Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’

Re:Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’ by cgb223 on Friday October 12, 2018 @08:08PM (#18205577)

How do you think people would react to a major corporation selling heroin?

Is that going well for the existing companies selling OxyContin?

Is it going well for the people prescribed it, or are they abusing/ODing on that as well?

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Re:Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’ by jowsie on Saturday October 13, 2018 @07:21AM (#18207452)

You do realise that heroin is still used in hospitals all across the world on a daily basis for routine surgeries. A company is making and selling that heroin.

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Re:Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’ by User23 on Saturday October 13, 2018 @01:53AM (#18206654)

You mean for example Bayer? They lost the Heroin trademark the same time they lost the Aspirin trademark, due to the war. Both were a product of the acetylate all the things school of medicinal chemistry.

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Re:Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’ by nyolfen on Saturday October 13, 2018 @02:02AM (#18206669)

yes, for instance bayer, a company that still regularly gets trotted out to highlight the evils of pharma companies for among other things selling heroin one hundred years ago

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Re:Trapped by the ‘Walmart of Heroin’ by pharrington on Friday October 12, 2018 @09:23PM (#18205853)

Purdue Pharma is still doing pretty damn well. The problem isn't in using opiates to treat pain - it is Purdue's marketing actively lying about the addiction potential of OxyContin.

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