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Entity here thats responsible, but there was a lot of money to be made by promoting the treatment of pain to the highest level. big pharma made a lot of money on this. and i was taught in residency you give people as much pain medicine as they need. you get them out of pain. we will judge your hospital. we will judge your emergency room based on your pain scores. thats how we were taught. and we were also told these medicines werent all that addictive. we started handing out pills like crazy. 10...

Im not going to say theres one entity here thats responsible, but there was a lot of money to be made by promoting the treatment of pain to the highest level. big pharma made a lot of money on this. and i was taught in residency, you give people as much pain medicine as they need. you get them out of pain, well judge your hospital, emergency room based on your pain scores. thats how we were taught. and we were also told that that these medicines arent really all that addictive. we started handin...

Addictive. we started handing out pills like crazy. 100 million americans have chronic pain. so, we did a disservice as doctors and as prescribers like we took data that was bullshit, and then we went forth with it said oh prescribe it to everyone, they wont get addicted. we know what were doing. guess what, we didnt know what we were doing. directv has been rated #1 in customer satisfaction over cable for 17 years running. but some people still like cable. just like some people like banging the...

In medicine -- 1980 -- and doctors started prescribing opioids for pain conditions. and the major driver was the pharmaceutical industry. but in order to understand how this happened its necessary to realize the pharmaceutical industry used a trojan horse like approach to infiltrate what i call big medicine. basically the pharmaceutical industry behind the scenes launched a covert operation in essence to influence academia, to influence the fda, the federation of state medical boards, watchdog o...

Essence to influence academia, to influence the fda, the federation of state medical boards, watchdog organizations that are supposed to keep an eye on how doctors practice. and the pharmaceutical industry ended up perpetrating one of the greatest myths in modern medical history which is if a patient is prescribed an opioid for a pain condition they wont get addicted. now we know thats not true. >> so you have big pharma, the distributors who are wholesalers, the targets of the lawsuit. you have...

Basically the pharmaceutical industry behind the scenes launched a covert operation in essence to influence academia, to influence the fda, the federation of state medical boards, watchdog organizations that are supposed to keep an eye on how doctors practice. and the pharmaceutical industry ended up perpetrating one of the greatest myths in modern medical history which is if a patient is prescribed an opioid for a pain condition they wont get addicted. now we know thats not true. >> so you have...

It? is it doctors fault? who made a mistake here? >> dr. poti: im going to say its complicated. im not going to say theres one entity here thats responsible, but there was a lot of money to be made by promoting the treatment of pain to the highest level. big pharma made a lot of money on this. and i was taught in residency you give people as much pain medicine as they need. you get them out of pain. we will judge your hospital. we will judge your emergency room based on your pain scores. thats h...

And we were also told that these medicines arent all that addicti addictive. we started handing out pills like crazy. 100 million americans have chronic pain. so, we did a disservice as doctors and as prescribers like we took data that was [ bleep ], and then we went forth with it and said prescribe it to everyone, they wont get addicted. guess what, we didnt know what we were doing. afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road.

>> is it the big pharmaceuticals fault? doctors fault? who made a mistake here? >> its complicated. im not going to say theres one entity here thats responsible, but there was a lot of money to be made by promoting the treatment of pain to the highest level. big pharma made a lot of money on this. and i was taught in residency, you give people as much pain medicine as they need. you get them out of pain, well judge your hospital, emergency room based on your pain scores. thats how we were taught...

>> is it big pharmas fault? doctors fault? whose fault is it? >> its complicated. im not going to say theres one entity here thats responsible, but there was a lot of money to be made by promoting the treatment of pain to the highest level. big pharma made a lot of money on this. and i was taught in residency, you give people as much pain medicine as they need. you get them out opain, well judge your hospital, emergency room based on your pain scores. thats how we were taught. and we were also t...