Some Mexican pharmacies are selling full bottles of Adderall. But it's meth

Re:Some Mexican pharmacies are selling full bottles of Adder... by NewsyHacker on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:28PM (#38729764)

The shock you felt is a bit like the shock many foreigners feel when visiting the US, and seeing a consistent flow of television commercials with “Ask your doctor about X.” (Direct marketing of prescription drugs is banned in most of the developed world.)

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Re:Some Mexican pharmacies are selling full bottles of Adder... by seanp2k2 on Thursday December 21, 2023 @09:30PM (#38730218)

I also just don't understand how it's profitable to run those ads in the US, given how niche some of the conditions are...like I'm pretty sure that if you have cancer, you're going to be asking your doctor about a lot of things anyway. What's the point of advertising cancer / lupus / drugs that extremely specific conditions that <0.1% of the US population have?

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Re:Some Mexican pharmacies are selling full bottles of Adder... by peyton on Friday December 22, 2023 @12:01AM (#38731113)

The math is such that you basically need to reach _every_ patient or you’re fucked.

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Re:Some Mexican pharmacies are selling full bottles of Adder... by methou on Friday December 22, 2023 @02:03AM (#38731704)

And also gambling and personal loan ads, these are so wild.

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Re:Some Mexican pharmacies are selling full bottles of Adder... by Whoppertime on Thursday January 04, 2024 @04:22AM (#38864911)

But hey it makes people from New Zealand feel right at home

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