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"Patients who nevertheless wanted a prescription drug could choose from an array of cheap medicines that had been on the market for decades and worked in a similar way to Detrol. With such low-priced drugs and doctors hesitant to prescribe them, the market for medicines for incontinence was worth just forty million dollars a year in the United States, hardly significant to the major pharmaceutical firms looking for their next big hit. This did not sway Pharmacia executives, however, who were determined to enter the market and shake it up." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "In 2001, a company called Celltech was the first to use consumer advertisements to promote a prescription drug that had been classified as a Schedule II substance by drug enforcement officials. Drugs on Schedule II are the nation's most addictive drugs that also have a medical purpose. Only Schedule I drugs, which include cocaine, heroin, and other drugs with no legal purpose, are more tightly controlled by the Drug Enforcement Administration." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "That sum was far more than had ever been spent to advertise a prescription drug and more than was spent that year to advertise Coca-Cola Classic, Coors Light, or American Express. Schering's ads featured smiling people romping in green fields to the tune of "Blue Skies" by Irving Berlin. Other ads featured Joan Lunden, the former host of ABC's Good Morning America, hiking through a field of flowers and telling viewers that Claritin had cleared her head. The marketing worked beautifully. Led by Claritin, sales of antihistamines soared by 612 percent between 1993 and 1998." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Already scientists have traced a widespread ecological disaster of a different sort to a prescription drug. In 2000 Dr. J. Lindsay Oaks, an assistant professor of veterinary medicine at Washington State University, began investigating a mysterious 95 percent plunge in the number of vultures in Pakistan. Three years later he had his answer. South Asian farmers had begun to give their cattle a drug called diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory pain reliever that is prescribed to Americans suffering from arthritis." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"He went after state medical societies for their bans on the advertisement of prescription drug and eyeglass prices. In fourteen months he filed thirty-four antitrust actions. "The consumer was always the bottom line for Lew," recalls Bob Lewis, who served on Engman's staff. "Ts this going to benefit the consumer?' That was always the question he asked at the end of the debate about anything." By the time he left the FTC in 1977, when a Democratic administration was about to take office, Engman had succeeded in making deregulation a mainstream Republican goal." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Continued next column OVERDOSE Don't take with: Any other prescription drug, nonprescription drug or alcohol without first checking with your doctor or pharmacist. 0 POSSIBLE ADVERSE REACTIONS OR SIDE EFFECTS SYMPTOMS WHAT TO DO Life-threatening: High fever, rapid pulse, profuse sweating, muscle rigidity, confusion and irritability, seizures; fever, chills, mouth sores. Discontinue. emergency treatment. Seek Common: Dry mouth, blurred vision, constipation, difficulty urinating; sedation, low blood pressure, dizziness. Continue. Call doctor when convenient." - H. Winter Griffith, M.D., Complete Guide to Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs 2005 (Get the book.) "Don't buy from sites that offer to prescribe a prescription drug for the first time without a physical exam, sell a prescription drug without a prescription, or sell drugs not approved by the FDA. • Don't purchase from foreign websites at this time, because generally it will be illegal to import the drugs bought from these sites, the risks are greater, and there is very little the U.S. Government can do if you get ripped off. • Avoid sites that do not identify themselves and do not provide a U.S. address and phone number to contact if there's a problem." - H. Winter Griffith, M.D., Complete Guide to Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs 2005 (Get the book.)

"Yet as most of us who have cared for older loved ones know, the prescription drug cabinet can be a mixed blessing at best. Clinicians who specialize in the diseases of the elderly are increasingly concerned with the impact of extended pharmaceutical use. Note: That's use, not abuse or even overuse, that they're concerned about. Of course, audiences for anything — drugs, movies, or even fast food — no longer just "happen" around a great performance or a great product; audiences, as any good marketing person will tell you, are created. And so it is with America's pharmaceutical tribes." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) "That is the amount pharma now pays in "fees" to get products reviewed in a timely fashion through PDUFA, the prescription drug User Fee Act. Speaking of PDUFA: it should not be renewed. That will help put an end to the sweatshop environment in the agency, and take away any "legitimate" pressure to hurry through new drugs. Truly urgent new compounds — for cancer — can be shepherded through a division focused on expanded investigational drug trials. The agency should also spend more money on two new surveillance systems for adverse effects." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) "But in the process of wrestling with that issue, Hayes quietly became a convert to the notion of direct-to-consumer (DTC) prescription drug advertising. It wasn't a big stretch for him; unlike so many academics, not to mention FDA careerists, Hayes arrived unburdened by elitist opposition to advertising in general. Both his mother and father were employed in the industry — his father eventually became president of CBS Radio — and one summer young Arthur, as a student, worked in the mailroom of the ad giant McCann Erickson." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"Your pharmacist can tell you all active and inert ingredients in a prescription drug. Occasionally, a tablet, capsule or liquid may contain small amounts of sodium, sugar or potassium. If you are on a diet that severely restricts any of these, ask your pharmacist or doctor to suggest another form. Some liquid medications contain alcohol. Avoid them if you are susceptible to the adverse effects of alcohol consumption. BASIC INFORMATION-3—Habit Forming A drug habit can be physical or psychological. Either leads to drug dependence." - H. Winter Griffith, M.D., Complete Guide to Prescription and Nonprescription Drugs 2005 (Get the book.)

"In the United States, the physician orders at least one diagnostic or screening test in three-quarters of all visits, a therapeutic service one-third of the time, and a prescription drug two-thirds of the time. We'll assess the worth of diagnostic and screening tests in a few pages; in chapter 5, we'll assess the efficacy of common prescription drugs Of all maladies that bring patients to the office, the most common one is the common cold. Its treatment is where we begin. THE COMMON COLD In 1994, about one of every ten visits to a primary care physician was for treatment of this malady." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Approximately 45% of Americans use at least one prescription drug.1 2 The Kaiser Family Foundation reports 2.1 billion prescriptions were written in 1994 and 3.5 billion prescriptions were written in 2004—a 68% increase. Spending for U.S. prescription drugs was 188.5 billion dollars in 2004, a 450% increase since 1990.3 Unbelievably, it is projected that in 2015, prescription drug spending will exceed 446.2 billion dollars. We spend more money on health care than any other country. Are we healthier for this increased use in prescription medications? The answer is no." - David Brownstein M.D., Drugs That Don't Work and Natural Therapies That Do (Get the book.)

"To ensure clinical trials serve a genuine medical need and are properly designed, conducted and reported, Angell proposed that an Institute for prescription drug Trials be established to administer the clinical trials of prescription drugs. • The laws should be tightened so the period of exclusivity in which monopoly prices can be charged is shortened and made less flexible. • Drug companies should be excluded from offering medical education. • Direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs should be banned." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"Sure, in some cases the distinction between what is considered a prescription drug and what isn't is pretty darn arbitrary, and sure, things move in and out of those categories all the time (look at former prescription drugs like Claritin, for example, that are now sold over the counter). And sure, some things that are not available by prescription (the hormone DHEA, for example) probably should be." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"In the debate over prescription drug prices, drug safety, and oversight from the FDA, the assumption has been that everybody has access to the same data and that everybody, from drug safety officers to doctors to insurers, is equally capable of assessing the merits and dangers of a drug. That's not the case. In fact, maybe the real problem with prescription drugs, and indeed with medical technology in general, is not so much that they cost too much or that they're too dangerous or that they don't always work the way they're supposed to." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Injections that combined restylane and the prescription drug Botox (botulinum toxin) were also reported to be more effective than injections of either product alone. 9. Peptides. Peptides are chains of amino acids often used in anti-wrinkle products. One expensive anti-wrinkle cosmeceutical, StriVectin-SD, aggressively marketed as an "Anti-Aging Breakthrough" and "Better than BOTOX," is based on a chain of amino acids known as Pal-KTTKS (sold under the trade name Matrixyl)." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"PhRMA wanted to curb this trend, especially while Medicare prescription drug coverage was being debated on Capitol Hill. As if out of nowhere, the safety of drugs purchased from other countries became a major issue in the United States. In July 2003, FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan announced a new initiative to protect Americans from counterfeit drugs that were purportedly being substituted for drugs that were "safe and effective." For example, an article in the September 22, 2003, Wall Street Journal was headlined "Fakes in the Medicine Chest." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Beyond promoting specific drugs, these expertly crafted commercial messages carry strong but unspoken themes that make prescription drug use seem like a routine part of life. First, the ads create the impression not only that can health and happiness be achieved by using the right drugs, but that drugs are necessary for health and happiness. Then the ads evoke a positive emotional connection to the drug, and finally challenge the viewer to take action." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Perhaps most importantly, it is against the law in England to advertise prescription drugs directly to consumers, and HRT is a prescription drug. Even if 35 Daily Telegraph of May 14 1998: Glowing Tribute to HRT 'magic'. the law is not enforced and there is a tacit understanding that pharmaceutical companies can break it with impunity, any newspaper should make it an absolute requirement that such articles state clearly whether or not celebrities received money for endorsing products, and if so, how much." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"All these critical properties make exenatide an important addition to the prescription drug arsenal we have on hand to fight diabetes. Another major, previously unknown attribute of exenatide and oral DPP-4 inhibitors is that incretins enhance insulin secretion in a glucose-dependent manner. Old-technology therapies like sulfonylureas promote insulin secretion in a glucose-independent fashion, which means they cause beta cells to secrete insulin regardless of what your blood sugar level is, be it 500 mg/dL or 50 mg/dL." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Compounded estrone used by alternative practitioners is the same hormone that is used in at least two prescription conventional estrogens (Ogen and Ortho-est), with the caveat that the prescription drug has fillers, binders, preservatives, and/or excipients. These are added in order for the particular product to receive a patent; a particular individual may absorb and tolerate one form better than another. Bio-identical estrone is also available, by prescription, from a compounding pharmacy." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Like almost every other victim of medication madness you will meet in this book, Emily had no idea that her prescription drug could make her crazy or push her toward doing something that would otherwise horrify her. She didn't even know it was an antidepressant. In retrospect, she remembers thinking it was just one more of the endless string of pills that her family doctor wanted her to take. No one in the family had as yet become aware of the controversy that was already brewing around Prozac in the early 1990s." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"PhRMA was successful in helping to defeat an amendment to the Medicare prescription drug bill that would have funded research to determine the comparative effectiveness and value of the drugs senior citizens are struggling to afford. A quick look at the 15 most frequently prescribed drugs for seniors in 2003 shows that, before coming up with a very expensive plan to provide access to these drugs, it would be wise to determine which drugs actually provide effective and efficient treatment for senior citizens." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Americans are responsible for almost half of the world's prescription drug sales,47 but the disparity is even greater when it comes to CNS (central nervous system) agents. In 2006, Americans—about 6 percent of the world's population—bought about two-thirds of the world's psychiatric and neurological drugs. In 2006, 66 percent of the global antidepressant market was accounted for by the United States.48 And in 2003 approximately 83 percent of the global market for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medications was accounted for by the United States, and mainly by U.S. children." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"No doubt this could be one of the reasons why ocean life is continuing to decline around the world, and it seems as if it won't be very long at all before these prescription drug pollutants start showing up in shellfish such as shrimp, crab, and lobsters, and maybe even in seaweed someday. Pharmaceutical chemicals are not regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency, so there is no enforced limit of pharmaceuticals in the drinking water." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"What all this means is that prescription drug abuse is not only a personal problem, but also an institutional one. Making and marketing drugs is what pharmaceutical companies do (we'll return to this issue at the chapter's conclusion); prescribing drugs is what physicians do; retailing them is what pharmacists do. For better or worse—and both outcomes are evident, though the latter is more frequent—each of these legal activities is tremendously profitable." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "As of 2003, more than 40% of all Americans—half of all women—take at least one prescription drug, and 17% take three or more.6 We are, it would seem, a drugged-up society." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"The Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology in 2005 reported that the combination of glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate is at least as effective as the prescription drug cele-coxib (brand name Celebrex) in treating pain caused by moderate to severe osteoarthritis of the knee. So for best results, use them together. Glucosamine/chondroitin therapy requires patience: You may have to wait anywhere from eight to twelve weeks to see results." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

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