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Tufts University to dissolve relationship with family behind OxyContin amid national opioid epidemic
Tufts University announced that it is severing ties with the billionaire family that owns Purdue Pharma, the firm that manufactures OxyContin.
The Massachusetts school announced Thursday that it is stripping the Sackler family name from its campus and will no longer accept any donations from them amid concerns that they are helping fuel the ongoing opioid crisis. The Sacklers and Tufts had maintained a nearly 40-year relationship that helped funnel millions to the school's science and medical programs.
"Our students, faculty, staff, alumni, and others have shared with us the negative impact the Sackler name has on them each day, noting the human toll of the opioid epidemic in which members of the Sackler family and their company, Purdue Pharma, are associated," the school said in a statement. "We are grateful to those who have shared their thoughts with us. It is clear that the Sackler name, with its link to the current health crisis, runs counter to the school's mission.
"In taking these actions, we will more fully enable our university and medical school to move forward in support of their missions and to help the countless individuals and families who have suffered as a result of the opioid crisis," the statement added.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday December 11 2019, @04:30PM (12 children)
Thanks.
I don't believe I have any porpoises that would benefit from DMSO.
I also believe my arthritis specialist is skilled at what he does. He gives good technical explanations of how things work, don't work and can be treated. He seems to know plenty of treatment options, including even very old drugs that still work perfectly just like when they were developed.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @04:52PM (9 children)
Thats your choice, just don't ask me to pay for you to take 10-100x overpriced treatments with more dangerous side effects.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday December 11 2019, @05:10PM (8 children)
I don't know what treatments you are thinking of. I take several inexpensive drugs. I had tried one modern and very expensive drug. It did help, but the way it screws with my immune system was not worth it. After a few years of on-again off-again with that drug, I finally threw in the towel. I would rather live with more pain in exchange for NOT catching every little sniffle and cough that comes along.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @05:29PM (2 children)
DMSO is the original, safest, and most effective NSAID. It works for like 80% of people, whenever the main problem is due to secondary inflammation vs simple totally destroyed joints. So unless you tried that first you have no idea what you are missing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @09:06PM (1 child)
He's missing having to rub stuff on his skin, the taste of garlic, and the possibility of
exposing his children (if he has them) to a substance that can harm their developing
nervous systems. He's also missing the difficulty of controlling dosing with a topical
vs. the dose control of a pill, the possibility of drug interactions with meds his doctors
know about but you don't, and the risk of absorbing toxins in to his skin since DMSO
increases the permeability of skin.
DMSO has legitimate uses when combined with other drugs in patch form. If that
made sense for him, his doctor would probably have him on a patch. My Dad was
on a patch for his back. I don't know if DMSO was in the mix, but a powerful pain
killer was and I was always real careful not to touch it when I helped him change
the patch.
There's a reason why DMSO isn't first-line. But whatever. Nevermind the MD, listen
the the AC instead?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @11:04PM
There is no option of act like a human being and research/think for yourself? To you the only options are which authority to choose?
If you are worried about toxicity you can start here:
Brobyn, R. D. (1975). THE HUMAN TOXICOLOGY OF DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 243(1), 497–506. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1975.tb25394.x
scihub: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1975.tb25394.x [sci-hub.tw]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday December 11 2019, @07:30PM (4 children)
It seems to me the A/C you're arguing with is using the Libertarian magical thinking of "Voluntary Contracts" and you're living in the real world.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @07:57PM (3 children)
Where did you get that?
The people on this sites are literally nuts, they just make up strawmen out of thin air, argue with them, then vote each other up.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday December 11 2019, @11:15PM (2 children)
I got it from your first comment:
Advocating getting rid of prescriptions sounds like a Libertarian thing to me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @11:30PM (1 child)
Where did I advocate getting rid of prescriptions? I said because there are prescriptions we can't blame the person blindly taking the drug.
You are a seriously confused individual, please stop making up strawmen loosely related to my posts.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday December 11 2019, @11:48PM
Thanks for the insults by the way. It is not strengthening your arguments.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @04:56PM (1 child)
Is this your doctor? https://img.bhs4.com/77/5/775500f311d5bd261736dc9e3f0006d9acd1d7d5_large.jpg [bhs4.com]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday December 11 2019, @05:10PM
No
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.