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Date Posted: 17:59:15 05/03/08 Sat
Author: Obtuse Word
Author Host/IP: adsl-69-106-178-96.dsl.frs2ca.pacbell.net / 69.106.178.96
Subject: Happiness Comes in Pill Form

Big Pharma Sells Happiness to America

Americans are now buying their happiness in pill form. Big Pharma is recklessly pushing anti-depression drugs onto the American public. The pharmaceutical industry has been financially influencing members of the government and using misleading advertising campaigns in order to get their psychiatric drugs approved for public consumption without proper clinical trials.

Big Pharma has infiltrated the FDA and the NIMH, two government entities, in order to get their psychiatric drugs approved for public consumption quickly with minimal barriers. In 55 percent of the FDA advisory meetings on drug approvals, half or more of the FDA advisers had financial connections to the interested drug company, while in 92 percent of these advisory meetings, at least one FDA adviser had a financial conflict of interest according to USA Today in 2000. Almost every FDA meeting on drug approvals have been tainted by Big Pharma�s money.

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http://obtuseword.blogspot.com/2008/05/big-pharma-sells-happiness-to-america.html

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