How come pharmaceutical compaqies create medications that are abnormally addictive?

Question:

The war on drugs needs a new target.

I am a scientist. Here is the truth. Drugs manufactured by major drug companies, (oxycontin, roxicodone, oxydose) all have such severe withdrawal symptoms that people are dying. The addictive nature of the medication makes it so that once a person has been prescribed the medication and maintains an active dosage it becomes almost impossible to live without. The withdrawal symptoms are not only more severe short term, there are lingering symptoms that border on severe pain to kidney and liver malfunction.

Now they have went and created a black market by making it “scary” for a doctor to prescribe the right amount of medication and people who are legitimately in pain are seeking out medications without being able to consult a Dr. If you could go to the DR and get what you needed, would there be a black market, and even if there was, is it significant enough to trample our rights?
I plead the fifth amendmen

Answers:
It's my personal opinion that the creation of medicine was originally based on the good intention of getting people well when other methods had failed. But today's healthcare system is all about the "remedy," or the immediate quick fix. Weak bladder? Take a pill. Impotence? Take a pill. Pain (which is body's natural way of telling us something is wrong)? Fever or inflammation (also the body's natural way of dealing with infection)? Take a pill. Now, we're so trained to treat the symptom with medication instead of fixing the problem, that we need all these pills to treat the side effects from other pills.

I'm not saying all medication is bad, because there are times when it is necessary for survival, but nowadays we're so focused on the quick fix that most people don't want to get healthy the right way - with diet, exercise, or resting. I'm not going to say that all drug companies are keeping their best interest in mind by purposely keeping us "sick," but I can't deny the fact that the pharmaceutical is a multi-million (multi-billion?) dollar industry.

So is the addiction all about the money? Or is it the fact that people are demanding faster, more "effective" (stop the pain for longer) pain killers because they've built a tolerance to OTC and other pain meds? In all honesty, I think the addiction might come from the fact that mankind is arrogant enough to assume that we know enough about the human body to be able to control it. But the truth is that we don't (remember Vioxx and the long term heart disease/attack scandal?), and that's when innocent people suffer from unforseen side effects.

Other Answers:
I think that most of pain killers which produce addiction are intended to be used by pple who realy have untolerable pain like the cancer pple. who may live all there life in pain & sometimes the pain could kill them more than the disease itself . & if there's some pple misuse that drugs ,it will be thier fault not anyone's else
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my study

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