Posted by sdb on February 2, 2007, at 10:33:36
In reply to Re: Why is valium relatively unpopular?, posted by ed_uk on January 31, 2007, at 17:43:11
> >Why is valium relatively unpopular?
>
> Old drugs are rarely popular in the US. The Americans prefer meds which are new, shiny, heavily-advertised, expensive, and which come as 'samples' ;)
>
> EdMaybe true. But worse here. A big company sold an old non psych. med as a totally new one for a higher price. Bad for the consumers, better said sufferer and good for the purse of some managers. It's perverse. Roche is is more innovative than its brother.
~S
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