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"They endeavor to find instances where drugs shipped for export or made by FDA approved drug manufacturers overseas and sold there at significantly lower prices are reimported into the United States. Such reimports, even when sponsored by state governments, are unlawful. FDA protects inflated domestic drug prices from competition derived from the very same drugs sold at below U.S. market prices overseas." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"The argument drug manufacturers make for the high cost of their products, which has become an old saw by now, is that the money supports research and development of new life-saving meds. They also say that expensive advertising is needed not to sell drugs but to educate doctors and patients. Indeed, a whopping 80% of their budgets is used for marketing. The major drug companies don't develop a lot of new drugs. The truth is, most new drugs are developed through basic science research conducted in universities and not in drug-company laboratories." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Since plants cannot be patented unless genetically modified, drug manufacturers will not research and promote as medicinal any natural foods or herbs, even though they generally result in far less harm and are far less toxic than laboratory drugs. There is simply no huge profit markup in natural healing. Yet diet is most certainly key when all of the research is examined. Dr. Campbell reached the conclusion that "nutrition [is] far more important in controlling cancer promotion than the dose of the initiating carcinogen" (The China Study, p. 66)." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Eastman had received, according to the Los Angeles Times, "at least $260,000 in consulting-related fees from a variety of outside sources, including six drug manufacturers." None of this was part of the public record, but the financial relationship with Warner-Lambert had been approved by two of Dr. Eastman's superiors. And Dr. Eastman was by no means alone." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Probably, drug manufacturers would rather discover and market drugs that do correct biochemical imbalances but this cannot be done because no biochemical imbalances have been identified in the brains of patients with diagnoses such as anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia. Therefore, the drug companies are limited to giving toxins to rats until they find ones that disrupt the rat's normally functioning brain, causing biochemical imbalances. Then they try to argue that this particular intervention has beneficial effects." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Although I would continue to testify in criminal and malpractice cases, after the Wesbecker case none of the antidepressant drug manufacturers have chosen to take any of my other cases to trial, instead often settling to the satisfaction of the plaintiffs. The drug companies are not only afraid of losing in court, they are probably more afraid of allowing sealed (secret) in-house documents with their smoking guns to see the light of day during public trials." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Doctors, hospitals, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), the media, drug manufacturers and the FDA all play a part in the massive consumption of drugs in this country. In this chapter, you have seen how the system is gamed with each group contributing to our national health crisis. But who is ultimately responsible for our over-reliance on prescription drugs? Physicians have a tough job. They do their best under trying conditions, working long hours. Most hospitals have been systematically transitioned to for-profit business models." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"Maintaining a state of public malnutrition with a high-tech diet has become highly profitable for food and drug manufacturers. Dr R." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"The drug manufacturers heavily influence doctors to keep pushing these onto patients. And as a result, most chemotherapy patients eventually give in to conventional medicine and end up generating these stratospheric profits for pharmaceutical companies that manufacture chemotherapy agents. Diabetes is caused (and reversed) by food choice Diabetes is another disease that is primarily caused by dietary factors." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Maintaining a state of public malnutrition with a hightech diet has become highly profitable for food and drug manufacturers. Malnutrition Studies The amount of disease caused by poor nutrition has been studied in institutions, primarily hospitals and nursing homes. These are the last places in the world you would expect nutrition to be neglected. In one study, it was found half the surgical patients suffered protein-calorie malnutrition, and the general medical patients were even worse off. In another study, 20% of the patients studied were deficient in each nutrient examined." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"The Power of Advertising Today's drug manufacturers have taken a page from the tobacco industry advertising playbook and are marketing their products directly to consumers. What started in 1952 with Speedy Alka-Seltzer's "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz..." has catapulted into a multibillion dollar business with approximately one of every four TV commercials being ads for drugs. This type of promotion is commonly called direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising and it is designed to sell drugs by getting people to wonder whether or not a drug is "right for them." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"In view of the growing number of users, Mosholder contacted drug manufacturers and requested that they provide additional data from their drug trials. When he completed his study, he was convinced that the British had it right. The drug companies' own data revealed the dangers which most physicians simply did not know existed. He was to present his findings at an FDA advisory committee meeting scheduled for February 2004. However, when his superiors learned of the conclusions he was going to share, they would not allow him to make his presentation." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"The one thing that doctors, HMOs, hospitals, lobbyists and drug manufacturers have in common is their pursuit of money under the guise of health care. It is a broken, unworkable system that puts you in a vulnerable position. Until we have free health care for all Americans focused on disease prevention instead of disease management, our health will continue to decline and the costs to manage our self-inflicted diseases will continue to soar." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"Most medical doctors can only pass on the information they receive from the drug manufacturers. The whole drug side effect issue is complicated by the fact that drug reactions are only rarely reported by general practitioners. The British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology reported in 1997 that "most prescription drugs are more dangerous than they appear because doctors rarely report side effects to the appropriate authorities." This tragic situation was confirmed by French researchers, who discovered massive underreporting of adverse reactions to prescription drugs." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "By law, the drug manufacturers are required to list all the risks of their drugs in this manual. The entry for Hormone Replacement Therapy includes: womb cancer; breast tenderness/enlargement; undesirable weight gain/loss; elevated blood pressure; mental depression; reduced carbohydrate and glucose tolerance; hair loss; vaginal candidacies (thrush); jaundice; abdominal cramps; vomiting; cystitis-like syndrome. Menopausal symptoms may begin to seem mild when compared with any of these side effects." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "JRI did some investigating and located the offshore chemical synthesizers that supply the FDA-approved active ingredients to the drug manufacturers. JRI collected the data and pricing for the active ingredients and the consumer markup price for the most popular drugs in the U.S. For example, the popular drug Xanax sells for $136. At a cost price of 0.02 for its active ingredients, the markup for Xanax is a staggering 683,950 percent. Norvask sells for $188.29 but costs $0.14 to make; its markup is 134,493 percent. Zolofts's markup is 11,821 percent." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), drug manufacturers and traditional health care providers have purposely chosen to mask the symptoms rather than provide real solutions that could eliminate self-inflicted conditions before they damage us. The FDA, which could do so much more to protect people, has a curious way of dealing with the health issues of the twentieth-first century." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"This test allows drug manufacturers, for the first time, to see all the negative side effects that non-prescription and prescription drugs will have on the body. It also tests the long-term effectiveness of these drugs. I have personal firsthand knowledge of this individual and the company he works for. This technology proves for the first time that every single over-the-counter non-prescription drug and every single prescription drug simply temporarily suppresses symptoms. This test proves that there is not one single drug manufactured that actually cures any disease." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"AARP conducted a survey of prescription drug manufacturers' prices and discovered that they have been accelerating for years, dramatically outpacing the overall rate of inflation.8 Its analysis of 150 popular products shows that price tags on these brand-name drugs rose an average of 35 percent between 1999 and 2004. That's almost three times higher than overall inflation during that time, which amounted to 13.5 percent.9 The result of this trend is per-pill prices that take your breath away. The cost of the sleeping pill Ambien (Zolpidem), which is advertised directly to consumers, jumped 11." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.) "These are the middlemen who buy drugs from the drug manufacturers and distribute them to retail pharmacies. Canadian regulators do not allow widespread repackaging. When you get your bottle of pills from a pharmacist in Canada, it usually comes in the original sealed container from the drug company. In the United States, there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of wholesalers and repackages. Huge batches of pills are taken out of big bottles and redistributed into lots of little bottles. Chances are good that most of your medications are in small pill bottles that came from a pharmacy." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"Before the passage of rare disease laws in the United States, people diagnosed with rare diseases were denied access to effective medicines because prescription drug manufacturers rarely could make a profit from marketing drugs to such small groups. Consequently, the prescription drug industry did not adequately fund research for the development of so-called orphan products. Other potential sources, such as research hospitals and universities, also lacked the capital and business expertise to develop treatments for small patient groups." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"These patents essentially allow drug manufacturers to arbitrarily define the profits for their products. 4. The marketplace for the pharmaceutical industry is the human body - but only for as long as the body hosts diseases. Thus, maintaining and expanding diseases is a precondition for the growth of the pharmaceutical industry. 5. A key strategy to accomplish this goal is the development of drugs that merely mask symptoms while avoiding the curing or elimination of diseases. This explains why most prescription drugs marketed today have no proven efficacy and merely target symptoms. 6." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "The taxpayers of Hawaii have been swindled by certain drug manufacturers falsely inflating prices in our Medicaid programs and to Medicare beneficiaries." - Lillian Roller, director of the state Department of Human Services. <•* A quick review of press releases available on the website of the Attorney General shows California: Filed a complaint accusing pharmaceutical manufacturer Bristol-Myers Squibb Inc." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"We have "lemon" laws to protect consumers from deceptive auto salesmen but it's apparently an accepted practice for drug manufacturers to grow rich from your misery These companies sell you even more drugs instead of fixing what's wrong by addressing the root cause of your problem. The key to renewed health is obviously to eliminate as many toxins as you can from your environment on a daily basis (see Part II—How to Live in a Green, Toxin Free Environment) before they even reach your intestines. Let's face one of the main problems though—addiction!" - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"The amount of advertising that drug companies do on television, radio, and in print is at an all-time high and growing. drug manufacturers have only one goal, that is to increase profits. The only way they can increase profits is to convince people that they need to use more drugs. Drug companies simply want more people taking more drugs more consistently. Drug companies are not interested in health, they're interested in increasing sales and profits. In order to make this happen, drug companies are producing very sophisticated advertisements for television, radio, and print." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"The amount of dollars spent on scientific research that is going into Zyflamend is not nearly the equivalent of what drug manufacturers have put into Vioxx or Celebrex. Their research dollars total hundreds of millions of dollars or billions when combined (although likely to be a far lower cost than Merck's future litigation payouts). The few million spent on researching Zyflamend is minuscule compared with these amounts. For the dietary supplement industry, however, that amount represents an enormous investment." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"This medical liability legislation is being used as a cover to grant amnesty to drug manufacturers, protecting them from having to compensate millions of patients for the harm their drugs have caused. It is payback for the pharmaceutical industry, which was the largest corporate sponsor of the Bush election campaign. The people of America and their political representatives have to realize that the proposed medical liability legislation is a "Trojan Horse." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) "Why isn't the FTC suing these drug manufacturers, demanding a complete asset freeze and a complete freezing of personal assets of the officers and directors? The answer is political payoffs. Every one of you reading this should be mad as hell. This is an outrage to the highest degree. The corruption in both the FDA and the FTC is beyond belief. I have personal investigators reviewing all of the workings at these organizations. I have inside moles telling me the secrets. We are looking at the individual people involved at both the FDA and the FTC." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"That organization had been keeping a list of scientists whom they identified as receiving financial contributions from drug manufacturers. During the fourth week of February, they released their findings to the New York Times?1 The Center for Science in the Public Interest did not have records for all the members of the panel, but they had enough information to reveal why the committee voted in favor of the drugs. Ten panel members had financial ties with either Pfizer (maker of Celebrex and Bextra) or Merck." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.) "When the result of the observational study of postmenopausal women and heart disease erroneously found that hormones actually reduced the risk of heart disease,57 Wyeth and the other drug manufacturers had the medical research they needed to restore sales of Premarin to its top position. Ads appeared in the journals, literature was given to physicians, and dinners and conferences were held on the benefits of HRT (paid for by drug companies). Sales soared." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

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