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Counterfeit Drugs: Infected with Greed

Counterfit drugs are flooding hospitals and markets worldwide.

By Terry J. Allen

Counterfeit pharmaceuticals are flooding hospitals, Web sites, pharmacies and street markets around the world. Visibly indistinguishable from life-saving medicine, the pharmafakes plague the developing world, affecting millions of people and undermining confidence in public health. Counterfeit drug sales will reach $75 billion globally in 2010, a more than 90 percent increase from 2005, according to the Center for Medicines in… return to article

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    Every serious scholar of the drug distribution channel recognizes the danger of counterfeits entering the supply chain through diversion and secondary markets.  We can stop counterfeits from entering the supply chain by putting counterfeiters in jail, monitoring the channel, and requiring all wholesalers and pharmacies to source legitimately. 

    So given the known dangers of counterfeits, why are Democratic politicians so eager to open our borders to reimportation?  Seems very risky given how much progress has been made in squeezing secondary markets over the past few years.

    Adam J. Fein
    http://drugchannels.blogspot.com

    United States Posted by adamjfein on Oct 5, 2006 at 8:19 PM

    >>>>So given the known dangers of counterfeits, why are Democratic politicians so eager to open our borders to reimportation?  <<<<

    Because they know you are a hustler?

    United States Posted by Spinoza750 on Oct 10, 2006 at 3:06 PM

    <<<Counterfeit Drugs: Infected with Greed<<<<

    The known disease is called capitalism.  Go back to the 1850’s New York City and the equivalent of fake drugs were regularly being sold. Go to the green grocer and his thumb use to be very heavy.  Greed, or capitalism has always been this way unless there is regulation and a different ethic prevailing.  For example, the number of scams practiced against older, poorer people in Sweden is lower than in the USA. Why? This is a combination of regulation but mostly an ethic that disallows capitalist greed.  Capitalism is not an economic system alone but it is also an ethical system.  What civilized people always have to do is fight against capitalism until it is completely overthrown.

    Capitalism is evil.

    Capitalism = might makes right . Do in your neighbor before he does you in. It is a dog eat dog world. Get yours. Competition is virtuous

    Socialism = peace with justice.  Do unto others as you would wish others do unto you. Production for use and not for profit. Cooperation is virtuous.

    United States Posted by Spinoza750 on Oct 10, 2006 at 4:03 PM

    The medical industry is exceedingly corrupt. Every aspect of it.

    Most everyone working in it are overpaid. The doctors are very overpaid (and often overworked).  Doctors should not be persons looking to make oodles of money but are looking to help people, the same is true of everyone in the field.  Most everything related to the medical industry is very overpriced.

    This is because the structure of the industry is based on monopoly.  The number of Drs. are set by the industry. The prescription drug racket is run on a mafia basis. The most corrupt is the insurance industry which scams off oodles of money for doing absolutely nothing.

    This is the American ideal system that the capitalist crooks want to institute in all industry.  It is a system for moving wealth from the many to the few.

    United States Posted by Spinoza750 on Oct 10, 2006 at 4:26 PM

    >>>The pharmafake trade also lends credence to the view that all Western medical initiatives are profit-driven fraud and bolsters quacks promoting such home-grown tragedies as treating AIDS with garlic and beetroot instead of antiretrovirals, as Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, South Africa’s criminally deluded minister of health, has said.<<<

    This is another problem. Many of the prescription drugs available don’t do anything. They are poorly studied as well as overpriced.

    It is reasonable to be sceptical of their efficacy and safety.  Many of the so called cancer and antiretroviral drugs seem worse than the disease. Many of the new antibiotics are not as good as penicillin.

    Lately a lot of medical research seems to have a high level of unethical practices associated with it; --- Especially the pharmaceutical companies underwriting of it.

    United States Posted by Spinoza750 on Oct 10, 2006 at 4:38 PM

    I heard about polish drugstore. They sell
    medicines without prescription!
    www.aptekaotc.pl

    Poland Posted by nemeczek on Nov 25, 2006 at 1:35 AM
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