CHEM 183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Purdue Pharma, Opioid Epidemic, Pyrimethamine
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On average over the last decade 36-38 drugs have been approved per. He raised the price of an antiparasitic drug called daraprim. In prison for 7 years and was fined. The sackler family who owned purdue pharma gave up the compan they pushed opioids on doctors which has resulted in the opioid c. 80,000 deaths in the us (6000 in canad. J&j also contributed to opioid crisis per year mpany because id crisis. False misconception that in the good old days there weren"t that many problems. Medical practice back then were not exactly effective. In the past the only way doctors could examine problems within the bo looking at urine or fecal samples. Old uroscopy wheels diagnosed problems by urine color. At the end of the 1800s, life expectancy for a man (north america) was years. Now, overall life expectancy is 80 for men and women with an edge to.
