I find those ads really annoying, but they're not directed to the doctors, but to the consumers of medical services. Diabetes treatments are apparently a really lucrative market along with hepatitis C, but I really don't see any ads for pain pills.
My response to you was in regards to your comment to Grace and it wasn’t about pain pills.
Pharmaceutical reps leave copious samples with doctors. Consumers see the advertising, and ask their doctor if the medication is “right for them”. It’s big business.
Yeah, no real pain pill commercials besides off the shelf stuff of course. But I do see I plenty of ‘opioid related constipation medication’ commercials. That’s fairly new I guess. If they are playing that stuff you know there must be something going on that is different with opioids/heroin fairly recently.
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