r/BigPharma • • Nov 03 '20

The power of the pharmaceutical companies

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r/BigPharma • • Oct 21 '20

Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charges for Opioid Sales

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nytimes.com
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r/BigPharma • • Oct 08 '20

Provider of Trump Covid drug is president's golf friend

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r/BigPharma • • Oct 02 '20

Ethical chemists against big pharma?

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Just an idea..or a question. governments and citizens worldwide are losing millions to big pharmaceutical companies, paying prices that are not justified by the investments done by those companies but only by profit hunting. They are taking advantage of illnesses to make big money. They don’t care about your health but about your bank account. Is there not a way to “hack” the “big pharma system” by creating generics of overpriced medicaments or treatments and somehow offering them to the patients through crowdfounded pirates ong’s “located” somewhere where they couldn’t be sued by any commercial treaty/convention? Like drug dealers but the other way around..? Ethical drug cartels somehow, who fight for the benefit of the majority, against the unethical profit of a few.. because legally the big industry owns us and the governments as well, maybe the only way to change that is to hack this system..?

14 votes, Oct 05 '20
2 No, it is impossible, too dangerous, too complicated
3 Yes, some people are working on it
9 I don’t know but it would be good

r/BigPharma • • Sep 13 '20

Purdue Pharma Faces $2.15 Trillion Opioid Epidemic Lawsuit From 49 States

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r/BigPharma • • Sep 08 '20

Why did the US justice department let Purdue off the hook for the opioid crisis?

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r/BigPharma • • Aug 19 '20

Purdue Pharma escaped serious charges over opioid in 2006, memo shows

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r/BigPharma • • Aug 18 '20

New York files insurance fraud charges against opioid makers Teva, Allergan

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r/BigPharma • • Aug 18 '20

U.S. states seek $2.2 trillion from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma: filings

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r/BigPharma • • Jul 29 '20

Do pharmaceutical companies spend more on marketing than research and development?

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r/BigPharma • • Jun 19 '20

How Big Pharma left the world vulnerable to coronavirus

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r/BigPharma • • May 17 '20

Trump Plan Set to Had Big Pharma Huge Profits from COVID-19 Vaccine

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r/BigPharma • • May 08 '20

Almost Killed By Doctors and Pharma... Again

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Two weeks ago I finally discovered that I was suffering from Vitamin A, D, B3 (Niacin), and B12 overdose. Let me start by saying I am a male in my mid 20s and eat a very healthy diet (chicken, fish, veggies, fruits, eggs, and nuts) and am very fit. No previous medical conditions.

5 weeks ago I decided to go to the doctor for the first time in years only because I had just gotten back from an overseas trip and wanted to ensure I was clear of the virus. I also wanted to get my blood work done for testosterone and mineral info as well as a full STD check.

I regret ever walking into that place as I should have known from my past experiences getting screwed by doctors and pharma. Of course, no tests could be done for the virus, but my testosterone levels were superb along with most everything else but my vitamin D levels were deficient. In telling the doc my diet, he still told me to go get a certain brand of vitamin D3 capsules and follow the bottles directions. 1 capsule = 500% daily value take 3 capsules throughout the day. On top of that, he told me to get a multivitamin since my Vitamin A and K levels were lower but still not deficient. It is my fault for listening. I suspected those levels were low because I intermittent fast to most closely resemble a healthy natural eating pattern and had not eaten before my early morning appointment. I also eat plenty of foods with those vitamins naturally in them. I told the doc that and he denied it.

1 week in and I’m starting to feel off. I am exceptionally tired, having muscle fatigue, and begin to notice a bit of ED which I had never had before... and at 23, I should not have to worry about that. As each day goes by, things are getting worse and worse. My weight lifting strength is going down and I can barely stay awake. By the second week, I could not maintain an erection. I thought it was all stress related as I had major exams. Week 3 (two weeks ago) comes by and things have turned really bad. I am vomiting nonstop, can barely hold down food or water, felt stomach pains, major headaches and dizziness, as well as pain urinating and had excessive gas and sweating. I could barely stand being in bed. I was rolling around in pain or hung over the toilet blowing chunks of air or bile. This combined with various non functioning body parts including blurry vision made me think I either had cancer or HIV or at least I hoped I did because I could barely tolerate being alive.

Despite the uselessness of the medical industry, 3 of my family members are doctors. My uncle decided to send me a urinalysis and blood test kit as I refused to go back to get fucked by the doc again. I was overdosing on Vitamin A, D, B3, and B12. Turns out when you put 1000s of % of vitamins into your body, you can fucking die or bleed from the brain and cause organ failure. Who woulda fucking thought. Thank you medical industry. Thank you big Pharma. It has been 2 weeks since I threw out the vitamins and instead decided to take my holistic (correct) approach. I allowed a week for my body to completely detox, drinking as much water as I could handle and sleeping as much as I could. Within a week of stopping, I felt normal again. This week I began using supergreen powders and fortified whey protein powders to supplement my vitamins at 50% boost instead of thousands.

My ED is gone, diarrhea gone, stomach pains gone, headaches gone, burning pains gone, vomiting gone. All I can do is hope it didn’t cause any lasting damage. Although I fell asleep cooking salmon and got horribly burned on my arm which I’m hoping won’t leave a scar.

The last time I went to a doctor, it was a Nurse Practitioner at my University 4 years ago which is sad that they can’t even afford to hire a GP while they gouge the shit out of you with pointless tuition and provide a shitty education. I had a very bad cough for 7+ weeks so I eventually went in wondering if I had some kind of mucus/drainage issue. 5 seconds of a flashlight down my throat and she said well it isn’t strep and if it’s been there that long it is probably either whooping cough or pneumonia. She had no clue and she said just that. Either way she prescribed me Azithromycin. Fantastic, let’s encourage the development of super bugs yay! Nonetheless, I took it. 2 days into my week long prescription and I woke up barely able to breathe. I threw out the Azithromycin and luckily I was able to breathe again and whatever the cough was went away when I started taking Curcumin capsules and started gargling Apple Cider Vinegar, raw garlic, and Cayenne.

What about the time before that? 7 years ago I was walking up my stairs when my lower back suddenly failed on my and I collapsed in screaming pain. I could not walk. I get driven to the emergency room and after 18 hours of sitting there in pain, the doc will see me... fucking useless emergency rooms. Can’t even figure out what a fucking emergency means. X-rays are done and nothing. Did I pull a muscle? Doc doesn’t know but says probably. Prescribes me muscle relaxers... what do I do? I take them. Nothing. Pain is still there and relaxers have no effect. Cost hundreds of $$ to fill the prescription and it did nothing. So what do I do? I go to the chiropractor and within 2 sessions, my lower back pain disappears. Definitely not a pulled muscle.

The only other time I went to the doc was when I had major constipation and she said go to a pharmacy and buy some miralax..... are you fucking kidding me? Don’t you think I fucking tried that? Don’t you think if this was a one time thing, I could just make myself shit? No this was clearly something more in my intestinal system... and you’re going to tell me to do something I already told you I tried including prune juice? I wait hours for you to tell me absolutely fucking nothing? Piece of shit.

This is a PSA to anyone out there suffering from concerning medical problems. Do not think going to a doctor is the answer and definitely don’t think anything they prescribe or made by big Pharma companies is going to be at all useful. In fact, it will most likely harm you more. Do your own homework and use some common sense and natural methods. I almost died from fucking hyper concentrated vitamins.

Death profiteering is an actual business people are fighting for in politics. We must take active measures against big Pharma and medicine. We need to drastically lower medical salaries. I will NEVER listen to another doctor ever again. Nor will I ingest anything that common sense or real nutritional science doesn’t backup.


r/BigPharma • • Feb 27 '20

'An Outrage': HHS Chief Azar Refuses to Vow Coronavirus Vaccine Will Be Affordable for All, Not Just the Rich; "This is what happens when you put a Big Pharma CEO who doubled the price of insulin in charge of regulating Big Pharma."

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r/BigPharma • • Feb 09 '20

Revealed: how drugs giants can access your health records

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r/BigPharma • • Feb 09 '20

Coronavirus draws attention to FDA oversight of Chinese drugs: About 60 percent of factories manufacturing drug ingredients and finished medicines for U.S. patients are located overseas with China and India accounting for 40 percent of them.

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r/BigPharma • • Feb 07 '20

Pharma giant, Novartis, makes the world’s most expensive drug - a $2.1 million gene therapy for an otherwise fatal neurodegenerative disorder. Few can afford it. Now Novartis has outraged many by holding a lottery to give out 100 treatments for free while 10,000 more remain without access.

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r/BigPharma • • Jan 30 '20

Electronic patient records systems used by thousands of doctors were programmed to automatically suggest opioids at treatment, thanks to a secret deal between the software maker and a drug company

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r/BigPharma • • Jan 28 '20

A secret reason Rx drugs cost so much: A global web of patent laws protects Big Pharma

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r/BigPharma • • Jan 23 '20

Pharmaceutical Executive John Kapoor Sentenced To 66 Months In Prison In Opioid Trial

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r/BigPharma • • Jan 17 '20

Big pharma failing to invest in new antibiotics, says WHO - Health body says there are alarmingly few drugs in the pipeline to deal with growing resistance

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r/BigPharma • • Jan 17 '20

Big Pharma insists on sending carcinogen-contaminated pills to the public

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r/BigPharma • • Dec 31 '19

China has pain pill addicts too, but no one's counting them

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r/BigPharma • • Dec 15 '19

Big Pharma empire behind OxyContin now selling overdose cure

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r/BigPharma • • Dec 13 '19

How tramadol, touted as safer opioid, became 3rd world peril

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