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[Purdue Pharma] announced this week that the US Food and Drug Administration has granted fast-track status to its investigational drug nalmefene hydrochloride (HCl), an injectable, emergency treatment intended to rescue people suspected of having an opioid overdose. Purdue suggests that nalmefene HCl’s effects last longer than the similar emergency opioid antagonist naloxone. As such, the company hopes nalmefene HCl will out-compete naloxone at reversing overdoses from the most highly potent opioid, namely fentanyl, which is currently driving the alarming numbers of opioid overdose deaths. The FDA’s fast-track status will speed the development and regulatory review of the drug.
[...] In the statement this week, Purdue once again side-stepped any involvement in initiating the epidemic, focusing solely on illicit drug use. Purdue’s president and CEO, Craig Landau was quoted as describing the problem simply as “Fentanyl and illicit opioid deaths continue to increase in the United States, fueled increasingly by overdoses of this class of compounds.”
[...] Purdue announced that it doesn’t intend to make money on the new drug. “As part of Purdue’s commitment to advance meaningful solutions to address the opioid crisis, the company will work to bring forward this option with the commitment not to profit from any future sales of this drug.”
[...] Still, according to internal discussions at Purdue that were made public in a lawsuit brought by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Purdue and members of the wealthy Sackler family that owns the company had carefully researched the money-making potential of treatments aimed at reversing the epidemic.
An un-redacted section of the lawsuit describes a secret plan called Project Tango, which explored Purdue’s expansion into selling treatment options.
(Score: 1, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday March 17 2019, @10:47PM (3 children)
Guess that whole empathy thing is only for people you like, eh?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 18 2019, @05:37AM (2 children)
A swing and a miss! Your fallacy is the unspoken assumption that "empathy" means "lack of moral fibre and/or sense of justice." I suppose it would, to people who think like you, but that's not the case out here in the real world. And it's a sad commentary on you and the state of your mind that you think this way.
Remember, my guiding principle is karma: what goes around comes around. It's a law of physics, or metaphysics. Empathy doesn't enter into it, because it *can't,* any more than feeling sorry for someone who pitched himself off a roof will interfere with gravity.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday March 18 2019, @11:54AM (1 child)
It also dictates you do the minimum necessary amount of horrible shit to people because of how their suffering is going to reflect in you as empathy. Not caring about that is reserved for psychopaths, not feeling it in the first place is the province of sociopaths. And karma doesn't give you a free pass on the actions you take administering someone else's karmic debt. I don't envy you your next incarnation; it's going to be extremely unpleasant.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday March 18 2019, @09:21PM
So you'd better dismantle the entire justice system and forget about, for example, the death penalty then. After all, "karma doesn't give you a free pass on the actions you take administering someone else's karmic debt," so all those mean nasty awful horrible judges and juries and prison builders etc are just setting themselves up for world after world of hurt, aren't they?
Buddy, if I pull this off properly, there isn't gonna *be* a "next incarnation" for me. And even if I don't manage that I've been living in such a way that I'll avoid the worst of it next time around. You're trying to turn my knowledge against me, but doing it as clumsily as a one-armed chimpanzee with a developmental disability trying to pull off aikido.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...