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Mosby

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4. They marketed their product like every other pharmaceutical company does.

Reply to RainCaster (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 17, 2020, 07:02 PM

Dec 2020

And they deserve fines, but they have been put out of business, filed bankruptcy. Will walgrees and CVS go under? Who knows. They are being sued as well via class action. Same with distributors.

Funny how the tobacco companies Altria and rj Reynolds are still going strong, because unlike oxycontin, there is no safe amount of tobacco use, its poison. But they settled with the lawyers during a different era.

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I'm not buying it RainCaster Dec 2020 #1

How many scripts did purdue write? Mosby Dec 2020 #2

Purdue promised everyone up and down the supply chain that it was not addictive RainCaster Dec 2020 #3

They marketed their product like every other pharmaceutical company does. Mosby Dec 2020 #4