do, you are the most insightfull doctor. I have come across with a skill for clear elegant communication unmatched

My mom needed opioids to survive a livable life and was refused time and again. She was crippled and ended up bedridden due to RA, her pain level was beyond understanding and not understood till in a nursing home. Suddenly she need dilated and fentanyl patch….they had her on tramadol, we had to fight to get. Chronic pain suffers suffered greatly because they were not seen, only the addiction issues seen. She was lumped into addicts and not her physical need to fight her disease so she could move.
Movies like this anger me….I watched it and wondered why chronic pain suffers were ignored!

We should bring the soul of a lot of people of medicine of the past and put them in front of a trial.

I just watched the series, its phenomenal.

I hope you do the whole series, it's heartbreaking as well as hate-inducing and heartbreaking all over again.

Thing is it’s ppl addicted to opioids & aren’t prescribed them…. Not the one prescribed them. Yes it happens. But it’s more on ppl who aren’t prescribed i see get addicted

I waited to watch this because I thought this would be talking about bits throughout the whole season, and whilst watching it, I couldn't wait to get your take on it. You will find this whole season fascinating and would love to see a deeper dive on it.

I didn’t like the series very much. Everything is shown in black and white. I‘m not an American. I need Ritalin and sometimes Lorazepam and my mother with slight dementia needed tilidin for months when she broke her neck and hips. Neither of us became addicted.

It’s weird how this generation of organic food & looking your best self for your future followers has decided how the world should view their acceptable drug of choice. It’s a badge of honour to be addicted to oxys they are not seen as dirty, lying, thieves that take their drugs in the homeless streets of big cities., No,no,no. They are college educated shallow people who think they can say they got pills from their posh doctor for a very real injury that would require photographing & sharing with strangers around the world that are enthralled that they took 1 pill & were instantly addicted but they recognized that they must discuss their recovery & will need a lot of media support from more strangers that have a shared experience & they become relevant once again. I’m interested as this outcry was never aimed at Ritalin pills that were passed around schoolyards like candy. We didn’t give a shit about Ritalin because pills weren’t trendy by being blamed for every drug addict that chose to take those pills because they will take anything to get high. Oxys aren’t the problem the media propaganda is.

In my opinion as a drug addict well versed in the opioid history of the past 30 years people really need to shut up about Purdue and Oxy, yes it’s a very addictive drug but it barely exists in the US now and still more people are dying of overdoses and they don’t start on oxy and move to dope they know they’re doing fentanyl the first time they get high. This is a much deeper issue than just drugs some societal change occurred over the past 30 years such that the US is now a country that produces children that a majority of which are mentally Ill and suicidal and perfectly happy to do whatever drug they can including fentanyl. A healthy society doesn’t do that and while the Oxy issue is long behind us drug abuse and overdose continues to increase. That tells me this has almost nothing to do with drugs and everything to do with the people our society creates.

I loved this series. I fell in love with Glen’s story. I have never done drugs but I this series did a great job at capturing what having a addiction and balancing a family is like.❤️.

As someone suffering from chronic pain for years I understand why people were willing to try anything to try to live a normal life. Personally I hate taking pills, I would rather suffer than be out of control. Watching this tells me that coping with the pain is the lesser suffering.

About 20 years ago I had a friend with fibromyalgia, she was prescribed oxycodone and was assured it was non addictive. Her doctor told her she would never have to worry about that she thought it was a miracle.

I am blown away by your intelligence and ability to communicate. Huge fan!

I was on Oxy in middle school and 1 year of high school. Like the bottle would have 11 refills😂 that time was wild.

Great Commentary learned a lot from your video.

No thanks,I'm good with just hydrocodone.

You said in the UK ppl dont take the Hippocratic oath but on my graduation day (i was a biomedical science graduate and we shared the ceremony day with the some of the graduating medics) they asked the graduating medical graduates to stand to recite a version of the hippocratic oath. But im guessing this isn't routinely done which is fair

Great video, it was really interesting

As a physician in Chile (South America) I can’t understand how the American health system is supposedly one of the best in the world and yet they have no control over the opioid market. In Chile opioids are only prescribed in a hospital or emergency room or as palliative care at home for people that are dying. No way would you ever get them prescribed for musculoskeletal pain, we manage it successfully with paracetamol and NSAIDs.
PS. I totally get what you mean about the commercials! It amazed me too 😂

I know the company knew the drug was addicted, but the doctors that spent 8 years plus in med school didn't know it was? They saw what it was doing to their patients and they kept prescribing it to them. they are both responsible for this epidemic .

placing all the blame on manufactures, and removing all responsibility from the user is one of the main reasons there is a drug crisis...do whatever you want, you are not responsible for actions...?

@BaniAmor I‘m able to see where you’re coming from. I was diagnosed with rheumatoid Arthritis 13 years ago and spent some time in the wheelchair- to experience chronic pain is devastating!
Many are still hight functioning and the pain is invisible. Nevertheless I truly believe for many talking pills and dealing with the symptoms only is the „easier“ way instead of looking at the root causes of suppressed emotions, trauma, inflammation, diet … (it’s obvious that this is not generally true for everyone experiencing pain!!! ) yet for a huge amount of people it is!!! In my opinion and from my own healing experience there’s no argument that justifies most of the practices used to market these powerful drugs the way these companies are doing it. We live in a clown world run by greed and psychopaths sit in the drivers seat.

Id love to see more on what we're learning about benzos. Seems very similar

The sacklers definitely did what they did. But oxycodone isn’t the issue. It’s doctors giving it out so easily and not giving patients the correct information about the drug and it’s effects and what not to mix it with etc.

Painkiller was good but Dopesick was better.

Entertaining mini series but so absurdly melodramatic.

is chlorpromazine related to promethazine? I was prescribed that several times for sleep tho it never worked well for me.

As a medical anthropologist, the idea that all of human behaviour can be summed up as running from pain or towards pleasure is just incorrect anyway. What about cases where pain and pleasure are intertwined? What about when people intentionally make difficult decisions even if they know they'll be painful? What about self-sabotaging behaviour where we actively deny ourselves the opportunities for pleasure? It just doesn't hold up to to scrutiny.

I’ve had my own issues with opioids and benzo’s, and I’ve come to the conclusion that if a gp surgery I’m in the uk prescribed these strong meds they should also run addiction clinics with addictions specialists to help people taper off slowly which is something that never happens, you are basically left on your own to come off, I also don’t think after creating the problem of people addicted to these meds you should just rip them off and think they you’ve sorted the problem because you haven’t and if you are suffering from withdrawals you’ll seek out your local dealer for anything.

This drug has help many people as well.

I think the ONLY that no longer surprises me about the Sacklers is that they also didn’t buy up all of the rehab facilities to get the money on the other end too.

It’s funny how everyone is angry they scammed the political system to get this drug through. You guys realise all these online misinformation bills being pushed through are just going to make this behaviour by pharmaceutical companies much much worse. When you can’t question or give alternative solutions to anything they can get away with everything.

I've had 2 friends & a relative die via OD from this. I know countless who are or been addicted to opioids including myself. I will never forgive these ppl for setting us up to destroy our lives.

The jewish Sacklers did a holocaust to the US Nation.
More then 1 Million deads and Millions and Millions that are "living Zombies"....look at Phili or SF.

Please react to the whole series. It gets very intense towards the end. I couldn't stop watching and had tears in my eyes in parts watching how these greedy pigs ruined the lives of heart working people and never really paid for it.

Pain Hustlers is another great movie

I havent seen the series yet, looking forward to it. What hits me right away is that I like the way Broadrick potrays the guy in such a blank way, not trying to act like a villain. Without the context you`d say "whats your problem, it just your normal everyday bussinesman. Like the concept of "banality of evil" developed in a book about Eichmann, he impersonates it well.

I though Demon Copperhead (book) did a good job of presenting the early days of the epidemic in the USA. Not blaming the medication for what it is, per se, but faulting the company's push to get it prescribed for all and sundry, as well as the lack of monitoring of its use and the socioeconomic pressures feeding into that.

Just watched the series. Sick to my stomach this was happening under my families noses. My father was a fireman across the street from Purdue Pharma’s Norwalk CT building. I used to ride my bike in their parking lot when I was little. Eventually my construction company tour it down around 2014ish when Lowes Home Improvememt bought the property which is now one of the busiest and most lucrative Lowes in the world. A LOT OF STUFF goes down in Fairfield County CT…..the most powerful people live there and Westchester County NY. People with total anonymity. I personally know 1 of the 5 bankers who Congress blamed for creating the mortgage bubble in 2008. Clinton made sure all 5 had a Get Out of Jail Free Card.

Genuine question: how were you able to legally get the Netflix footage to use?

The Real Bad Guy's are Purdue and sackler Sackiller family

I live with chronic pain, and I can understand how addiction to them happens. Pain is soul destroying, I have to fight everyday not to ask for something stronger, but I know that's not going to make the pain go away long term, so I live with crippling pain all day everyday

My addiction was not a moral failing but the things i did when i was in active addiction certainly were