Topic- How has the pharmaceutical industry led to an opioid crisis in America?
K-Know:
- The pharmaceutical industry have been prescribing painkillers which are opioids to people in vast amounts not realizing they are making people more drug addicts
- People who are in control of this industry have million dollar contracts
- Oxycontin is a very popular opioid in America
- They destroy families and kill people
W-Want:
- What type of possible solutions can there be for the irresponsibilities of the industry ?
- What type law regulations is there for Pharmaceutical companies?
- Where to go if you see a victim suffering from this crisis?
- What are some of the opioids that are most prevalent in America?
L-Learned:
- More than 130 Americans die everyday from opioid overdoses
- 75% of the people who uses heroin had started by using prescription opiates
- Purdue Pharma with their painkiller oxycontin that revolutionized how opioids were marketed
- Perdue Pharma has earned more than $35 billion from Oxycontin sales
- There are so many failures of the regulatory agencies, federal agencies and state agencies to control this epidemic.
+-Still want to know:
- If opioids are one and the single most dangerous medication why are doctors still prescribing it?
- Why is the government not regulating these pharmaceutical companies?
Adriana, your research topic “How has the pharmaceutical industry led to an opioid crisis in America?” is quite interesting. Yes, this is a pervasive problem in this country, and why we still have this problem is certainly worth looking into! You’re off to a good start on this topic.