A few documentaries I've watched suggest that the dosages as recommended by the drug companies are designed to induce withdrawal symptoms before the next dose is due during treatment, I'd wager that's a good way to induce dependence during the course of treatment.
The hypocrisy of the law when it comes to this is insane, but given how large the profits are and the power that money commands with lobbying, I'm not really surprised.
Honestly, that sounds very conspiratorial and baseless. It assumes doctors are idiots and drug producers are comic book villains. Reality is more nuanced.
> Purdue has known about the problem for decades. Even before OxyContin went on the market, clinical trials showed many patients weren’t getting 12 hours of relief. Since the drug’s debut in 1996, the company has been confronted with additional evidence, including complaints from doctors, reports from its own sales reps and independent research.
Comic book villainy quickly dissolves into nuanced realism when you distribute the elements of the "conspiracy" over the org chart. Then you end up with a lot of people who wanted to believe and mutually reassure each other that everything was fine, resulting in collective blindness to the evil they were doing.
The hypocrisy of the law when it comes to this is insane, but given how large the profits are and the power that money commands with lobbying, I'm not really surprised.