To me, pharmaceutical companies are just below wife beaters in terms of criminality.
Marketing drugs for off label uses, then after making 200 billion, paying a 7 billion fine.
They Don’t have to and DIDN’T hand in Negative results from antidepressant studies, of which there were many. Why they aren’t obligated to turn over negative results too is beyond me. The FDA has to fix that.
When Oxycontin hit the market, pharma promised it would just be use for extreme cases like cancer patients.
We know how that ended.
Then they make money of suboxone, the drug that gets addicts off of the drug that pharma made in the first place.
It takes, on average, 13 years and more than a billion dollars to bring a new drug to market. The reason for this is mostly due to FDA regulation. Have you ever listened to an ad for a drug therapy? Most of the time is spent warning you of potential negative side effects. Conservatives calling for more FDA regulation boggles the mind. Hundreds of therapies that could help people right now are languishing in years upon years of trials and conservatives are whining about needing more FDA regulations? Good grief.
When Oxycontin hit the market, pharma promised it would just be use for extreme cases like cancer patients.
Say what? Drug companies control how doctors prescribe their products? Oxycontin is a godsend for anyone suffering chronic pain. That it was abused has nothing to do with the company that created it, or the many suffering people that benefit from it.
Urban legend. Unless a source is cited. Otherwise fake news.
There's always money to be made in sustaining the problem.