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MaybeADumbass t1_j693amf wrote

Reply to comment by TheMountainHobbit in Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro loosens his predecessor’s notoriously strict gift ban for top officials by CobBasey

And yet pharmaceutical reps were able to lay the groundwork for much of the opioid crisis with nothing more than free food and stationary. Never underestimate how easily many people can be influenced.

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historyhill t1_j69d2d3 wrote

Well, it was a bit more than that—it was also the promise that oxycontin wasn't addictive and was very safe, and suppression of any information that suggested otherwise. I think be a lot of the doctors probably truly believed it was a miracle pain cure initially, and the free food was just the foot in the door to get the doctors to listen.

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