The Opioid Crisis

[clubgop]

Oh they are, but defense lawyers make a mint on defending professional licenses. It's just amazing to me the stellar, almost untouchable reputation doctors as whole receive. Just about everybody here up and down the thread want to give doctors every bit of the doubt.

Not me. I think they are the key. Problem is most doctors are bought and paid for by big pharma.

The biggest problem is the media. The amount of advertising money they get from pharma is staggering. You will never hear a bad word about them on MSM.

Same thing I was saying. +1

He gets a pass because he is foreign, you don't even though you are a fucking idiot who is wrong about everything. Everything? Fucking everything.

[heydaralon]

I think the media is pretty hard on big pharma right now. Every day there is a story on the opioid epidemic, oxy, fentanyl etc. That whole Shkreli debacle where he raised the AIDS toxoplasmosis drug price for the 2000 people that were using that drug and the media crucified him. It was more complicated than that, but that is how the news played it. Pharma really hasn't gotten a lot of good headlines lately that I can recall.

[clubgop]

I think the media is pretty hard on big pharma right now. Every day there is a story on the opioid epidemic, oxy, fentanyl etc. That whole Shkreli debacle where he raised the AIDS toxoplasmosis drug price for the 2000 people that were using that drug and the media crucified him. It was more complicated than that, but that is how the news played it. Pharma really hasn't gotten a lot of good headlines lately that I can recall.

Everyone talks about the ads but what do those ads do? They tell you to see your doctor. You have to see your doctor to get this shit. All it does is get people to see their doctor. Unless you have one of those bad doctors there is nothing wrong with that.

[Penner]

Here is one of those 1990s pharma videos that they used to sell drugs like Oxycotton:

Very good, 1998 was almost 20 years ago. How long does a pharmacy patent last? Not 2 decades, dumbass.

Oh, so you are trying to say that 20 years ago that pharma companies were pushing Oxycotton like the non-addictive drug it wasn't?

[SuburbanFarmer]

I think the media is pretty hard on big pharma right now. Every day there is a story on the opioid epidemic, oxy, fentanyl etc. That whole Shkreli debacle where he raised the AIDS toxoplasmosis drug price for the 2000 people that were using that drug and the media crucified him. It was more complicated than that, but that is how the news played it. Pharma really hasn't gotten a lot of good headlines lately that I can recall.

Everyone talks about the ads but what do those ads do? They tell you to see your doctor. You have to see your doctor to get this shit. All it does is get people to see their doctor. Unless you have one of those bad doctors there is nothing wrong with that.

Exactly. The big push is on the doctors. All their marketing effort goes to lobbying doctors for more prescriptions.

[MilSpecs]

Funny how I never saw an "Adriamycin. I got my life back. See your doctor." commercial.

[Penner]

[Penner]

[clubgop]

I think the media is pretty hard on big pharma right now. Every day there is a story on the opioid epidemic, oxy, fentanyl etc. That whole Shkreli debacle where he raised the AIDS toxoplasmosis drug price for the 2000 people that were using that drug and the media crucified him. It was more complicated than that, but that is how the news played it. Pharma really hasn't gotten a lot of good headlines lately that I can recall.

Everyone talks about the ads but what do those ads do? They tell you to see your doctor. You have to see your doctor to get this shit. All it does is get people to see their doctor. Unless you have one of those bad doctors there is nothing wrong with that.

Exactly. The big push is on the doctors. All their marketing effort goes to lobbying doctors for more prescriptions.

They can't. The junkets are gone, the trips are gone, they can only sponsor continuing education which is an occasional chicken dinner. No cheap pens, clocks, or notepads, have you seen drug reps lately? Not as hot as they used to be it is a damn shame.

[clubgop]

Here is one of those 1990s pharma videos that they used to sell drugs like Oxycotton:

Very good, 1998 was almost 20 years ago. How long does a pharmacy patent last? Not 2 decades, dumbass.

Oh, so you are trying to say that 20 years ago that pharma companies were pushing Oxycotton like the non-addictive drug it wasn't?