She prays with her family every day and even works out. Betsy Relapses Againīetsy has been doing her best to stay on the right path. He even declines Amber’s offer to go home with him and he’s had a huge crush on her for years. He has generated a billion dollars for the pharmaceutical company but over the last few months, he has become dissatisfied with selling Oxycontin. Martin Willis is Purdue Pharma’s top sales rep. The blood charts were false and according to an analyst, the only way it could have made it through the FDA’s approval process is if someone turned a blind eye. They began to backtrack through the evidence that they have been building and they discover that Purdue Pharma has paid off a lot of people to get its drug approves for use when they realized that the Oxycontin blood charts have tampered with it. Prosecutors Rick and Randy realize that they have been working on the case for three years. People that started to abuse the drug went on to use harder drugs like heroin. Bridget puts together a report that shows that 98% of Oxycotin deaths were a result of patients taking the drug with other non-lethal medications. It’s obvious that Purdue Pharma has him in their pocket as well.
Bridget visits a Drug Enforcement Agency museum where the highly regarded Rudy Giuliana gives a presentation highlighting the benefits of Oxycotin and why it’s such a transformative medication. The corruption surrounding this pharmaceutical company and the government agencies runs deep! Small VictoriesĪlthough Bridget Meyer’s marriage is falling apart she does experience a small victory when she lands a meeting with the Food & Drug Administration and they agree to take action against the lain medication if she can provide proof that it’s unsafe to consume even when used as prescribed. After the meeting with U.S Attorney McCloskey, we find out that McCloskey eve talky takes a job to work for Purdue Pharma. This is unsettling for Richard Slacker and he tells Dr.Friedman to skip out on the meeting. Richard Slacker invites Dr.Friedman to attend and then immediately takes back his offer when Dr.Friedman makes it clear that they should talk about the measures that they should be taken against the addicts that are giving the medication a bad reputation. The U.S Attorney of Maine Jay McCloskey decides to take matters into his own hand by sending letters to physicians in Maine about the dangers of Oxycotin, this forces Richard Slacker to have to sit down with the attorney.
He calls one of his old patients that has addiction issues and asks her to consider Methadone treatment. Methadone proves to be a success for Dr.Finnix and it has him hopeful for the future again.
Leah suggests that they find a clinic that’s focused on truly helping opioid addicts and Dr. Finnix is hesitant to try methadone because he believes that it would be trading one addiction for another. Leah suggests that he tries out a methadone clinic. Finnix claims he doesn’t remember calling and admits that he has started using again. Finnix is using again after she receives a mysterious call from him the night before. Finnix is released but he’s nervous that he’ll start to crave Oxycontin again. After spending three months in rehab, Dr. Finnix recounts his story and admits that some of his patients have died off of the opioid prescriptions that he wrote. Sammuel Finnix a trusted physician’s downward spiral was painful then hearing other victims of Oxycontin relay their stories are even more heartbreaking. Finnix in group therapy at a high-end rehabilitation center.
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Purdue Pharma keeps is adamant about concealing the harmful side effects of Oxycotin even to the point of purposefully getting an employee addicted to the drug and giving her the boot for being an addict because she discovered an online forum dedicated to teaching people how to to get high off the drug. Finnix and Betsy reached all-new lows and they both were forced to seek treatment for their addiction.