BIG Pharma:

[Talon]

BIG Pharma is basically a State Sanctioned Mass Murder Machine that kills thousands of times more people than "terrorism."

As the US government guards the Opium fields of Afghanistan, at home there is an Opioid and Heroin epidemic... Cui Bono?

cui bo·no?
kwē ˈbōnō/
exclamation

• who stands, or stood, to gain (from a crime, and so might have been responsible for it)?

http://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/overdose.html

"Overdose deaths involving prescription opioids have quadrupled since 1999,1 and so have sales of these prescription drugs.2 From 1999 to 2014, more than 165,000 people have died in the U.S. from overdoses related to prescription opioids.1
Opioid prescribing continues to fuel the epidemic. Today, at least half of all U.S. opioid overdose deaths involve a prescription opioid.1 In 2014, more than 14,000 people died from overdoses involving prescription opioids.

Most Commonly Overdosed Opioids

The most common drugs involved in prescription opioid overdose deaths include:

• Methadone
• Oxycodone (such as OxyContin®)
• Hydrocodone (such as Vicodin®)3"

[Talon]

And Heroin.

http://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/heroin.html

"Heroin-Related Overdose Deaths

As heroin use has increased, so have heroin-related overdose deaths:

• Heroin-related overdose deaths have more than tripled since 2010.
• From 2013 to 2014, heroin overdose death rates increased by 26%, with more than 10,500 people dying in 2014."

[Talon]

Let's not forget Prozac and other SSRI's.

http://www.drugs.com/prozac.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_serotonin_reuptake_inhibitor

[Unclefred]

The government, nor pharma is not responsible for weak, stupid pleasure junkies that eschewed education for comic book level philosophy. Doood.

[Absolutely!]

Let's not forget Prozac and other SSRI's.

http://www.drugs.com/prozac.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_serotonin_reuptake_inhibitor

That chick didn't tell us anything about the way the neural receptors change shape and your physical brain mutates from long term ssri use leading to various disorders like tremors, tics, parkinsons &c. Seratonin is used throughout the body, it's a very early development in the evolution of man and controls many many functions, not just happiness. It is used in all of your joints, for instance.

But anyway if people want to OD on heroin that's great. The more people die the better, provided none of them is someone I love in which case my attitude turns 180*. The world has too many people.

[bladesmith]

The Army started a lot of us on our "happy pills". That is what we really call them. They even combat stress teams to front areas to "diagnose" us and get us started. At one point just about every soldier I knew was on some type of SSRI or sleep med.

[Night]

I'm reading a book about the thalidomide mess in England in the early 60s. At least those people had Nationsl Health to help with medical and their care.

Here we have class action lawsuits where the lawyers get 33 to 50 percent of the money

[Talon]

Ritalin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylphenidate

http://www.australiannationalreview....tious-disease/

"Eisenberg, an American child psychiatrist and medical educator, also known as the father of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity, said this disease was just a theory –something Dr Edward C. Hamlyn, founding member of the Royal College of General Practitioners had been suspecting for a long time. In 1998, Dr Hamlyn said “ADHD is fraud intended to justify starting children on a life of drug addiction” and many scientists have followed in his footsteps and tried to prove this condition is a scam perpetuated by large pharmaceutical companies."

[Talon]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...lt-murder.html

"Professor Fazel, who researches the links between mental illness and violent crime, said: ‘People who were aged between 15 and 24 had a 43 per cent higher risk of committing a violent crime when medicating compared to when not medicating."

[Talon]

So a guy that hands out poison candy on Halloween isn't responsible, it's the idiots that eat it?

The government, nor pharma is not responsible for weak, stupid pleasure junkies that eschewed education for comic book level philosophy. Doood.

[dudeman]

The school has been pushing to put my young'un on rittalin. Both me and the ex are against it. For once we agree on something.

[Talon]

Don't do it. These bastards try to put all the kids (especially boys) on that shit. Then when they can't sleep, they put them on something else, then something else. It's criminal what they are doing.

The school has been pushing to put my young'un on rittalin. Both me and the ex are against it. For once we agree on something.

[Talon]

Thalidomide:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide

http://www.thalidomide.ca/the-canadian-tragedy/

Thalidomide, was hailed as a "wonder drug" that provided a "safe, sound sleep".

https://helix.northwestern.edu/article/thalidomide-tragedy-lessons-drug-safety-and-regulation

"Thalidomide first entered the German market in 1957 as an over-the-counter remedy, based on the maker’s safety claims. They advertised their product as “completely safe” for everyone, including mother and child, “even during pregnancy,” as its developers “could not find a dose high enough to kill a rat.” By 1960, thalidomide was marketed in 46 countries, with sales nearly matching those of aspirin."

[dudeman]

Don't do it. These bastards try to put all the kids (especially boys) on that shit. Then when they can't sleep, they put them on something else, then something else. It's criminal what they are doing.

Don't worry, its not gonna happen.

[Talon]

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28212223

"Last year, US giant Pfizer, the world's largest drug company by pharmaceutical revenue, made an eye-watering 42% profit margin. As one industry veteran understandably says: "I wouldn't be able to justify [those kinds of margins]."