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Revlimid, Humira, Trikafta, I can go on and on. There are many, many great drugs that save people's lives. Obviously Purdue committed crimes with how they marke

by nceqs3 5y ago

Revlimid, Humira, Trikafta, I can go on and on. There are many, many great drugs that save people's lives. Obviously Purdue committed crimes with how they marketed the drug but remember Oxycontin was FDA approved and it had a massive black box warning that said THIS DRUG IS ADDICTIVE.

boomboomsubban 5y ago
>Oxycontin was FDA approved and it had a massive black box warning that said THIS DRUG IS ADDICTIVE. They lied in their submission to get it FDA approved. And that massive black box only appeared 20 years after the introduction of the drug. As I said, they place profit over the wellbeing of people. That doesn't mean they don't save lives, but if it's more profitable to save fewer they'll generally prefer that route.
- sizzle 5y ago
  You are talking about one company peddling one class of highly abusable drugs here, not the whole industry researching and developing life saving drugs that aren’t addictive and abusable to anywhere near the same degree on a neurochemical level. So yes this one company did a bad thing, why tarnish the reputation of cholesterol or plaque reducing, etc. med companies just trying to pay the scientists to create the discoveries and profit to fuel even more molecule research and discoveries?
  - boomboomsubban 5y ago
    >You are talking about one company peddling one class of highly abusable drugs here, Yes, I provided just one example. Here's another one, trying to ensure patent rights on the covid vaccine. Or the common practice of releasing a slightly different version of a medication when the patent expires. >just trying to pay the scientists to create the discoveries and profit to fuel even more molecule research and discoveries? Then why do they have a marketing department and a lobbying budget? They have repeatedly shown they require heavy regulation.

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Revlimid, Humira, Trikafta, I can go on and on. There are many, many great drugs that save people's lives. Obviously Purdue committed crimes with how they marke

by nceqs3 5y ago

boomboomsubban 5y ago
>Oxycontin was FDA approved and it had a massive black box warning that said THIS DRUG IS ADDICTIVE. They lied in their submission to get it FDA approved. And that massive black box only appeared 20 years after the introduction of the drug. As I said, they place profit over the wellbeing of people. That doesn't mean they don't save lives, but if it's more profitable to save fewer they'll generally prefer that route.
- sizzle 5y ago
  You are talking about one company peddling one class of highly abusable drugs here, not the whole industry researching and developing life saving drugs that aren’t addictive and abusable to anywhere near the same degree on a neurochemical level. So yes this one company did a bad thing, why tarnish the reputation of cholesterol or plaque reducing, etc. med companies just trying to pay the scientists to create the discoveries and profit to fuel even more molecule research and discoveries?
  - boomboomsubban 5y ago
    >You are talking about one company peddling one class of highly abusable drugs here, Yes, I provided just one example. Here's another one, trying to ensure patent rights on the covid vaccine. Or the common practice of releasing a slightly different version of a medication when the patent expires. >just trying to pay the scientists to create the discoveries and profit to fuel even more molecule research and discoveries? Then why do they have a marketing department and a lobbying budget? They have repeatedly shown they require heavy regulation.