Kids: the New Guinea Pigs for Oxycontin Maker Purdue Pharma

Smh we cannot care for all those whose lives this damn drug has destroyed as it is, is it not enough that you are now going after the babies! Lets fix the epidemic we have, can we do that??? With hundreds dying everyday due to overdose to your pain pills and heroin that began with oxycontin wtf are you thinking???

Miss Skolek, my name is Megan Steiner. I am Deborah Steiner's daughter, the daughter of the woman you dare to compare to Mengele. I am also a chronically ill teenager - since the age of 12 I have suffered immensely due to a one in ten million condition, and "Aunt Steiner" has suffered by my side, watching her child misdiagnosed, mistreated, and literally screaming in pain more often than not. My mother has indeed been my "protector" - she worked in this field prior to my illness, and she did so and does so because she believes that no child should suffer. If it weren't for medications such as Oxycontin, which I have been prescribed in the past, though I am currently on another opiate, I would still be bedridden. Without my pain, I have been able to not only get out of bed, but to get into one of the top colleges in the country and battle my illness on my feet. Without people like my mother, who you have so cruelly demonized, children and teens like me could never live, not a real life. Addiction and dependency are real issues, of course, but does that mean that children in severe pain, those who truly need relief from the hell that is chronic pain, should be denied the possibility to escape the prisons that their bodies have become? Opiates were my last resort - nobody wanted to prescribe a child opiates - but they have given me a chance at a real life, one that I cherish. So while you so sarcastically and hatefully call my mother "Steiner the protector," I do view my mother as a true protector - she protects the hopes for a pain-free, or at least a less painful life for very sick children who so desperately need that hope whilst drowning in the depths of despair and hopelessness that come with a life-sentence of pain when that life has barely begun.
My mother is no Dr. Mengele, Miss Skolek. She is a doctor who believes in helping children, not tricking them. Many drugs can be abused, and many drug companies produce such drugs. I am sorry for your daughter's fate, but for every girl like your daughter, there is a girl like me. And as you fight for children like your daughter, protecting them from pharmaceutical companies, my mother stands by me and those like me every day, hoping to help build us a better, pain-free future.
Perhaps, Miss Skolek, when you next choose vilify some MD, you will take a moment to consider that, perhaps, behind that MD is a good person with a loving family.

Sincerely,
Megan Steiner, or as I may now call myself, ["Steiner the Protector" of my mom"]

Editor: Right, well it is quite obvious that you would rally for this woman under any conditions because she is your MOM.  Funny that nobody else is put out by this, in fact it is quite the opposite.  People are grossed out and sickened by these money grubbing drug pushers who are all in it for the profits.  Hell, I'll bet you have some digs don't you?  Unlike all of  the kids resting six feet underground because of overdoses and issues related to good old Oxycontin and its contemporaries, your mom probably has a nice mansion for you to live and and what, the best schools?  There are methods at pain management but obviously you would only know about the ones that are drug induced.  I would like to know if you are even who you claim to be.  I am laughing, calling Marianne 'cruel' and claiming she 'demonizes' your mom, please... All of you on hard drugs, no matter what, these doctors are making you into addicts.  Medical marijuana is the unaddressed answer because the corporate cronies keep 'demonizing' that substance with a high level of inaccuracy.  Write a letter to the drug czar.  

I am a former addict to oxycontin and if I only knew how badly it was gonna affect my life I never would have started to take it. I'm not trying to sound like a broken record but every addicted person,when really thinking about it, feels the same way. I was using 2000mg a day, which never got me high anymore and I lost everything I had dear to me including my wife and three kids. I can only say that starting children on this experiment is just asking for more people to become addicted and potentially being responsible for starting them on a path to addiction. So I think its wrong and parents shouldn't decide their fate,the children should make that decision when they become adults to make the choice for themselves.

Kids dont deserve pain relief??

Why on earth would anyone allow or want to put their sick child on a trial of any drug that does not cure illness? unless the parents are junkies and are trying to get to the childs meds. back when i was a practicing addict (heroin) and was stupid enough to get on the methadone clinic- there were so many high school kids there on methadone due to addiction to Oxy. I guess their parents signed consent because they didnt know what else to do and the kids and clinic staff convinced the parents this was "treatment". most all of the kids i got to know from the clinic have all died from overdoses or are still on methadone (plus oxy, plus xanax, plus various patches). like any methadone clinic- there is a lot of buying/selling/using/trading that goes on in the parking lot- all these kids knew how to shoot Oxy. somethng an old timer like me didnt even know could be done. i sucked it up and went to rehab and have been 100% clean and sober for over 5 years. while it wasnt easy, it's much easier than staying on these drugs and it's much less painful than a funeral. this "study" sucks and will bring many new addicts into the world. it's hard to face the world when you've gotten used to the false feel good feeling of an opiate. but it can be done. it's just a million times harder than if you just left it alone to begin with.