[whitney69]

“Big win for pharmaceutical companies.”

Those companies are not isuing or perscribing them. You want to get on someone, get on the docs and on the public for not using better methods to track and limit their prescribing. If people need a drug according to the AMA watched over by the FDA, the companies make it. But the companies do not prescribe, issue, or have any say who they go to. So why blame them?

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[nickcarraway]

LOL. Sorry, I know a lot of doctors. I remember a pharmaceutical rep coming to my friend's father, and she said something like, "We notice you aren't prescribing very much Drug X, what can we do to help you get the levels up?" Oh, and most of these reps were inexplicably very attractive females.

I guess you don't know, everyone in the FDA with any power is a former (and often future) pharmaceutical executive. And workers who are "to strict" about approving drugs are pressure out of the FDA.

And let's not forget the pharmaceutical industry meeting with President Obama, and "helped him write" the Affordable Care Act.

[nickcarraway]

Also, you inferred the blame, I just said it was a win for them. But, yes, they deserve plenty of blame.