Do you agree with the recent lawsuit by Kentucky to sue the makers of Oxycontin?

Well now that the ball is rolling... let's get it going faster. Sue all restaurants - causes you to get fat. Sue gun manufacturers - causes people to get shot. Canned Air - causes you to feel high, but then you die. Beer, Liquor, Wine - well you get the point.

I could continue this list for a very long time. The answer really is that people need to be responsible for themselves. And just because some abuse it or choose to do the wrong thing doesn't mean they should get to run to mommy and whine that "they made me do it".

It's not so much the issue of prescribed usage - it's the issue the Kentucky is blaming the drug company for non-prescription use aka the junkies.

People choose to be a junkie - prescribed oxycontin while addictive served a great purpose for people with pain that was not controlled by other treatments. Yes, some physicians developed diarrhea of the pen and wrote needless prescriptions - but they do that with antibiotics as well.....and mistreatment with antibiotics is causing "super" bugs resistant to antibiotic therapy.

The issue for Kentucky was the junkies - and I'm sorry....a junkie is a junkie - they chose to be that way. For pete sake people sniff paint to get high - so it goes to show that that mentality will abuse anything!

I think it was wrong that the drug company did not warn prescribed users of the extreme addictive nature of the drug - but the junkies are all on their own. If it wasn't prescribed for you then you never should have been on it in the first place, and therefore were due no warning.

I too am going thru legal steps in a lawsuit! My case involved the city not finishing the brickwork at the curb of a busy street, and my falling into it and being thrown into the street where a moving bus was going by, I hit the bus, and was squeezed in between the curb and the bus. I went to see a lawyer because I have also accumulated a stack of bills in the thousands, that I can not and WILL NOT pay. My lawyer said not to worry about it, and that the bills WILL BE PAID. So dont worry about it, no matter the outcome, the bills will be paid in your case as well.This letter of demand you speak of may just be a demand that your bills be paid, and the pain and suffering suit will come separately. His secretary should be able to answer this for you also. Give his office a call.

Okay, here is the bottom line......Like Guns for example..."GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE."

Pain Pills don't addict people, People addict themselves. Time for Americans who are sue happy to be accountable for their actions.

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