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mahatmakanejeeves

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Fri Dec 6, 2019, 03:20 PM Dec 2019

'SELL BABY SELL!': Inside the opioid industry's marketing machine

David Fahrenthold Retweeted

The documents reveal that drug manufacturers paid doctors and movie stars to promote more aggressive pain treatment.

They created campaigns for their sales forces, tying bonuses to opioid sales and holding contests to reward top earners.


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'SELL BABY SELL!': Inside the opioid industry's marketing machine (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2019 OP
Cognitive Dissonance, Anyone? Newest Reality Dec 2019 #1

Newest Reality

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1. Cognitive Dissonance, Anyone?
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 04:01 PM
Dec 2019

Say, sure, give me some of that great stuff quick, to drugs!

A gram beats a damn!

Better living through chemistry.

It looks like drug pusher became a rather profitable and respectable career path. Oh, but profit it is the reason for being and human beings reproduce and are easily replaceable, so no worries.

And he said unto them: "What does it profit a man to have a soul when he can have the entire world instead? Yeah, verily, God is abundant. Somemen!

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