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Would this be affected by the marketing of Oxycontin as a 12-hour pain medication, when it was known that it wears off earlier than that for a significant fract
by MereInterest 9y ago
Would this be affected by the marketing of Oxycontin as a 12-hour pain medication, when it was known that it wears off earlier than that for a significant fraction of the population? Not a lawyer, and so I have no idea how that would affect liability.
http://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/ http://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/
- Alex3917 9y agoI think that's good for around a billion dollars in fines and maybe a few prison sentences, but not for 100+ billion. The basic issue is that even if they purposely got millions of Americans addicted to opiates, being addicted to opiates isn't especially dangerous or harmful in and of itself. If most of the harms come from unrelated government policies then there's only so much damages you can pin on the Pharma companies.