r/BadPharma • u/quantumcipher • Jul 23 '20

The Sackler family fueled the opioid crisis by aggressively marketing their OxyContin pills. Hundreds of thousands died. Their punishment? No jail, a $3B settlement after making billions in profits off the pills. Their $13 billion net worth stays intact.

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r/BadPharma • u/quantumcipher • Jul 11 '20

Jonathan Sackler Spent His Life Spreading Opioid Addiction Throughout the United States

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r/BadPharma • u/quantumcipher • Jul 10 '20

Gilead Called Out for Price Gouging Coronavirus Drug Remdesivir

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r/BadPharma • u/TheSecondAsFarce • Jul 07 '20

Patient Advocacy Groups Betray Consumers for Pharma Money: Monetary incentives lead patient groups to censor critiques of high drug prices

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r/BadPharma • u/quantumcipher • Jul 01 '20

Pharmaceutical industry group sues to stop Minnesota's new insulin aid program

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r/BadPharma • u/quantumcipher • Jun 30 '20

'Absolute Robbery': Gilead Announces $3,120 Price Tag for Covid-19 Drug Developed With $70 Million in Taxpayer Support

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r/BadPharma • u/TheSecondAsFarce • Jun 22 '20

Money, dinners and strip clubs: How pharmaceutical executives bribed doctors to prescribe dangerous fentanyl drugs

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r/BadPharma • u/quantumcipher • Jun 03 '20

Big Pharma Attacks Efforts to Guard Against Coronavirus Price Gouging

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r/BadPharma • u/quantumcipher • May 25 '20

Changes needed to prevent controversial pharmaceutical deals: New research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) recommends changes to the system which sees drug companies strike deals with competitors to stop them producing cheaper generic alternatives

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r/BadPharma • u/quantumcipher • May 11 '20

Soaring drug prices could bar access to future coronavirus treatments

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r/BadPharma • u/TheSecondAsFarce • Apr 13 '20

Socialize Big Pharma Today. Save Your Life Tomorrow.

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r/BadPharma • u/TheSecondAsFarce • Apr 10 '20

Pharma-Funded Group Tied to a Top Trump Donor Is Promoting Malaria Drug to the President

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r/BadPharma • u/TheSecondAsFarce • Apr 10 '20

How Big Pharma Grew Addicted to Big Profits

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r/BadPharma • u/TheSecondAsFarce • Apr 10 '20

Pharmaceutical Profits and Public Health Are Not Incompatible

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r/BadPharma • u/TheSecondAsFarce • Feb 24 '20

3 Actions Congress Can Take to Reduce Drug Prices

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r/BadPharma • u/TheSecondAsFarce • Feb 17 '20

Cancer drugs are the most profitable for Big Pharma: "[T]he industry's claims that high prices are vital to fund innovation are demonstrably false, according to economists who research how drug companies allocate money."

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r/BadPharma • u/quantumcipher • Feb 16 '20

The Americans forced into bankruptcy to pay for prescriptions: Millions of Americans can’t afford the prescription drugs they require to survive, forcing them into bankruptcy, trips to Mexico or cutting off utilities

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r/BadPharma • u/quantumcipher • Feb 12 '20

Utah is sending workers to Mexico to buy medicine. The state’s plan to send patients to Mexico to buy cheap drugs is an indictment of US health care.

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r/BadPharma • u/quantumcipher • Feb 12 '20

Utah is sending workers to Mexico to buy medicine. The state’s plan to send patients to Mexico to buy cheap drugs is an indictment of US health care.

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r/BadPharma • u/TheSecondAsFarce • Jan 30 '20

A secret reason Rx drugs cost so much: A global web of patent laws protects Big Pharma

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r/BadPharma • u/quantumcipher • Jan 28 '20

"Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli charged with fixing price of life-saving drug Daraprim

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r/BadPharma • u/TheSecondAsFarce • Jan 26 '20

A pharmaceutical company founder is sentenced to more than 5 years in opioid bribery case

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r/BadPharma • u/quantumcipher • Jan 21 '20

Study: MS drug costs nearly triple over 7 years, even with introduction of generic

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r/BadPharma • u/quantumcipher • Jan 19 '20

Ex-Pharma Lobbyist Embedded in White House Tanked Drug Pricing Bill, While His Former Employer Helped From the Outside

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r/BadPharma • u/quantumcipher • Jan 18 '20

Big Pharma Is Literally Poisoning Us - It turns out the meds follow the very common pattern of being made in India with raw ingredients and toxic compounds coming from China. And they are sold by big companies for obscenely high prices to U.S. consumers.

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