A new company, Haleon, now sells dozens of products from what was formerly GSK's huge consumer health division, which was spun off in 2022. The company pretends to be highly ethical in its website propaganda, even doing its part to combat climate change by using low-carbon web pages (??). But does it practice what it preaches? Welcome to Voltarengate.
OTC drugs
Drug companies try all kinds of nonsense to keep selling their brand-name drugs, when the same drugs are also sold as over-the-counter store-name generics. Sanofi just started a sleazy marketing campaign trying to do just that. And it's not their first time either.
Can the FDA's tactics – to impact the current opioid problem – also predict its successor? The goal is to head off escalation before problems are crises, and the move is a departure from the status-quo, reactive nature of prior policies.