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Wednesday, September 03, 2003Imagine the reaction if this corporate announcement were ever made: "Wonder Drugs Inc. has decided to restrict distribution of its new and highly effective painkiller in rural Kentucky. Unlike the rest of America, Kentucky remains too backward to handle a powerful narcotic like ours. "The state's rural doctors, pharmacists and law enforcement agencies are not up to meeting their professional responsibilities or providing the public protections our medication requires and receives elsewhere. Thus, our only choice is to protect Kentuckians from themselves by restricting access to the proven pain relief that other Americans enjoy, and we urge all other manufacturers of pain medications susceptible to abuse to do the same. "Wonder Drugs will henceforth withhold from rural Kentucky our normal marketing, informational and distribution efforts. Corporate policy will be to treat the family physicians and community druggists of rural Kentucky not as the competent professionals the state's licensure boards claim they are, but as the clueless pill pushers the state's record of prescription drug abuse shows them to be." The editorial points out that Kentucky has a long history of drug problems that go far beyond OxyContin: In a state where sheriffs are being killed over drug corruption and doctors were able to operate a regionally famous pill outlet, Purdue Pharma's sales tactics rank low on the list of public outrages. Kentucky is a state that with a few exceptions, doesn't allow the sale of alcohol. There are parts of it where you have to drive for two hours to be able to buy a beer. No wonder they turn to drugs. posted by Sydney on 9/03/2003 08:20:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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