Posted on 03/26/2006 8:04:50 PM PST by A. Pole
The drugs are manufactured by the same companies. They have factories all over the world. The safety issue is nonsense and is just an excuse.
I don't see an upside to this. All I see are political attack ads in November linking GOP candidates to the confiscation of old people's vital medications.
EXACTLY IT'S BS! LIKE MANY HAVE SAID THEY CAN CATCH THE LEGAL DRUGS COMING IN BUT NOT THE ILLEGALS COMING ACROSS THE BORDERS! I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND THERE AINT A WHOLE LOT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT UNLESS WE THROW OURS SELVES UPON THE GEARS OF THE CORRUPT MACHINE THAT HAS BECOME OUR GOVERNMENT.
Somebody wrote: I vaguely remember Tagament (sp?), the medication for stomach ulcer has been used in Europe for some 30 years, before they finally allowed it in the US.
I remember Thalidomide, and how our regulators didn't allow it while the Brits found it to be just fine. Dandy outcome, that one. I am vewry happy that my Mom wasn't allowed to take it by the nasty, mean spirited, "bought and paid for" FDA
Honestly some days I don't know if I should laugh, cry, or start throwing things at the walls....
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Hmm.. All of a sudden someone's not so into free market economics... someone else selling the same stuff but cheaper.. I call that legitimate competition.
As it abandons the last of its free-market principles, the GOP seems to seriously want to be erased from the face of the Earth this fall.
More government madness regulating what an individual chooses to put in his or her veins. It's the American way.
So once in 50 years the FDA does something right?
I wouldn't be opposed to it so long as the gov't shields drug makers from lawsuits. A lot of the drugs these people are getting are counterfeit and are not made in Canada. If we were truely in a "buyer beware" situation were you have no one but yourself to blame if you get taken that is one thing but we know that's not whats going to happen.
"A lot of the drugs these people are getting are counterfeit and are not made in Canada."
Most of the drugs sold in Canada are not made in Canada. Do you have a link to the couterfeit drugs claim?
Maybe the US government should spend their time finding out why so many US drug companies sell on yearly basis TONS more pseudoephredrine to Mexico than all Mexicans combined could every possibly use in about 25 years.
All that comes back to the US in the form of methamphetamine.
And how many people died because the FDA didn't approve medications that may have helped them?
You have to balance it out with that.
''What we're trying to do is protect the public from unsafe medications," said Lynn Hollinger, spokeswoman for US Customs and Border Protection.
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What they are protecting is their big contributors.
We can import things made in China, we can outsource stuff to India, but we can't buy medications from other countries. I don't know how that makes sense to anyone.
The Re-Emergence Of Thalidomide
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/thalidomide/return.html
After the 1960's tragedy and thalidomide being taken out of use, not all the drug was destroyed. A few years later, the story took a surprising turn by means of an Israeli doctor. In 1965 the doctor was treating leprosy patients. One in particular had developed a bacterial infection coupled with inflammation. After stumbling across some thalidomide, remembering it was a sedative, the doctor administered it in the hope it would help the patient sleep and ease his pain.
Remarkably, in the morning the swelling had being brought under control. This extremely fortunate discovery lead to research on the effects of thalidomide on inflammatory diseases.
Leprosy is a horrific desease which still causes suffering in parts of the world. Any new medicines which might help irradicate it are desirable.
When our bodies encounter foreign matter cells they become injured and release a protein which increases blood flow. This can cause serious inflamation if the body overreacts. Thalidomide is able to block one of the proteins and stop the body over reacting, surpressing the defences.
This is not the only situation in which Thalidomide has proved effective. Since it reduces growth of blood vessels, it has been tested on cancer patients, as tumours require new blood vessels. It has been used to treat weight loss associated with AIDS/HIV and on Chron's disease patients. It has also been studied for its potential property of stopping HIV progression.
It makes sense to Bush because he’s more interested in taking care of his big contributors than what’s good for the country. He can find the will to keep some old lady from saving a few bucks on the meds she needs, but he can’t find the will to uphold the law and deport criminal aliens or prosecute criminal employers.
I don't think this is a "Bush thing". I think it's some in his administration going out of control and he is too busy with real important stuff to slap them down.
A Republican Rep voiced strong opposition to it.
FDA already has too much power. I would love to see them abolished, or at least put into an advisory role, not as an organization who controls what medications individuals are allowed to take.
That is a billion dollars easy per lawyer.
Also further proof that the drugs companies are anti-american traitors who wish to hurt only U.S. citizens.
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