US Pharmaceutical Cos. & FDA Cause 100x More Deaths Than Terrorists

U.S. pharmaceutical companies and the FDA responsible for 100 times as many Americans deaths as terrorists

The FDA is getting desperate in the war to monopolize the U.S. pharmaceutical industry and prevent citizens from purchasing prescription drugs at lower prices from Canada and elsewhere. They've now invoked the "terrorism" label in the fight to suppress consumer free choice. Unbelievably, FDA commissioner Lester Crawford is now saying that prescription drugs from Canada are a threat to U.S. consumers because terrorists might be attacking us through those prescription drugs. This idea is so ridiculous as to be laughable.



For one thing, the drugs coming across the border and sold in U.S. pharmacies are extremely toxic already. Secondly, the idea that Al-Qaeda would attack the United States by targeting drug sources in a neutral country like Canada is absurd, especially when it would be so much easier to set off a dirty bomb in Washington or New York or some other large city.

Is the FDA seriously suggesting that the next wave of terrorists are going to target cholesterol drugs? Are we going to have prescription drugs that are laced with toxic chemicals that cause patients to suddenly die? And if we do, how would we tell the difference between the patients that are already dying from taking prescription drugs? This is no joke: if we have 100,000 people being killed each year by prescription drugs right now -- according to the Journal of the American Medical Association -- at what point are we supposed to notice that even more people are dying from prescription drugs laced with toxic chemicals? The prescription drugs themselves are already toxic!

With 100,000 deaths and at least 2,000,000 injuries each year being caused by legal prescription drugs in the United States, it's hard to imagine how a terrorist could add any more terror to that equation. Even 9/11 doesn't compare with the terrible statistics of prescription drugs.

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Why haven't we spent billions and billions of dollars on this much greater threat to public safety?

The 100K figure includes folks that die from filling perscriptions incorrectly and and/or taking too many pills at once. Hardly the fault of the FDA or corporations that make the pills.

Not all people are the same, and some will react adversely to certain meds. But those same meds will help most people that take them

And the 100K figure needs to be considered relative to the number of lives saved by perscription medications. If meds save 20M lives/year and 20K/year die due to a bad reaction then that's not too bad.

I feel sorry for the FDA. Folks bitch when they take too long to approve AIDS medicines. They folks bitch when medicines cause them harm when they weren't tested enough. Then folks bitch because meds are too expensive because there is too much testing required.

Drug companies profits are by and large underwhelming. There are a lot more places to make money. Look at their gross and net margins if you believe they are making lots of money. They aren't.

...this year! All because the multinational pharmaceutical corporations have successfully lobbied the WTO, etc. to protect their drug patents at the expense of the world's poor (who could have been saved with cheaper generic versions).