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THE DRUG INDUSTRY’S TRIUMPH OVER THE DEA
The Washington Compost ^
| October 16, 2017
| Scott Higham and Lenny Bernstein
Posted on 10/16/2017 6:07:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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I hooked up an antenna recently and have watched commercials for the first time in years. I cannot believe how many commercials for drugs there are. It's obscene. All targeted at old people. The the big-government/big-Pharma criminal complex old people are just a revenue stream.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
HEP C is the big 1, idiots don’t know it’s a dirty needle, and promiscuous life style disease, that routine test seniors have for liver reactions, will catch it. Treatment is around $84K.
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posted on
10/16/2017 6:11:43 PM PDT
by
GailA
(Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
And if you OD, the estate is taken by the State and the social security payments stop.
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posted on
10/16/2017 6:12:47 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I challenge anyone to find a network newscast that isn’t driven by 80% pharmaceutical advertising.
They make street dealers look ethical.
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posted on
10/16/2017 6:15:01 PM PDT
by
PittsburghAfterDark
(The American media: We do what the Soviet media did without the guns to our head.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The company that makes oxy’s and roxy’s lost a lawsuit because it lied about the addictiveness of its drug.
The money they paid was nothing compared to their profits, or the lives they took.
Here’s where a bunch of folks will chime in saying it’s about “personal ‘sponsibility”
Even though the drug company basically stated they’re selling addictive narcotics to unsuspecting citizens.
But these ####s who run these companies will sit at Christmas dinner and pray and thank God for all their blessings while make believing they’re not killers.
And now there are antidepressants to help antidepressants that aren’t working well.
Meanwhile, the ENTIRE theory that it’s a serotonin deficiency that is causing depression is being turned on its head by some good proof that it’s dopamine deficiency.
And each commercial still says “the medication is THOUGHT to work by...”
That’s great.
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posted on
10/16/2017 6:17:32 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The Left should know that if Trump isouokt of office, it is WAR!)
To: PittsburghAfterDark
But, what I take away from every ad is “don’t take (insert drug name here) “.
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posted on
10/16/2017 6:18:10 PM PDT
by
SolidRedState
(I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
To: SolidRedState
side effects include suicidal ideation and blood in your stool!
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posted on
10/16/2017 6:20:59 PM PDT
by
T-Bone Texan
(Trump's election does not release you from your prepping responsibilites!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Big pharma is controlled by the elites. They control what laws are made,
What happened with Oxy is all part of the plan.
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posted on
10/16/2017 6:23:45 PM PDT
by
T-Bone Texan
(Trump's election does not release you from your prepping responsibilites!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
As is often the case, this story as printed is one-sided.
"The bill revises and expands the required elements of an order to show cause issued by the DEA before it denies, revokes, or suspends a registration for a Controlled Substances Act violation. An order to show cause must specifically state the legal basis for the action and notify the registrant of the opportunity to submit a corrective action plan." Sounds like something I would support. Here's the text of the bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/483/text
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posted on
10/16/2017 6:28:30 PM PDT
by
palmer
(...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
To: dp0622
Heres where a bunch of folks will chime in saying its about personal sponsibility There's where you substituted slogans for reason. There are people who need the drugs. Others did not but got them anyway resulting, in some cases, in addiction. There needs to be a balance between needs of pain patients and the potential for addiction.
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posted on
10/16/2017 6:31:07 PM PDT
by
palmer
(...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I’d sooner there be a copious and open market for medicines, even if some may be misused or have unintended deleterious effects, than that it be strangled by nannies.
People can choose if they want to take medicines, and if so, which ones, just like they can choose what soap they bathe with, or if they bathe at all. My bath habits don’t depend on Palmolive or Calgon commercials.
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posted on
10/16/2017 6:39:17 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Can’t advertise cigarettes or beer though.
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posted on
10/16/2017 6:39:59 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(You can't have totalitarian globalist government if the peasants are armed.)
To: dp0622
Oh good grief.
If you smash a time release pill to get it all in one burst, you just decided you wanted to violate what your doctor ordered. Don’t blame either pharma or the doctor for that.
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posted on
10/16/2017 6:42:05 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
At least not on the teevee, but you can see them out in the open at the checkouts of stores.
Some people have an amazing amount of self control regarding smokes. My own dad could smoke a single cigarette once a week. It was a special occasion. Maybe they ought to be sold as singles, rather than packs.
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posted on
10/16/2017 6:44:28 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Maybe they ought to be sold as singles, rather than packs. And tax them by the ounce, just like soda pop!
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posted on
10/16/2017 6:46:24 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(You can't have totalitarian globalist government if the peasants are armed.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I didn’t say anything about taxes or no taxes.
But the pack system says, if I have one I might as well have twenty, or however many are put in a pack.
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posted on
10/16/2017 6:48:26 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
So you’re a mandatory single-serving libertarian.
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posted on
10/16/2017 6:59:11 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(You can't have totalitarian globalist government if the peasants are armed.)
To: palmer
"The bill revises and expands the required elements of an order to show cause issued by the DEA before it denies, revokes, or suspends a registration for a Controlled Substances Act violation. An order to show cause must specifically state the legal basis for the action and notify the registrant of the opportunity to submit a corrective action plan."The DEA considers itself above such things.
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posted on
10/16/2017 7:01:41 PM PDT
by
NobleFree
("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
To: E. Pluribus Unum
A suggesting one. I believe there could be an ethical cigarette market, and they would sell singles.
The LAW doesn’t let singles be sold. It seems the worse ass here.
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posted on
10/16/2017 7:12:01 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
To: PittsburghAfterDark
The other 20% are lawyers suing drug companies for the last miracle drug of death.
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posted on
10/16/2017 7:23:39 PM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(TETELESTI Read em and weep Lucy! Yer times almost up.)
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