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* ParentsAsPeople: Joe's single mother, at her wit's end between work and her son's outbursts, gave him pills anonymously sent to her out of sheer desperation to calm things down.
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* PredatoryBigPharma: This episode involves a school shooter who was under the influence of a new drug that had been wrongly prescribed as the consequence of a greedy pharmaceutical company.
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* BerserkButton: Stabler presses on Jane the drug rep's button by picking up the photo of her children and questioning her about them.

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* BerserkButton: Stabler presses on Jane the drug rep's button by picking up the photo of her children and questioning her about them. It gets her to [[SayingTooMuch slip up and say just enough]] that Alex can infer the company was aware of the letters going out to Aptril patients.
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* BerserkButton: Stabler presses on Jane the drug rep's button by picking up the photo of her children and questioning her about them.
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* ExactWords: When questioned about the murder weapon, George says that he didn't shoot anyone with the gun, not that he didn't take it. It's later revealed that he was the one who gave it to Joey.

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* ExactWords: When questioned about the murder weapon, George says that he didn't shoot anyone with the gun, not that he didn't take it. It's later revealed that he was the one who gave it to Joey.Joey.
* SpaceWhaleAesop: "If big pharma markets unapproved drugs to your kid he'll become a school shooter" because it's hard to make good drama out of the more mundane side effects.
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* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Aptril is a fictional drug, and the chemical name given for it (phenyloxypropylamine) is not a psychoactive drug, although it is a real substance closely related to fluoxetine (more commonly known as Prozac).
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Benson and Stabler enlist Huang's help in probing the connection between a teenage boy undergoing psychiatric treatment, the deaths of two high-school students, and an illegal marketing campaign by a major pharmaceutical company.

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Benson and Stabler enlist Huang's help in probing the connection between a teenage boy undergoing psychiatric treatment, the deaths of two high-school students, and an illegal marketing campaign by a major pharmaceutical company.company.

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* ExactWords: When questioned about the murder weapon, George says that he didn't shoot anyone with the gun, not that he didn't take it. It's later revealed that he was the one who gave it to Joey.
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Written By Creator/PatrickHarbinson

Directed By Creator/GuyNormanBee
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Benson and Stabler enlist Huang's help in probing the connection between a teenage boy undergoing psychiatric treatment, the deaths of two high-school students, and an illegal marketing campaign by a major pharmaceutical company.

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