The pharmaceutical companies are price gouging.
My son’s acne cream Epiduo costs $300.00. it consists of Retin A and Benzoil Peroxide.
The Pharma companies are predators as far as I’m concerned. The FDA legalized heroin in pill form, and it is even prescribed to children, despite $millions distributed in wrongful death lawsuits, and horrific statistics of addiction, abuse, and of course death.
When Oxycontin was introduced in the late ‘90s, OxyContin was touted as nearly addiction-proof — only to leave a trail of dependence and destruction. Its marketing was misleading enough that Purdue pleaded guilty in 2007 to a federal criminal count of misbranding the drug “with intent to defraud and mislead the public,” they paid $635 million in penalties.
Ttoday it’s business as usual, except there are dozens of opiates in pill and even lollipop form, and the opiate abuse epidemic has now surpassed alcohol and car accidents in accidental death statistics. It is the #1 killer in accidental deaths in the US.
Heroin is prescribed in pill form by doctors to children. It is available in lollipop form.
http://www.lexi.com/individuals/dentistry/newsletters.jsp?id=december_10
Actiq®, The Sugar-Loaded Opiate Lollipop and the Risk for Tooth Decay
Risk for “tooth decay” is the warning families are given!!!!
They are everywhere today and our government, doctors, and schools are the drug pushers. Many kids won’t stand a chance.
If there is any doubt that money influences Washington, remember that Pharmaceutical companies are the BIGGEST spenders in political influence and lobbying as an industry. In 2009 alone political donations totalled $272,979,917.00
https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=H04&year=2009
For some strange reason too many doctors and nurses are popping ADHD type meds like candy. The influence of the Pharma industry is dangerous.
You & your son do have the option of using one of the other 1,000 treatments for acne.
I suppose that you are too young to remember Paregoric as grandmother's "super-strength cure for what ails you" before that was banned as a over-the-counter drug?
BTW, "Pharmaceutical companies are the BIGGEST spenders in political influence and lobbying" must be evaluated in the light of the free advertizing that the MSM give to liberal causes & politicians and the value of free indoctrination by academia beginning in Pre-K and the free votes + money from the unions.
There is enough greed and power-seeking in this world to spread the blame around. If "Big Pharma" were to be taken over by the "all compassionate and completely competent government" we'd be waiting in line for aspirin at $5 a pill within 5 years. (/hyperbole)
/rant