History of Opioids
In what century did Opioids become a treatment of pain?
What is the 1800s?
The family that started Purdue Pharma.
What is the Sackler Brothers?
The drug that Oxycontin branched from.
What is Oxycodone?
The decade that Percodan and Percocet entered the market.
What is the 1970s?
Was the market for painkiller prescriptions increasing or decreasing at the time Purdue brought Oxycotin to Market
What is increasing?
The decade in which Oxycontin became available on the market.
What is the 1990s (1996)?
The decade when the sale of heroin was banned due to addictive properties.
What is the 1920s?
The business department that Purdue Pharma pumped 200 million dollars into.
What is marketing/advertising?
The two specific reasons that Oxycontin was different than other painkillers on the market.
What is an effective and extended pain relief with reduced addictive qualities?
The name of the Company that originally made Heroin in 1898.
What is the Bayer Company?
The group of people the chairmen and president of Purdue blamed for people being addicts.
What are the abusers of the drug?
What are Primary care Physicians?
The one major use of Opioids in the 1900s mentioned in the article.
What is a cough suppressant?
The amount of money that Purdue Pharma owed in fines in 2007.
What is 600 million dollars?
The organization that wrote a book in the 2000s citing evidence for opioid addictions were limited and their use effective.
What is the joint commission?