OxyContin for 6-year-olds

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Purdue Pharma, makers of the painkiller OxyContin, are going to seek U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to label it for use by children as young as 6.

Oxycontin earned them $2.8 billion last year but drug companies have a tiny window in which they can make any money so they are always looking for creative ways to extend that. Even a 6-month extension is a billion bucks so Purdue is putting together a pediatric trial which will involve 154 children ages 6 to 16 that would finish in August, 2013.

Obviously for children in pain the ability of doctors to go 'off-label' is a good thing, but this isn't just about the kids. And the data on what an opiod could do to a very young brain basically does not exist.

http://www.science20.com/cool-links/oxycontin_6yearolds-91671
 
So basically instead of parents worrying about drug dealers dealing to their kids on the playground, the playground is going to be the place to be dealt drugs.

Score some oxy from the kids nodding on the swingset.

ADD meds are by the monkeybars.


Edit: Just one more:
"I can go meet up with the dude in 20 minutes when he goes outside for recess."
 
Carl Landrover said:
So basically instead of parents worrying about drug dealers dealing to their kids on the playground, the playground is going to be the place to be dealt drugs.

Score some oxy from the kids nodding on the swingset.

ADD meds are by the monkeybars.


Edit: Just one more:
"I can go meet up with the dude in 20 minutes when he goes outside for recess."
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LOLOLOLOLLOLOL RECESS.
Carl, you've always been a hilarious/awesome BLer IMO, but this is one of the best things i've ever seen on BL
2 thumbs up to you sir.
One day i hope to buy you dope (but i'mma have to wait till study hall to meet up with the dboy)
 
sekio said:
So what, kids in pain get pills but adult people who have legit chronic pain get told to stuff it? Huh?
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People of all ages should have access to safe and effective pain medication. It should be a fundamental right of human beings, and no such medications (drugs) should be withheld from people who are suffering.

But if we don't know how opiates affect children's' brains, it seems premature to give them opiates.
Thus, the study the article talks about!

As for making Oxy illegal for adults, that is just another bullshit trick of the drug war.
 
Carl Landrover said:
So basically instead of parents worrying about drug dealers dealing to their kids on the playground, the playground is going to be the place to be dealt drugs.

Score some oxy from the kids nodding on the swingset.

ADD meds are by the monkeybars.


Edit: Just one more:
"I can go meet up with the dude in 20 minutes when he goes outside for recess."
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Should be Xanax at the monkey bars IMO.
 
shimazu said:
put some tussin on it
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LOL I gather you are a Chris Rock fan. :)

This really is ridiculous to me, surely almost no child as young as 6 could need such a powerful painkiller and in the exceedingly rare situation it was warranted they would have access without this relabelling. Purdue pharma are seriously greedy sons of bitches.
 
This is madness, reminds me of cigarette advertising to children.
 
There are seome seripusly greedy bastards at perdue pharma. Even in extreme cases of kids with chronic pain there are other drugs and other options. Are they going to make like 5mg 12hr pain pills for the kids tiny bodies? Because unless your kid has a tolerance a 40mg oxy would have them sick all day. Not to mention making life long addictcs out of these kids. Ive read that when opiates are abused by young kids their risk of future addiction goes up like crazy. This would just make for more problems.
 
It's like they want to keep us drugged up from the cradle to the grave.
But only as long as we are on drugs that they can provide us with and tax us for.
 
I don't see why everyone is freaking out. Kids are already administered opioids of various sorts when required. If the kid has a genuine need for pain control, he or she deserves effective meds. Oxy is really effective and convenient as an oral opioid. So why not let kids have it IF they need it. Some kids do have genuine need for pain control
 
yes but i would say the need for child-specific painkillers is about as dire as the need for Perdue to increase their profits
 
But if we don't know how opiates affect children's' brains, it seems premature to give them opiates.
Thus, the study the article talks about
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we don't know how it effects adult brains either...

i think childhood (and earlier) is an absolutely critical time to minimize pain. pain can scar an adult.. and it can permanently alter a child.

mothers who go to the methadone clinic have better babies if they stay on the methadone. we do have that data...
 
rangrz said:
I don't see why everyone is freaking out. Kids are already administered opioids of various sorts when required. If the kid has a genuine need for pain control, he or she deserves effective meds. Oxy is really effective and convenient as an oral opioid. So why not let kids have it IF they need it. Some kids do have genuine need for pain control
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That's what I was thinking...
 
Seems like a good excuse to smack your kids around...

Also, kids aren't impervious to liking a high. I wouldn't doubt at all that if this were to happen that lots of stupid parents would think their 8 year old is responsible enough to take his oxy after he brushes his teeth but I bet a lot would try chewing them and ending up dead.
 
14 is almost too young for oxy... 6 is just child abuse and no better than tobacco companies making their ads look like 5 gum ads so 12-year-olds buy them.
 
The Network said:
14 is almost too young for oxy... 6 is just child abuse and no better than tobacco companies making their ads look like 5 gum ads so 12-year-olds buy them.
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this overgeneralization is illogical and it would be child abuse to ignore a child's pain imo.

some people need effective pain medication. if you fall off a bike and get huge burns, you're going to do a lot better psychologically the faster that pain is treated. the pain will last less long if it's treated better and faster. if it's not treated, the kid's pain tolerance will become worse not better.
 
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