Rick Santorum Tells Sick Kid Market Should Should Set Drug Prices /////Are they this stupid?

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53. Little change to D for ya

The original "balding" drug is Minoxidil. It wasn't invented as a hair-regrowth drug, but as a blood pressure medicine. It has the side effect of causing fine body hairs to grow at a faster rate in many of the patients who take the drug for hypertension. Someone outside the company had the bright idea to dissolve a Minoxidil tablet in rubbing alcohol and put it on his head, and his hair grew back. Next thing you know, that's the main use of it.

Sildenafil was also created as a hypertension and angina drug. It became what it is when they found out it doesn't improve your angina but it does make your dick hard.

You could probably go through all the "lifestyle" drugs and come to the conclusion that they were invented as "serious" drugs, to treat diseases, and therefore their development was funded by the government, but that their lifestyle uses came out by accident.

Oh yeah...on edit...G through Z should also be "Santorum is an asshole."