Ethics of Opioids
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How far is too far when it comes to the prescription of opioids? How far can you go to stop giving a prescription that is helping so many people but also hurting so many people?
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- 1. The Ethics of Opioids Erin McQuillan
- 2. Opioids “Opioids are natural or synthetic chemicals that bind to receptors in your brain or body.” Used to treat: Severe pain-often after surgery and chronic or acute pain Common Opioids: heroin and prescription drugs such as oxycodone and hydrocodone Incredibly addictive Since 1999, the number of prescriptions for opioid pills has quadrupled. The number of annual overdose deaths has quadrupled, too, to 19,000 per year.
- 4. John Kapoor Net worth: $1.82 billion CEO of Insys- powerful pain-killing fentanyl spray called Subsys that is approved only for use by cancer patients Investigated by U.S. attorneys in the Central District of California and the District of Massachusetts “I look at doctors and we think, professionally, they’re all ethical and all that,” Kapoor says. “I learnt that in certain areas, like in pain management or in opioids—this is public information, I’m not making it up—that there are doctors that overprescribe and things like that.” On speaker programmes: “We have very strict company policies,” Kapoor says. “If something happened in the field, sometimes the company may not know about it.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pdPrQFjo2o (13:39-14:52)
- 5. Ethical Questions Since there are so many deaths, why are the number of prescriptions going up? How far can you go to stop giving a prescription that is helping so many people but also hurting so many people? How would you guys go about solving this problem? John Kapoor made his billions by letting his drug companies push legal and ethical limits, why has he been allowed to do this for so long?