[tempguy9999]

Oh god yes. But you can't trust any organisation in general that's grown large and is profit-oriented.

This isn't quite in line, as it's about the 1960s when they were going mad with new drugs, IIRC a sleeping pill was sold that had a barbiturate shell that knocked you out. This was designed to take ~8 hours to dissolve away, and at the core was a lump of amphetamine to bounce you back to eager wakefulness.

Granted people were a bit naive back then but it must have been obvious such things were not intrinsically safe, but dammit we have sales targets!

I worked in the area and I remember being told a story about a drug being approved for use based on the word of the top exec of the drug's manufacturer that it was safe, and a handshake. That's all. This would be in the late 70's. Things have been very much tightened up since then, but still.