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$200 Million Taxpayer Dollars Spent on Drugs That Have Never Been Approved by the FDA

By Mike Adams, November 26, 2008 | Key concepts: Unapproved drugs, Prescription drugs and FDA

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U.S. taxpayers are shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars for pharmaceuticals that have never even been reviewed (or approved) by the FDA. Millions of Americans are taking the drugs, and nobody really knows whether they are safe.

More importantly, the widespread prescription of such drugs -- 72 million prescriptions a year in the U.S. -- prove that drugs do not have to be approved by the FDA to be prescribed by doctors and sold by pharmacies in the U.S.

Thus, the FDA's campaign of intimidation against supplement companies, which is based on accusing them of selling "unapproved drugs" is entirely without merit. As it turns out, 72 million prescriptions each year are written for "unapproved drugs" and the FDA does absolutely nothing about it.

Where are the FDA's raids against pharmacies that sell these unapproved drugs? They don't exist. This proves the FDA is highly selective in enforcing its stated regulations, and as NaturalNews readers well know, the FDA chooses to enforce them solely against nutritional supplement companies, not pharmaceutical companies.

In other words, Big Pharma doesn't have to play by the rules in the first place. The whole FDA system of authority is nothing more than a diversion -- a clever magician's trick to keep the audience distracted while they pull a fast one with the other hand.

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$200 Million Taxpayer Dollars Spent on Drugs That Have Never Been Approved by the FDA


From Newsnet5.com: The AP analysis found that Medicaid paid nearly $198 million from 2004 to 2007 for more than 100 unapproved drugs, mostly for common conditions such as colds and pain. Data for 2008 were not available but unapproved drugs still are being sold. The AP checked the medications against FDA databases, using agency guidelines to determine if they were unapproved. The FDA says there may be thousands of such drugs on the market.... more

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