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Showing posts with label Pharma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pharma. Show all posts

Monday, November 17, 2008

Big Pharma Promoting Highly-Addictive Schedule-III Painkiller Drugs to Little Boys

Big Pharma is promoting Zamicet, a schedule-III painkiller (like a highly-addictive narcotic that would land you in prison if you sold it on the street) to treat young boys. This is the implication of a new ad (see below) in which a young boy in a karate outfit appears in the Zamicet ad.Drug companies, it appears, will sell anything to anyone, including infants, toddlers and young boys. It's not enough to drug them on Ritalin and SSRIs, now they need powerful painkilling narcotics, too!

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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Big Pharma May be Handed Blanket Immunity for All Drug Side Effects, Deaths

The Supreme Court may rule that pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued for dangerous or even deadly side effects from their drugs if those side effects arise from an FDA-approved use.Under a legal argument known as "pre-emption," the FDA's approval of a drug absolves companies of any responsibility if that drug later turns out to be dangerous, even if information was concealed from the FDA during the approval process. While courts have rejected this argument for decades, the winds appear to be shifting.

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