Did You Know: 25% of Drugs you take are manufactured overseas????

[jackstraw45]

It's what the drug lobby and Bush administration don't want you to know.

They say buying drugs from Canada isn't "safe."

It's a big MYTH.

They try and make you think that drugs made overseas are "dangerous" but the exact opposite is true.

The drug lobby is LYING to America to keep drug prices HIGH for us.

Simple as that.

Many large drug companies have manufacturing facilities overseas. Sen. Kennedy wrote a bill that exposed the hypocricy of the FDA (pushed by the drug lobbyists) that "importing" drugs is dangerous.

That's how a QUARTER of them are already manufactured.

SHHHH...the drug lobby doesn't want you to know this when they tell you Canadian drugs are not "safe" by FDA standards. TOTAL BS!

It's the SAME stuff folks that probably comes from a factory in Austria or Germany.

Some reading:
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11369552&BRD=1077&PAG=740&dept_id=226965&rfi=6

http://democrats.senate.gov/demsengov-doc.cfm?a=108&b=2&c=544

[shaolinmonkey]

1. I thought this very same thing when I heard about the Flu vaccine.

We're short because of a plant closing in *England*. So British drugs are okay, just not Canadian drugs. Makes perfect sense. If you're a corporate crony.

[jackstraw45]

5. That's the work of the drug company lobby

They try and make you think that drugs made overseas are "dangerous" but the exact opposite is true.

EVERy drug company runs into sterilization problems at some point but Chiron is in big trouble because it's the flu vaccine and it's in the manufacturing stage.

But the drug lobby is LYING to America to keep drug prices HIGH for us.

Simple as that.

[onehandle]

2. Oh No! Al-Qaeda in my medicine cabinet! nt

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

3. No

100% of the drugs I take are grown in California!

[havocmom]

4. What's really frieghtening is that the USA is on the threshold of becoming

a net food importer. Now, that is a threat to us.

[shraby]

7. I injured my knee and the doctor

gave me some pain pill samples. I read the label and it was manufactured in Mexico City, Mexico.

[jackstraw45]

8. But the drug lobby and Bush administration say that getting drugs

from Canada is UNSAFE.

They've pulled the wool over the eyes of cash-strapped Americans to protect big-pharma profits.

And don't get me started on the Medicare bill....

I hope Kerry SLAMS the Chimp on health care tonight.

[BiggJawn]

6. Just like the Actos I used to take...

Why, even Steve "I was called up! Really, I *WAS*!" Buyer tells me that drugs are dangerous unless they're made in Indianapolis, or Lafayette, Or Clinton, or Terre Haute (lilly and Pfizer locations)
But my Actos was made in.........JAPAN!

"Takeda Pharmaceuticals America Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company jointly market Actos. Takeda Pharmaceuticals is a wholly owned subsidiary of Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd., a global pharmaceutical company based in Osaka, Japan.

Founded by Chobei Takeda I in 1781 as a small shop selling traditional Japanese and Chinese medicines, Takeda Chemical Industries has grown to become Japan's largest pharmaceutical company with 1999 sales of more than $7 billion. Although two-thirds of the company's sales come from sales of prescription drugs, Actos is the first diabetes drug developed by Takeda to be sold in the U.S....Lilly, headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, is also a pharmaceutical company with a worldwide reach. Honored by many people with diabetes for selling the first commercially available insulin in 1923, Lilly's total sales were more than $9 billion in 1998..."

So......I guess it's safe because it's a 16 Gigabuck "joint venture", not some economical foreign company?

[napi21]

9. This is very true, a most people don't even think about it.

I admit, I never thought about it. It really came to light for me when a friend, who had transplant sugery a few years ago, came to visit for a week. We were discussing the outragous cost of drugs, and he told me about one of his meds is only made in Ireland, another only in Germany...and so on. He takes 42 pills each day, and only 4 are made in the USA!

What I don't know is if the US drug Co's do an upcharge on the ones that that are made elsewhere.

[Kazak]

10. What drugs?

Oooohhh...that...no, that comes from Mexico...

:evilgrin:

[jackstraw45]

11. kick

:kick:

Since Bush pulled out the drug lobby myth tonight about "safety" - total BULL!