01-16-2017, 01:24 PM
Deregulate all new drugs, it's a barrier to innovation!
Quote:What do you do when a pharmaceutical company creates a drug that doesn’t do what it says it does, the FDA approves it, and literally thousands of people die?Purdue: Drug Company or Genocidal Maniac?
The Los Angeles Times found that contrary to marketing claims that “one dose” of OxyContin “relieves pain for 12 hours, more than twice as long as generic medications” but consistent with Purdue’s own internal research, “the drug wears off hours early in many people.”
“Over the last 20 years,” write Harriet Ryan, Lisa Girion, and Scott Glover, “more than 7 million Americans have abused OxyContin, according to the federal government’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health. The drug is widely blamed for setting off the nation’s prescription opioid epidemic, which has claimed more than 190,000 lives from overdoses involving OxyContin and other painkillers since 1999.” At the same time, as Purdue notes in a one-page statement responding to detailed questions from the Times’ reporters, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) “approved OxyContin as a 12-hour drug.”