What I want to know is how are the standards for research and medicine so bad that antiinflammatories are handed out like candy, provided the headline is true?

What I want to know is how are the standards for research and medicine so bad that antiinflammatories are handed out like candy, provided the headline is true? Nobody ever did long term studies on one of the most popular kind of OTC medications, especially for their effect on pain, given that that's the main thing you'd look at for something marketed as a pain reliever?!