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by PiggySpeed 2205 days ago
> A drug on the market for 60 years (and over the counter in many countries) is “extremely dangerous”?

Yes it can, if used in a different context. You can't generalize stuff in medicine. There are hundreds of factors in play: co-morbidities, genetics, interacting drugs, timelines, dosages, dose delivery forms, routes of entry, previous surgical procedures, demographics...