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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > C-SPAM > Why isn't Big Pharma pushing for legal drugs?
 
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Doorknob Slobber
Sep 10, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

etalian posted:

They basically did this for opioid painkillers by marketing them as cost effective pain management medicine to doctors.

When people started getting addicted, the same companies started selling treatment for the same medicines they originally got the doctors to overprescribe.

:capitalism:

while at the same time lobbying to keep the straight stuff illegal

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