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"CHAPTER 3 FALSE AND MISLEADING THE MISREPRESENTATION OF CELEBREX AND VIOXX In April 20011noticed on my desk what looked like a piece of routine junk mail from Pharmacia, the manufacturer of Celebrex. When I opened it, the first thing I saw was the following headline, in large capital letters: "IMPORTANT CORRECTION OF DRUG INFORMATION." This was clearly not ordinary junk mail. The letter continued: Dear Healthcare Provider, This letter is being sent to you at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"I head into the kitchen, where the circular table holds a gravity-defying mix of unwashed plates and cutlery, cracker boxes, chocolate containers, half-eaten bonbons and more junk mail. Cereal bowls, possibly from that morning, are precariously balanced on top of everything. The walls are covered with ornate landscape paintings and portraits of wan aristocrats. Feeling like I've somehow landed in an alternate version of Grey Gardens, I head upstairs, calling S's name. No answer. I peer into a room, and one of the old ladies leaps out. "Don't look in here," she snarls. " - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"It did this through medical journals, continuing medical education, sponsored events, sales calls, and junk mail. Then, in 1981, the drug industry proposed that the FDA allow advertising directly to consumers, arguing that the public should not be denied access to the "knowledge" that would be provided by such marketing. Four years later, the pharmaceutical industry got its foot in the door when the FDA agreed to allow "direct-to-consumer" (DTC) advertising." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "This was clearly not ordinary junk mail. The letter continued: Dear Healthcare Provider, This letter is being sent to you at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA's Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising, and Communications has notified Pharmacia Corporation that it considered... promotional statements and actions by or on behalf of Pharmacia [concerning Celebrex] to be false or misleading and therefore in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Among the several 3-foot-high stacks of patients' charts, test results, consultants' notes, medical journals, and junk mail was the latest issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), from November 24, 1999. I noticed an article about Celebrex and one about Vioxx, the latest drugs for arthritis pain. Each article presented the results of a study sponsored by the drug's manufacturer claiming that the drug was significantly safer than older anti-inflammatory medication, which was available in much less costly generic form." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"The grocery store is tracking the types of foods and products you buy, and then arriving at conclusions about your age, whether or not you have children, your shopping preferences, whether or not you purchase health food products and so on; then they are selling that information to marketing companies, which then send you various pieces of junk mail. The real story on shopper loyalty discount cards However, that's not the real story of what's happening here." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Stop junk mail. According to the U.S. Postal Service, every man, woman, and child in the United States receives an average of 248 pieces of unsolicited, third-class advertising each year. To reduce this amount: • Clearly state that you do not want your name and address sold or traded whenever you write for a catalog or make a mail-order purchase. • Return mailing labels on junk mail in their postage-paid return envelope along with a note (written on reused waste paper) asking to be removed from their mailing list." - Debra Lynn Dadd, Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise (Get the book.)

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