Coincidentally, FDA admitted to another illegal drug approval today: OxyContin. For those who don't know, there actually is no study that proves OxyContin is effective, but FDA approved it anyway.
We will never forget one of the worst self-inflicted wounds of US health care—the FDA’s illegal approval of oxycontin for chronic pain based on a 14-day study, the immediate hiring of the former FDA regulator by Purdue Pharma, and a subsequent epidemic that killed approximately 1 million people in the US.
Coincidentally, FDA admitted to another illegal drug approval today: OxyContin. For those who don't know, there actually is no study that proves OxyContin is effective, but FDA approved it anyway.
This is a direct quote from the FDA Commissioner himself: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2835314. Naturally, even though he says they did it illegally, the drug is still on the market and nothing has changed.