prompt: Can you tell me how opioid drugs became popular for pain management treatments in the US in the pharmaceutical industry?
chosen.content: Can you tell me how opioid drugs became popular for pain management treatments in the US in the pharmaceutical industry?
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chosen.content: In the late 1990s, the pharmaceutical industry aggressively marketed opioid medications, such as Oxycontin, to physicians for the treatment of pain. They argued that these drugs were safer and more effective than other pain relief alternatives and that they had a lower potential for abuse. Despite warnings from medical experts and regulatory boards, the popularity of opioid drugs steadily grew over the next decade. Unfortunately, this led to a sharp rise in the misuse of opioids, due to the powerful feelings of euphoria they can produce when abused.
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rejected.content: Can you tell me how opioid drugs became popular for pain management treatments in the US in the pharmaceutical industry?
rejected.role: user
rejected.content: In the late 1990s, the pharmaceutical industry started developing and marketing new opioid drugs that were more effective and had a shorter duration of action than previous generations of pain medicines. These new drugs offered pain relief with fewer side effects than prior opioids, and were seen as a promising treatment for chronic pain and post-surgical pain. As a result, these drugs became extremely popular for pain management treatments in the United States.  Unfortunately, as use of these drugs began to rise, so did the rate of opioid abuse and addiction.
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