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WOW!!!! UK Parliament

SMASHES Big Pharma...

 

This is astounding!

 

UK Parliament SMASHES Big Pharma...

 

Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen

 

Thursday, April 7th, 2005

 

Just two days ago, in my newsletter article The Coming

" US Health Movement v. Big Pharma " Codex War..., I

announced the demise of Big Pharma's attempt to shut

down the supplement industry. But little did I know

at the time that that day, Tuesday, April 5th, 2005,

would go down in the annals as a double-whammy of Big

Pharma's murderous intent. Wait 'til you read this.

 

Sit up straight. For, this story you are almost NOT

going to believe. I'm going to have to convince you

with data. To do that I'm going to tell you that you

are going to have to do what I just did - you're going

to have to read a 126 page report just issued by the

British government titled " House of Commons Health

Committee - THE INFLUENCE OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL

INDUSTRY "

 

The British government is setting up the " guillotine. "

There's going to be a " Bastille Day " in London. Sell

your pharmaceutical stock - quick.

 

This morning I received an e-mail from health freedom

advocate Larry Hanus (ljhanz) who said:

 

Dear Friends,

 

This is a most important document. I encourage you to

read it in it's entirety. Please make time to do so.

You might want to read through the conclusions and

recommendations beginning on page 97 of the report,

then go back and read the entire document.

 

Please ensure that your legislators have a copy of

this. The UK has provided an excellent blueprint of

what can and MUST be done here in the United States

with regards to restoring the proper balance between

the pharmaceutical industry, it's regulatory agency,

our political leaders and the public trust. As those

who worked on this document conclude - the welfare and

health of the people is of paramount importance. All

decisions made should ultimately be to benefit the

public health.

 

I did just what Larry said to do - and he was

absolutely right. This report is dynamite. The

conclusions and recommendations are ASTOUNDING. They

sound like they came out of the mouth of the North

American Health Freedom Movement. For example:

 

The commercial success of the industry is not in

doubt, nor is its ability to produce excellent science

and important drugs; however, its ability to put the

health of the nation consistently before the needs and

expectations of its shareholders may be questioned.

The evidence to this inquiry indicated that, in recent

years, large pharmaceutical companies have become ever

more focused on a marketing-based approach. In our

view, this is the source of many of the problems we

have identified. However, these problems are global

and we received no evidence that the situation in the

UK was worse than in other countries.

 

In Chapter 8 we examined the overall influence of the

pharmaceutical industry. It is widely welcomed and

relied on, but it is also pervasive and persistent.

Our over-riding concerns are about the volume, extent

and intensity of the industry’s influence, not only on

clinical medicine and research but also on patients,

regulators, the media, civil servants and politicians.

 

The failings we have described have consequences, in

particular: The unsafe use of drugs; and The

increasing medicalisation of society. These problems

have existed in many countries. The UK may have a

better record than many others. Drugs have been used

unsafely in every country and we have no doubt that

the drift towards medicalisation is a global

phenomenon.

 

I won't go into what the report said about " the unsafe

use of drugs " - for the Vioxx scandal, et al, are

common knowledge. Read the report about those

findings. But what I find terribly enlightening is

their section on " The increasing medicalisation of

society. " For example:

 

A major and recurring issue raised during the inquiry

is the increased ‘medicalisation’ of our society – the

pill for every problem.

 

The belief that every problem may be solved with

medication seems particularly relevant in the context

of antidepressants. While we readily accept that

antidepressants can be effective medicines and have

been successfully used by many patients,...

Unhappiness is part of the spectrum of human

experience, not a medical condition.

 

This trend has not been created by the pharmaceutical

industry but it has been encouraged by it. The

industry has acted, in the words of some witnesses, as

a “disease-monger”, with the aim of categorising an

increasing number of individuals as ‘abnormal’ and

thereby requiring (drug) treatment. This process has

led to an unhealthy over-reliance on, and an over-use

of, medicines. It also diverts resources and

priorities from more significant diseases and health

problems.

 

The " Conclusions " section of the report reads like one

of my opinion pieces. But, what will stun you is the

report's " Recommendations. " There were forty eight

(48) of those, all told, which, basically, would shut

down Big Pharma's pervasive influence and control, and

provide attention to non-drug therapies. These

included: (1) removal of most drug advertising, (2)

tighter monitoring of drugs before and after launch,

(3) government funding for non-drug alternatives, (4)

monitoring of funding of " patient " groups, (5)

training in medical schools on how to evaluate drugs

versus non-drug therapies, and much, much, much, much,

more.

 

Read the report - " House of Commons Health Committee -

THE INFLUENCE OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY "

 

We are heading for a health care " Nuremberg... " And,

it's about time...

 

Stay tuned...

 

Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate

 

 

 

 

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