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passiveporcupine

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1. Drug ads are making the pharmcos huge profits

Reply to zebonaut (Original post)

Fri May 13, 2016, 12:42 PM

May 2016

and yet we pay for the ads in the cost of our meds.

But they do sell product this way. Instead of your doctor prescribing a med when you need it, people go in asking for certain meds because of the ads. Take a magic pill and your life will be wonderful.

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An actual drug company ad. (May cause severe infections, cancer, seizures, death, etc....) [View all] zebonaut May 2016 OP

Drug ads are making the pharmcos huge profits passiveporcupine May 2016 #1

I have heard that their R&D budgets are just a fraction of what they spend on advertising. Skeeter Barnes May 2016 #2

I don't know how that shakes out, passiveporcupine May 2016 #4

Big Pharma has lobbied to water down the FDA requirements for new drugs. dixiegrrrrl May 2016 #5

A little off topic, but, I was at tom_kelly May 2016 #6

Ask _Your Doctor to say "NO" to Big Pharma zebonaut May 2016 #3