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.
And if you OD, the estate is taken by the State and the social security payments stop.
I challenge anyone to find a network newscast that isn’t driven by 80% pharmaceutical advertising.
They make street dealers look ethical.
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.
Big pharma is controlled by the elites. They control what laws are made,
What happened with Oxy is all part of the 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
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.
Nothing like picking up a vet with two rods in his back courtesy of an IED that threw his vehicle into the air and compressed his spine after an appointment with a pain management specialist (AKA, a physician’s assistant) - a journey nearly 40 miles from his home - and he just got told that ‘we’ve decided you don’t need any prescription pain medications, we suggest over the counter solutions.’
Why 40 miles? Because the doctor who lives across the street from his home is part of a medical group that refuses to write any prescriptions for pain medications in order to ‘curb the opioid epidemic.’
Not a new prescription, a long standing existing one that no one will renew.
Well, that was the case. I took him to the VA clinic, the nurse pulled his military medical records, went in, talked to the doctor for a moment, and came right out with a renewed prescription. There were a couple strings attached; the doctor wants to refer to a specialist and see if though some additional surgery that pain can be addressed and he’s got a monthly appointment to check on his progress and to renew the prescription.
The ‘opioid epidemic’ is just new branding for an age old issue; people will abuse drugs (including alcohol.) Targeting one specific type of drug is just the way the media gets more story inches in print and fills their broadcasts.
I read the article yesterday morning, linked from Drudge I think, then just happened to catch the 60 Minutes treatment of the same subject last evening.
Please post a link if I missed the correct thread, but isn't anyone remotely interested in:
"The chief advocate of the law that hobbled the DEA was Rep. Tom Marino, a Pennsylvania Republican who is now President Trump’s nominee to become the nation’s next drug czar. Marino spent years trying to move the law through Congress. It passed after Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) negotiated a final version with the DEA."
I (probably like many freepers) have a personal interest in opioid threads, but it sounds like Trump is wondering himself about Rep. Tom Marino, what is the word round these parts?
The DEA, compost, CBS are no friends of liberty. These stories are no doubt slanted.
True, big pharma is corrupt and exploitative.
Can we trust government stats? If someone dies of terminal cancer or suicide with opiates prescribed or on the tox screen, I’m sure opiates are listed as one of the causes of death.
But in the end, one thing is for sure; the result is more government control and totalitarianism.
Now, let me get this straight. You have a licensed and approved pharmaceutical manufacturer distributing a drug that has gained federal approval, to a licensed pharmacy, which can only sell it to people who have a valid prescription from a properly licensed and qualified medical practitioner.
I’m having a hard time identifying any illegality here. Any legal distribution to the consumer has to go through several levels of licensed, learned professionals.
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