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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 755056" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Solid business strategy. Alcohol distillers and drug manufacturers (legal and illegal) put some real thought and high powered computers into their strategy to increase the market for their products. While many people think of drug cartels as people who smuggle drugs across borders, reality is that they are large multinational corporations. That effort wasn't put into drugs until the last few decades. Think about the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma. They spent huge sums on fines, and it wasn't even a drop in the bucket of the profits they made from oxycontin. They grew the market for ALL painkillers by convincing doctors that the medications were not addicting (though many doctors knew, and either fooled themselves or are too stupid to practice medicine) and iwth fancy marketing campaigns directed primarily at doctors. Pharmaceutical reps spent fortunes convincing doctors to prescribe oxycontin, and other medications also got prescribed as a byproduct of this marketing campaign. This wasn't done in the past, not at any point. It is why states are suing or have already sued Purdue Pharma.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 755056, member: 1233"] Solid business strategy. Alcohol distillers and drug manufacturers (legal and illegal) put some real thought and high powered computers into their strategy to increase the market for their products. While many people think of drug cartels as people who smuggle drugs across borders, reality is that they are large multinational corporations. That effort wasn't put into drugs until the last few decades. Think about the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma. They spent huge sums on fines, and it wasn't even a drop in the bucket of the profits they made from oxycontin. They grew the market for ALL painkillers by convincing doctors that the medications were not addicting (though many doctors knew, and either fooled themselves or are too stupid to practice medicine) and iwth fancy marketing campaigns directed primarily at doctors. Pharmaceutical reps spent fortunes convincing doctors to prescribe oxycontin, and other medications also got prescribed as a byproduct of this marketing campaign. This wasn't done in the past, not at any point. It is why states are suing or have already sued Purdue Pharma. [/QUOTE]
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