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Patients began filing lawsuits in the early 2000s that accused Purdue of overstating OxyContin’s duration, among other complaints. One of the plaintiffs was a retired Alabama businessman named H. Jerry Bodie.

His doctor had Bodie on 30 milligrams of OxyContin every eight hours for chronic back pain. A Purdue sales rep persuaded him to switch Bodie to a higher dose every 12 hours, according to a judge's summary of the evidence.

Bodie returned to his doctor repeatedly, saying the drug wasn’t working, according to their sworn testimony. The doctor kept raising the dose, eventually putting Bodie on 400 milligrams a day.

For reference, the article cites earlier that the largest pill they even sold in 1996 was 40mg.

His lawsuit was dismissed because pharma companies have sweet liability shields. When they did finally get taken to court successfully, by the state of West Virginia (featuring an appearance by Eric Holder, then in private practice in between being Clinton's deputy AG and Obama's AG, who argued on behalf of Purdue to try to toss the lawsuit), they settled:

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On the eve of trial, Purdue agreed to settle the case by paying the state $10 million for programs to discourage drug abuse. All the evidence under seal would remain confidential.

A week later, Judge Stephens ordered one more document withdrawn from public view: His Nov. 5 ruling that there was enough evidence against Purdue to warrant a trial. The Times reviewed a copy of the ruling.

The settlement did not require Purdue to admit any wrongdoing or change the way it told doctors to prescribe the drug.

And still today:

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To this day, physicians frequently contact Purdue with questions about dosing. Only 12-hour dosing has been proved safe, the company tells them.

05-05-2016 , 04:29 PM

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just listened to the latest SAM HARRIS podcast for reasons I don't even understand. Anyway, he has an antiterrorism expert on, he (obviously) takes the discussion to the profiling question, she basically says "profiling doesn't work for reasons X Y and Z" and Sam's counterpoint is "yeah but most people object to it because it's mean to muslims, what about this narrative I built in my head that explains why I think it actually works?"

05-05-2016 , 04:30 PM

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Dude,

You should be offended by that Cinco de Mayo stuff if you also think shamrock shakes are racist.

FB friend is allegedly a communist and hates "cisdudes" like myself. He thinks St Patricks Day and being proud of Irish descent is very racist.

05-05-2016 , 04:39 PM

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SenorKeeed

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Originally Posted by pvn

just listened to the latest SAM HARRIS podcast

05-05-2016 , 05:09 PM

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FlyWf

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pvn what did I just tell you about podcasts. Listening to a Sam Harris podcast places you in extreme danger of retroactively becoming a virgin which, from my understanding of the science*, will cause your children to gradually disappear from the head down.

*Watching Back to the Future

05-05-2016 , 05:13 PM

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that happened a long time ago

05-05-2016 , 09:24 PM

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Tried to mow the lawn, lawnmower started spewing white smoke and leaking oil everywhere. Had to go to the casino to place kentucky derby bets for some friends, got absolutely annihilated playing poker. Left the casino to drive in peak rush hour traffic and discovered i had a flat tire.

05-05-2016 , 09:33 PM

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Which casino were you at? Go back and I'll meet you there.

05-05-2016 , 09:33 PM

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SenorKeeed

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Stop doing things

05-05-2016 , 09:40 PM

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standard

05-05-2016 , 09:47 PM

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Larry Wilmore's Black Magic segments are as good as it gets.

05-05-2016 , 09:57 PM

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Which casino were you at? Go back and I'll meet you there.

Can't. Told multiple witnesses that i was never playing poker again.

Flopped a full house and lost when the board came out quads and the ace high flush draw won.

05-05-2016 , 10:06 PM

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suzzer99

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How does a FH (or quads) lose to a flush? Or are you saying Royal?

05-05-2016 , 10:08 PM

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How does a FH (or quads) lose to a flush? Or are you saying Royal?

Quads on the board, ace kicker plays.

05-05-2016 , 10:09 PM

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05-05-2016 , 10:23 PM

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Oh duh.

Spoiler:

05-05-2016 , 10:24 PM

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Never play 5

on Cinco de Mayo.

05-05-2016 , 10:28 PM

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Larry Wilmore's Black Magic segments are as good as it gets.

You inspired me to finally go watch his White House Correspondents Dinner bit. That was great. No prisoners.

05-05-2016 , 10:34 PM

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JTM, look on the bright side.

Spoiler:

05-05-2016 , 10:34 PM

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Never play 5

on Cinco de Mayo.

I was in the blind!

05-05-2016 , 10:35 PM

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JTM, look on the bright side.

That's horrible. Was hoping for something more uplifting.

05-05-2016 , 11:48 PM

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Don't post much, but my house, along with the entire city of 100,000 that I live, burnt down the last couple days

Where was this? How awful and terrifying for everyone, glad it sounds like casualties were minimized

05-05-2016 , 11:50 PM

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I assume Fort McMurray.

05-05-2016 , 11:52 PM

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I'm not quite as indifferent to silly Cinco de Mayo stuff as I thought I was. Some college kids wearing sombreros in the library managed to annoy me.

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