| ▲ | AdieuToLogic 16 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
> Should allow pharma to sell drugs to the market. This was the case pre-FDA. IIRC, that is how heroin was sold in drug stores. See also OxyContin[0]. > Allow people to sue if they are harmed. So you advocate a costly post-harm remediation instead of a preemptive solution provided by governmental regulations? > Do not care about a government agency preventing access to new drugs. See previous reference to heroin once being an over-the-counter product. 0 - https://apnews.com/article/purdue-pharma-sackler-settlement-... | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | terminalshort 16 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> So you advocate a costly post-harm remediation instead of a preemptive solution provided by governmental regulations Absolutely. Such solutions tend to be much cheaper and more effective. It's how we deal with the vast majority of problems for a good reason. If we sold oxycontin over the counter we would have much less of an overdose problem than we do. Would also take a lot of stress off our emergency medical care system which spends an inordinate amount of time just dealing with addicts looking for drugs. It's a funny example to use to justify the current regulatory framework because oxycontin got approved by the very same. | |||||||||||||||||
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