OxyContin maker wants FDA backing to label addictive drug for 6-year-olds

The maker of OxyContin is seeking Food and Drug Administration approval to label the controversial painkiller for use by children as young as 6 in a move that could serve to extend the company’s expiring patent on the lucrative drug, The Daily has learned.


How sick.

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/07/02/070212-news-oxycontin-kids-1-4/

It would be surprising, except it's not. If you ask a Republican, you'll find that it's just the "free market" at work, making the world a better place for all of us.

I'm sure you heard about this as well:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/glaxosmithkline-pleads-guilty-to-health-fraud-agrees-to-pay-record-3b-in-penalties/2012/07/05/gJQA9wekPW_story.html

Look at the smirking chimps.

Floridatexan wrote:
It would be surprising, except it's not. If you ask a Republican, you'll find that it's just the "free market" at work, making the world a better place for all of us.

I'm sure you heard about this as well:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/glaxosmithkline-pleads-guilty-to-health-fraud-agrees-to-pay-record-3b-in-penalties/2012/07/05/gJQA9wekPW_story.html

Look at the smirking chimps.

Oh stuff it....I'm a republican and I never thought Oxycontin should have been approved. It is and has always been a dangerous drug with the highest potential for abuse. There Marketing claims were misleading from day one.

Floridatexan wrote:
It would be surprising, except it's not. If you ask a Republican, you'll find that it's just the "free market" at work, making the world a better place for all of us.

I'm sure you heard about this as well:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/glaxosmithkline-pleads-guilty-to-health-fraud-agrees-to-pay-record-3b-in-penalties/2012/07/05/gJQA9wekPW_story.html

Look at the smirking chimps.

yeah, its all the republicans fault LOL

drug companies paid $70 million in political advertising, which directly benefited the Obama administration and its legislative effort, to keep Waxman from seizing another $70 billion in the payback mechanism

Surely they must have been just excited about the "just take a pill" comment lol

You stuff it, Joanie. That's all your party talks about...how to just let the "free market" do its thing. If only the government would stop interfering, everything would come up roses. It's all lies, amply demonstrated by garbage like this, like the Libor scandal just unfolding (which intimates collusion throughout the global banking industry), and by the record of the last Republican (may it be so) in the White House. That's why you on the so-called "right" can get behind a candidate for POTUS who's such an obvious crook. I LMAO every time I think of the parade of candidates put forth in this election so far, and how each and every Republican jumped from one candidate to another just before the SHTF...with the obvious exception of Ron Paul, who's stark raving mad. (Sorry, Z, but he lies just like the rest of them).