Our Daily Meds, We need a law banning doctors from taking money from drug companies

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With doctors and Congress compromised, what about that other gatekeeper, the FDA [ the US Food and Drug Administration ], Bill Moyers asked Melody Petersen, author of a new book called Our Daily Meds: How The Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves Into Slick Marketing Machines And Hooked The Nation On Prescription Drugs.

Actually, the drug industry pays the FDA, too, Petersen answered.

There was a change in the law in 1992. Before 1992, the FDA had one customer, and that was us, the public.

But in [ 1992 ], the drug companies started to pay fees to get their drugs reviewed and approved.

So the FDA has another customer now, and that is the drug companies.

Talking to scientists inside the FDA, you learn that there is an awful lot of pressure to do what the [ drug ] industry wants [ the FDA ] to do.

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Science & Technology

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• prescription
• drugs
• medicines
• drug
• industry
• pharmaceutical
• deaths

[sMs0niC]

lol we need a law that prohibites the drug companies to earn money at all! fuck this stupid ideas! wake up! as long as pharmeceutical industries can earn money, we (the ones with less brain (about 99.9 % of humanity) are all fucked. they should get money only for drugs that are absolutely necessary! most people take drugs just for some stupid small deseases where drugs wouldn't be necessary at all...

[wasjunk]

HOW IS THE WAR ON DRUGS WORK NOW