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08/23/2016 / By D. Samuelson

Big Pharma’s addiction to television ads? The AMA has a pill for that

Well, they don’t exactly have a pill for that. But the American Medical Association (AMA) has recommended that those insipid advertisements for prescription pharmaceuticals be taken off television. But wait, weren’t all those doctors that smoked cigarettes banned long ago? One would think, in a rational world, prescription medicines would never even be allowed on television to begin with. […]

04/26/2016 / By D. Samuelson

Health conscious hypocrisy: FDA now wants their FDA-approved gateway drugs to come with ‘addiction’ and ‘death’ warning labels

I know people who suffer with severe unrelenting pain. People for whom the only relief is an opiate medication. But not all pain is equal. In the last decade millions have been prescribed OxyContin for a myriad of less intensive pain problems — while being told it was less addictive than other opiates. In 2007, Purdue Pharma paid $654 million for those […]

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