made him the highest prescriber of oxy in the country tally accused other doctors of not doing their jobs correctly by not giving people oxy aside from the marketing and advertising the abuse of oxy also comes down to the dosage doctors have said if a patient is taking more painkillers than prescribed that's their problem not the doctors and to some extent yes that's true only take what you're prescribed that's common sense right but on the other side of the coin there's the fact that purdue purposefully set these patients up for failure the new yorker writes one of purdue's initial advertising campaigns featured a photograph of two little dosage cups one marked NUMBER_TOKEN am and the other marked NUMBER_TOKEN pm and the words remember effective relief takes just NUMBER_TOKEN. but internal purdue documents which have emerged through litigation show that even before the company received fda approval it was aware that not all patients who took oxycontin were achieving NUMBER_TOKEN-hour relief a recent expose by the los angeles times revealed that the first patients to use oxycontin in a study conducted by perdue were NUMBER_TOKEN women recovering from surgery in puerto rico roughly half the women required more medication before the NUMBER_TOKEN-hour mark the study was never published for purdue the business reason for obscuring the results was clear the claim of NUMBER_TOKEN-hour relief was an invaluable marketing tool but prescribing a pill on a NUMBER_TOKEN-hour schedule when for many patients it works only eight is a recipe for withdrawal addiction and abuse notwithstanding purdue's claims many people who are not drug abusers and only took oxycontin exactly as their doctors instructed began experiencing withdrawal symptoms between doses even if you followed your doctor's orders perfectly that didn't mean you wouldn't suffer i took a look at this l.a times expose and it will obviously be down to my sources as well if you want to read through it but purdue deliberately told doctors to prescribe stronger doses not more frequent ones when patients began to complain and these withdrawals create body aches nausea anxiety and a whole host of other symptoms the moment the patient is relieved by the next dose the risk of dependency and abuse increases one woman named elizabeth kipp describes her experience with oxy in this article and explains that she struggled with back pain since NUMBER_TOKEN years old when she was thrown from a horse then when she was NUMBER_TOKEN years old in NUMBER_TOKEN her doctor prescribed her oxycontin and told her to take it every NUMBER_TOKEN hours kip is a scientist very regimented and so she followed his instructions perfectly according to kip for the first two or three hours she experienced a modicum of relief then her pain roared back accompanied by nausea she said in an interview only the next pill would relieve her suffering she spent hours lying rigidly on her bed waiting i was watching the clock what time is it oh god i have to medicate she said my whole nervous system is on red alert when she complained to her doctor he gave her stronger doses but kept her on the NUMBER_TOKEN-hour schedule just as purdue instructs for a year and a half kip cycled through misery and relief some days even contemplating taking her own life eventually she checked into rehab and no longer takes painkillers back in the early NUMBER_TOKENs people like kip started to form their own group dedicated to taking on purdue rapp
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