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It is wrong but this is big pharma we're talking about. I find it very hard to trust their "suggestions" and subtleties. That's how you go into these drugs, wit

• tempguy9999 7y ago
  Oh god yes. But you can't trust any organisation in general that's grown large and is profit-oriented. This isn't quite in line, as it's about the 1960s when they were going mad with new drugs, IIRC a sleeping pill was sold that had a barbiturate shell that knocked you out. This was designed to take ~8 hours to dissolve away, and at the core was a lump of amphetamine to bounce you back to eager wakefulness. Granted people were a bit naive back then but it must have been obvious such things were not intrinsically safe, but dammit we have sales targets! I worked in the area and I remember being told a story about a drug being approved for use based on the word of the top exec of the drug's manufacturer that it was safe, and a handshake. That's all. This would be in the late 70's. Things have been very much tightened up since then, but still.