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Invasion Of The Body Hunters
With all of the follow up tests I have been receiving since I had my close brush with death, I am becoming more and more aware of drug commercials that I have seen on CNN -experimental surgeries for weight loss and clinical trials that have been made available to me. I had at least two recommendations for an experimental surgery for weight loss and also a recommendation for a change in the medications I take.
The drug that was recommended was a drug that I have seen advertised on CNN and it is the same drug that I have seen listed as a drug that has been determined to have serious side effects and that a class action lawsuit had been filed for damages caused by the drug.
When I asked the doctor why she would recommend that particular drug with all of the side effects for damaging lawsuits, she said “This is America and America is very litigious.”
I didn’t want to argue with the doctor about taking any new drugs and so I said I was satisfied with what I was taking. When another doctor recommended some risky surgery for weight loss and my sleep apnea, I also said an emphatic no – and then he recommended that I get a flu shot. I don’t know how many emphatic no’s I could give in one visit. The thing was – I had lost 40 pounds, my health was improving, I already was using a CPAP machine for snoring and according to my chart, I was steadily seeing improvement.
I walked away wondering why they were so passionate with the idea that I take a new drug and get some controversial treatment for my weight loss and sleep disorder.
Immediately after my doctor’s visit, I decided to do some research on clinical trials and how the Food and Drug Administration approves certain drugs that are still in the experimental stage.
What I found in my research reminded me that even though the government claims it is not testing chemicals on unsuspecting Americans, the big pharmaceutical companies are pimping drugs that eventually have post-marketing label changes due to safety concerns about their use.
It looks like every month the Food and Drug Administration posts a list of all drugs that have had “safety labeling changes to the contra-indications, boxed warnings, precautions or adverse reactions sanctions.”
In other words what you once thought was a safe drug, become more dangerous or have shown to have more possibly dangerous side effects while being used by a patient.
The result is a drug that is worse than before, worse in different ways than their makers knew or admitted to know when they declared it fit the public to take for their health disorders.
The pharmaceutical companies have been forced to tell us about dangers, problem contra-indications, and side effects regarding the products that millions of Americans are already using.
We all know that recently there was a controversy over the use of some SSRI drugs. There has been a long-standing concern that antidepressants may have a role in inducing a worsening of depression and the emergence of suicide in certain patients during the early phases of SSRI treatment.
Acetaminophen is often used in pain medications with opioids such as oxycodone (Percocet), hydrocodone (Vicodin) and codeine (Tylenol with Codeine). These are called combination drugs, and the Food and Drug Administration recently began asking doctors to stop prescribing those that have more than 325 mg of acetaminophen per dose.
There were no warnings given as to how dangerous Acetaminophen was on the liver until there were accidental overdoses from combination drug taking of Tylenol and other drugs with Tylenol hidden in them like Nyquil.
In fact, it was considered in 2009 to have Nyquil and other combination cold medications pulled from the shelves because of the danger.
Furthermore, the massively marketed drugs that have become household names like Effexor, Flonase, Ritalin, Xanax, Zithromax, and Zyprexa are among the many that have seen changes in their labeling over the years.
Vioxx which is used to treat pain can now cause migraine headaches with or without auras.
Zyrtek, a widely used drug for allergy symptoms has now been admittedly to rarely cause blocking of the livers bile ducts, swelling of the kidneys, destruction of red blood cells , hepatitis, involuntary facial movements, severely low blood pressure, still birth, and “aggressive reaction and convulsions.”
These are conditions that can happen —not that they will happen in everyone, but can happen to someone.
The consumer takes the risk.
How does this happen? Before the FDA approves a new drug, it must undergo clinical trials. These trials aren’t performed by the FDA, though — they’re done by the drug companies themselves.
These trials often use relatively few patients, and they usually select patients most likely to react well to the drug. On top of that, the trials are often for a short period of time (weeks), even though real-world users may be on a drug for months or years at a time.
The conspiracy is that Big Pharma is in collusion with the government to use people in drug experiments and then sometimes pushing through a drug without thorough evaluation of some of the side effects.
But of course, saying something like this gets you all kinds of derision.
Some people say “Oh, the American government would never do that.”
Many feel safe in their self assurance that they are somehow ruled by compassionate, honest government operatives and corporate drug do-gooders who are always looking out for the public’s best interest.
It is not even known by most people that even when adverse effects show up during clinical trials, the drugs are sometimes released anyway, and they end up being taken off the market because of those same adverse effects.
Post-marketing reporting of adverse effects isn’t much better. The FDA runs a program to collect reports of problems with drugs, but compliance is voluntary. The generally accepted estimate in the medical community is that a scant 10 percent of individual instances of adverse effects are reported to the FDA, which would mean that the problem is ten times worse than we currently believe.
Drugs aren’t released when they’ve been proven safe; they’re released when enough FDA bureaucrats, many of whom have worked for the pharmaceutical companies or will work for them in the future, can be convinced that it’s kinda safe.
Basically, the use of prescription drugs by the general public can be seen as widespread, long-term clinical trials to determine their true safety.
This means that chemical testing is still going on and the American people are willing participants because they are told that these drugs are needed for their health.
What is also frightening is that experiments also happen with the blessing of the U.S. Government in other countries. When I lived in Buenos Aires, I was told by a doctor that there are many drugs available in South America that was going through clinical trials in the United States. These were used on unsuspecting South Americans and prescribed by their doctors.
In 2010, it was announced that the United States had purposely infected hundreds of Guatemalans with gonorrhea and syphilis back in the 1940s as part of an “inoculation study”.
U.S. Government medical researchers secretly infected institutionalized mental patients in Guatemala with the STDs, without their knowledge. They then prompted those patients to spread the disease around to others as part of their study.
The Tuskegee syphilis experiment was an infamous clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in rural African-American men in Alabama. They were told that they were receiving free health care from the U.S. Government.
On May 16, 1997, President Bill Clinton formally apologized and held a ceremony at the White House for surviving Tuskegee study participants.
A modified form of Brucellosis was tested. In the summer of 1984 at Tahoe-Truckee High School in California, the teachers’ lounge was the target area. Seven of the eight teachers assigned to the room became very ill within months. There were other undisclosed locations where the pathogen was tested using an airborne aerosolized delivery system and contaminated mosquitoes.
Many people began suffering from general debilitation and tiredness. When it became known that the contagion was spreading into the general population, top officials with the National Institute of Health and Center for Disease Control, as well as the Defense Department and the Department of Health and Human Resources, began a program of misrepresentation of the disease to mask their role in its origin. The illness was claimed to be connected to the Epstein-Barr virus and was labeled “Chronic Mononucleosis.”
This has now become known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. In the beginning, this disorder was classified as a psychological disorder.
This is the conspiracy between your government and Big Pharma —testing is always happening, whether it is an abhorrent mass experiment or the use of drugs with dangerous side effects that need post-marketing labels and warnings.
All their medical experiments on innocent children, expectant mothers, blacks, prisoners and soldiers are all designed to “help them find new cures,” they claim.
There are 40,000 clinical trials going on in the United States right now, and 20 million Americans are recruited into clinical trials annually by universities, medical centers and drug companies. Some have cancer or other illnesses that are threatening their lives, but did you know there is a hot competition for clinical trial recruits who aren’t even sick?
It’s an easy but risky way to make money.
Who can complain when you get food, money and movies and maybe even overnight accommodations?
The National Institutes of Health alone enrolls 5,000 normal healthy research volunteers, or NHRVs, each year for phase I trials to determine drug safety and absorption.
Fifty to ninety-three percent of volunteers say money was a significant motivator. A recent study shows a third have college degrees, half were employed full-time, and nearly one in three had been in more than 10 studies.
How much can a clinical trial guinea pig make? Diarrhea drugs can pay $1,000 for a weekend trial, asthma up to $3,000. Sunscreens are tested at $65 per square inch. Some studies pay upwards of $10,000 dollars, but is money the only motivator?
Well some do it for the altruism; some are curious and are easily excited. Some have a self or family interest.
When you are part of a paid experiment – sure you get thousands of dollars, but is the risk worth it?
Six unidentified British men experienced horrible side effects during a phase I trial to determine whether a drug to treat leukemia was safe in humans. They were paid $3,500 dollars and underwent several injections. All six ended up in intensive care with severe pain and organ failure.
Whenever you hear about those dangerous side effects with the drug – these unfortunate rare instances are what they are talking about. It doesn’t happen to everyone, but it happens to someone.
The law puts no limit on how much privately funded researchers can pay study participants—and there are really no law keeping people from participating in these risky trials.
I guess you can’t legislate the risky business of body hunting.
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