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Jnew28

(931 posts)
Tue May 24, 2016, 09:49 PM May 2016

Making Money Off the Sick is a Sick Idea! [View all]

Please read: http://stupidpartymathvmyth.com/1/post/2016/05/making-money-off-sick-sick-idea.html

"Now here’s the real kicker. OxyContin wasn’t even a new drug. Purdue took an old cheap narcotic called oxycodone (used in Percocet and Roxicodone) and added a poorly functioning time-release mechanism, and then called it OxyContin. This drug was not a medical breakthrough at all, but they certainly pitched it as the twice a day. Commonsense doctors would have never allowed for a $31 billion rip off breakthrough that ends the problem of taking medication multiple times a day. It was the only benefit that they could pitch to doctors.

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