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Originally Posted by analog
Considering you say "properly prescribed", I question your use of the extreme hyperbole of "murdered" to describe people who lose their lives due to medicines they're taking. To be frank, it's crass and asinine.
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It may be offensive to you as a health care worker, but if people were dropping like flies eating vitamin C, you can bet the FDA would be all over it, banning this important nutrient as if it were rat poison.
The pattern of the pharma companies is they ride a new drug out as long as they can until the lawsuits start piling up and public outcry gets to be so bad they can't stifle it any longer, and then they pull the drug.
Remember, it was Eli Lily that gave us LSD and PCP. It took an act of congress to get those drugs (Which had been hailed as cures for alcoholism, mental illness and were being given to birthing women all over america - during their births) pulled from the marketplace.
The CDC calls it accidental death, I call it murder.
Have you heard of the drug cytotec? It is being used all over the world to induce labor in pregnant women, yet the FDA has not approved this ulcer drug for use on pregnant women. The docs use it because it is cheap and it produces these overwhelming contractions. The nurses call it Cytoblast because of the effect it has on labor.
This drug has been the cause of uterine ruptures in mothers who have not even had a c-section because it is so powerful. Mothers and babies are dying because of its use. WHO is going to stop the use of it, if the doctors feel free to use any drug they want without it even being approved? This is one of the main reasons I give birth at home. Some doctors will come in and put some of it on a womans cervix without even telling her what it is. No informed consent, the only thing she knows is that her labor just became so painful she wants to die.
Jenny