The EpiPen Scandal Is Worse Than You Think: What You’re Not Being Told

The Antimedia ^ | 26 August 2016 | Alice Salles

[amorphous]

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[rey]

This is why free and open markets are important.

[RegulatorCountry]

Run up the price to a bizarre degree on a medicine or medical device with a monopoly or nearly so, crash the healthcare system and make a few Democrat billionaires in the process, what’s not for a Democrat to like?

[DAC21]

Crony Capitalism at it’s worst brought to you by the corrupt Democrat party, and the corrupt FDA. I bet dirt bag Daddy Manchin is up to his eyeballs in sleazy behavior to help his little baby rake it in.

[amorphous]

We have the best government that money can buy. /s

[LucyT]

The EpiPen Scandal Is Worse Than You Think: What You’re Not Being Told

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[Brian Griffin]

sublingual epinephrine

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16461140

[DAC21]

Antares Pharma is the company supplying Auto injectors to Teva for their Epipen which the FDA has blocked. (zero doubt because of political pressure to keep the good times rolling at Mylan and the Manchin House) I bought shares a few years back which I'm holding and upside down on. Knock on wood the shaming will result in a momentary sliver of integrity by the FDA and get Teva approved as an Epi supplier. It would be nice to break even on my ATRS stock.

[Dr. Ursus]

Joe Manchin-The Flim-Fiam man!

[miele man]

As a beekeeper, I always kept an AnaKit and then later an EpiPen on hand in case someone near my hives got stung and reacted. In the late 90s and through the early 2000s, they were relatively inexpensive.

I learned through a pharmacist friend that I could buy Primatene Mist inhalers and a generic brand from WalMart that each contained epinephrine and which could be used in place of the injectors since the epinephrine entered the blood stream much, much faster. The last Primatene Mist inhaler I bought was in 2009. Walmarts’ brand was removed from the shelves around the same time, much to my disgust. Now I know why. Big Pharma and big corruption and greed strike once again.

Thankfully, no one around my hives has ever been stung by my bees except for me.

[PGR88]

A perfect example of how statism, socialism, politics and crony-capitalism combine in the USA

[palmer]

It's even worse than you imagined:

Manufacturers use chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, as propellants (spray) in these inhalers to move the medicine out of the inhaler so patients can breathe the medicine into their lungs.

The United States signed an international agreement, called the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer along with many other countries. These countries promised to make it illegal to make or sell substances that decrease the ozone layer, including CFCs, after certain dates.

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/InformationbyDrugClass/ucm080427.htm

[wtd]

I have yet to find confirmation about inaccurate dosages in the superior Auvi-Q

[Rockitz]

This should have been more widely viewed as a perfect example of RAT crony capitalism. RATs always like to have government top cover when they engage in capitalism.

[JDoutrider]

The original auto injector device used by the military (Mark I NAAK ComboPen) to ease the effects of nerve gas contained Atropine... not epinephrine.

[Mr. Jeeves]

What we’re not being told is the name “Senator Joe Manchin (D)” - which has been conspicuously absent from most news reports on EpiPen so far.

[wtd]

Brian Griffin wrote: "sublingual epinephrine"

Wow! How available is this form of epinephrine?

• It would seem to be far more stable form which to carry multiple doses.

• Is this easy-dissolving sublingal variant suitable for someone whose throat is closing during a severe allergic reaction...? Is the epinephrine fully absorbed sublingually - no swallowing of treated saliva necessary? Your link suggests it is so.

[Original Lurker]

Crony capitalism is not new to the US.
It’s been around since the 1850’s. It’s visceral in American business.

[Neidermeyer]

I have yet to find confirmation about inaccurate dosages in the superior Auvi-Q
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It’s not the nature of the evidence; it’s the seriousness of the charge.

[wally_bert]

After my initial visit to the allergist, I was advised to get a pen in case of adverse reactions.

I never had a problem and lost it in a flood last year.