Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Drug manufacturers are publicly traded companies that have to answer to their stockholders. The FDA bends to the will of the political winds in Washington based on hard lobbying from special interest groups representing pharmaceutical companies, doctor's groups, and health insurers. The least represented of all constituents are "we the people."
The one thing that doctors, HMOs, hospitals, lobbyists and drug manufacturers have in common is their pursuit of money under the guise of health care. It is a broken, unworkable system that puts you in a vulnerable position. |
Andreas Moritz
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 JRI did some investigating and located the offshore chemical synthesizers that supply the FDA-approved active ingredients to the drug manufacturers. JRI collected the data and pricing for the active ingredients and the consumer markup price for the most popular drugs in the U.S. For example, the popular drug Xanax sells for $136. At a cost price of 0.02 for its active ingredients, the markup for Xanax is a staggering 683,950 percent. Norvask sells for $188.29 but costs $0.14 to make; its markup is 134,493 percent. Zolofts's markup is 11,821 percent. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| We have "lemon" laws to protect consumers from deceptive auto salesmen but it's apparently an accepted practice for drug manufacturers to grow rich from your misery These companies sell you even more drugs instead of fixing what's wrong by addressing the root cause of your problem.
The key to renewed health is obviously to eliminate as many toxins as you can from your environment on a daily basis (see Part II—How to Live in a Green, Toxin Free Environment) before they even reach your intestines. Let's face one of the main problems though—addiction! |
Mark Sircus
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 As long as we still have the ability to procreate (to replace the hundreds of millions who needlessly suffer and die prematurely), this would ensure a rosy future for drug manufacturers, and a bleak outlook for our nation's health.
Type II Diabetes is sweeping so rapidly through America we need not waste time giving children bicycles. Just roll them a wheelchair. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| The Power of Advertising
Today's drug manufacturers have taken a page from the tobacco industry advertising playbook and are marketing their products directly to consumers. What started in 1952 with Speedy Alka-Seltzer's "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz..." has catapulted into a multibillion dollar business with approximately one of every four TV commercials being ads for drugs. This type of promotion is commonly called direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising and it is designed to sell drugs by getting people to wonder whether or not a drug is "right for them. |
| Doctors, hospitals, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), the media, drug manufacturers and the FDA all play a part in the massive consumption of drugs in this country. In this chapter, you have seen how the system is gamed with each group contributing to our national health crisis. But who is ultimately responsible for our over-reliance on prescription drugs?
Physicians have a tough job. They do their best under trying conditions, working long hours. Most hospitals have been systematically transitioned to for-profit business models. |
| The one thing that doctors, HMOs, hospitals, lobbyists and drug manufacturers have in common is their pursuit of money under the guise of health care. It is a broken, unworkable system that puts you in a vulnerable position. Until we have free health care for all Americans focused on disease prevention instead of disease management, our health will continue to decline and the costs to manage our self-inflicted diseases will continue to soar. |
| The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), drug manufacturers and traditional health care providers have purposely chosen to mask the symptoms rather than provide real solutions that could eliminate self-inflicted conditions before they damage us. The FDA, which could do so much more to protect people, has a curious way of dealing with the health issues of the twentieth-first century. |
Andreas Moritz
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| By law, the drug manufacturers are required to list all the risks of their drugs in this manual. The entry for Hormone Replacement Therapy includes: womb cancer; breast tenderness/enlargement; undesirable weight gain/loss; elevated blood pressure; mental depression; reduced carbohydrate and glucose tolerance; hair loss; vaginal candidacies (thrush); jaundice; abdominal cramps; vomiting; cystitis-like syndrome. Menopausal symptoms may begin to seem mild when compared with any of these side effects. |
| Most medical doctors can only pass on the information they receive from the drug manufacturers.
The whole drug side effect issue is complicated by the fact that drug reactions are only rarely reported by general practitioners. The British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology reported in 1997 that "most prescription drugs are more dangerous than they appear because doctors rarely report side effects to the appropriate authorities." This tragic situation was confirmed by French researchers, who discovered massive underreporting of adverse reactions to prescription drugs. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Here, the drug manufacturers have produced advertising that has already been deemed to be false and misleading, and contain unsubstantiated claims. Where is the FTC?
The outrage is why the FTC isn't prosecuting these companies in the same aggressive manner that the FTC goes after companies that sell natural products. Why isn't the FTC suing these drug manufacturers, demanding a complete asset freeze and a complete freezing of personal assets of the officers and directors? The answer is political payoffs. Every one of you reading this should be mad as hell. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 The argument drug manufacturers make for the high cost of their products, which has become an old saw by now, is that the money supports research and development of new life-saving meds. They also say that expensive advertising is needed not to sell drugs but to educate doctors and patients. Indeed, a whopping 80% of their budgets is used for marketing.
The major drug companies don't develop a lot of new drugs. The truth is, most new drugs are developed through basic science research conducted in universities and not in drug-company laboratories. |
David Steinman
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 The amount of dollars spent on scientific research that is going into Zyflamend is not nearly the equivalent of what drug manufacturers have put into Vioxx or Celebrex. Their research dollars total hundreds of millions of dollars or billions when combined (although likely to be a far lower cost than Merck's future litigation payouts).
The few million spent on researching Zyflamend is minuscule compared with these amounts. For the dietary supplement industry, however, that amount represents an enormous investment. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Class Action Lawsuit Against Major drug manufacturers Overcharging Disabled and Homeless for Drugs.
• Therapeutics Letter, Issue 52, Apr/May/June 2004. Antidepressant Medications in Children and Adolescents.
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• Psych Drug Truth, 10/3/03. Lilly Settles Prozac Lawsuit.
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• CBS MarketWatch, 9/24/04. Pfizer Slams Dissident Executive Who Backs Drug Import Bill.
• Pharma, New Medicine. New Hope, 8/31/04. New Research Shows Patients Need Choice of Medicines for Best Treatment, |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I think that's a phenomenal number, and I know that if the antidepressant drug manufacturers could see this report, they would be alarmed to learn that simple, open-source health information is helping people overcome depression without dangerous, expensive prescription drugs.
Eleven point six percent reported receiving praise from their doctor for making positive health changes. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 All the large drug manufacturers are not only aware of this but they also use a research design that takes advantage of this fact, something that is not done in oncology (cancer), cardiology (heart), dermatology (skin) or any other area of medical research where the disease can actually be objectively measured. The technique is known as a placebo washout. When the study begins, every participant is given a placebo. Those who have the best response are then removed from the study. |
| Truth should never be decided by a vote, by massive multi-million dollar advertising campaigns or by antidepressant drug studies designed and paid for by drug manufacturers. Truth should be decided by an honest, objective assessment of the evidence and by logic. It is not enough to say "I'm right" or "I'm right, and peer-reviewed research found in medical journals proves it." You need to have exact references to the facts which are used to support arguments and conclusions. This book contains over 1,800 references to some of the best of the scientific research. |
| It is impossible to prove that the financial ties that developed between the drug manufacturers and Dr. Wilson influenced his words or his writing. However, without substantial ties, it is difficult to believe that he would have left the temperate language of science for the dramatic (sometimes even frightening) and consistently promotional language we read in his book, articles and interviews.46 He even made up new medical terms and renamed others for the obvious purpose of promotion. |
| The evidence for the theory is found in studies that are commonly discussed not just by the drug manufacturers' literature but by the textbooks used to educate psychologists, nurses and medical doctors.
So ideological is the position of the genetic/chemical imbalance advocates that they often talk in terms of the "proofs" rather than the evidences for their position. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 AARP conducted a survey of prescription drug manufacturers' prices and discovered that they have been accelerating for years, dramatically outpacing the overall rate of inflation.8 Its analysis of 150 popular products shows that price tags on these brand-name drugs rose an average of 35 percent between 1999 and 2004. That's almost three times higher than overall inflation during that time, which amounted to 13.5 percent.9
The result of this trend is per-pill prices that take your breath away. The cost of the sleeping pill Ambien (Zolpidem), which is advertised directly to consumers, jumped 11. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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| Thus, drug manufacturers use every imaginable tactic to convince physicians that depression and other mental problems are primarily brain chemistry problems. In addition to massive amounts of advertising (discussed in the next chapter), the drug companies use company representatives who are regularly trained in how best to promote their employer's drugs.
"Drug reps" are so numerous that many physicians limit the number with whom they are willing to visit each day. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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| These are the middlemen who buy drugs from the drug manufacturers and distribute them to retail pharmacies. Canadian regulators do not allow widespread repackaging. When you get your bottle of pills from a pharmacist in Canada, it usually comes in the original sealed container from the drug company.
In the United States, there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of wholesalers and repackages. Huge batches of pills are taken out of big bottles and redistributed into lots of little bottles. Chances are good that most of your medications are in small pill bottles that came from a pharmacy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Recent regulatory failures demonstrate that FDA is neither infallible nor does it have the capability of policing drug manufacturers negligent misconduct.
Want to see the real FDA at work? Read the story of Rezulin, and you'll be shocked to learn the truth about the real agenda that drives this rogue agency.
The end is near for the Big Pharma / FDA racket
Why would the FDA engage in such an obviously unlawful power grab? Because Big Pharma co-conspirators have realized that lawsuits threaten to bankrupt the drug companies. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Before the passage of rare disease laws in the United States, people diagnosed with rare diseases were denied access to effective medicines because prescription drug manufacturers rarely could make a profit from marketing drugs to such small groups. Consequently, the prescription drug industry did not adequately fund research for the development of so-called orphan products. Other potential sources, such as research hospitals and universities, also lacked the capital and business expertise to develop treatments for small patient groups. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| As Menzies explains:
Pharmaceutical industry lobbying efforts and zealot tort reformers have sired a new wave of brazen attempts to shield drug manufacturers from tort liability. The preemption language in the preamble to the Final Rule is but the latest attempt. Preemption has become the argument du jour and politically appointed regulatory officials the mouthpieces. The crafty messages sound of consumer protection, but are just the opposite. Limiting the liability of drug companies will not improve public safety. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| Why isn't the FTC suing these drug manufacturers, demanding a complete asset freeze and a complete freezing of personal assets of the officers and directors? The answer is political payoffs. Every one of you reading this should be mad as hell. This is an outrage to the highest degree. The corruption in both the FDA and the FTC is beyond belief. I have personal investigators reviewing all of the workings at these organizations. I have inside moles telling me the secrets. We are looking at the individual people involved at both the FDA and the FTC. |
| This medical liability legislation is being used as a cover to grant amnesty to drug manufacturers, protecting them from having to compensate millions of patients for the harm their drugs have caused. It is payback for the pharmaceutical industry, which was the largest corporate sponsor of the Bush election campaign. The people of America and their political representatives have to realize that the proposed medical liability legislation is a "Trojan Horse. |
| This test allows drug manufacturers, for the first time, to see all the negative side effects that non-prescription and prescription drugs will have on the body. It also tests the long-term effectiveness of these drugs. I have personal firsthand knowledge of this individual and the company he works for. This technology proves for the first time that every single over-the-counter non-prescription drug and every single prescription drug simply temporarily suppresses symptoms. This test proves that there is not one single drug manufactured that actually cures any disease. |
Mike Adams
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 These patents essentially allow drug manufacturers to arbitrarily define the profits for their products.
4. The marketplace for the pharmaceutical industry is the human body - but only for as long as the body hosts diseases. Thus, maintaining and expanding diseases is a precondition for the growth of the pharmaceutical industry.
5. A key strategy to accomplish this goal is the development of drugs that merely mask symptoms while avoiding the curing or elimination of diseases. This explains why most prescription drugs marketed today have no proven efficacy and merely target symptoms.
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| The taxpayers of Hawaii have been swindled by certain drug manufacturers falsely inflating prices in our Medicaid programs and to Medicare beneficiaries." - Lillian Roller, director of the state Department of Human Services.
<•* A quick review of press releases available on the website of the Attorney General shows California:
Filed a complaint accusing pharmaceutical manufacturer Bristol-Myers Squibb Inc. |
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