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John Hammell of International Advocates for Health Freedom discusses health freedom under siege; Part 2 Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I remember about six months ago, the FDA said drugs from canada were dangerous because terrorists might infiltrate those pharmaceuticals, and that is why we should ban drugs from canada. John: Well what we have to do, Mike, is go to our elected officials and say, "Look, we are going to drive you out of office because you are not taking a stand against this planned North American Union. We do not like it. We are not buying it. We will vote for your competitor. We do not care if challengers in congressional races only upset infringed incumbents 1.7 percent of the time.

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And it's all being done for your own protection, didn't you know? drugs from canada are very, very dangerous, we've been told. (I have a question: if drugs from canada started killing Americans, how would we know? So many Americans are falling over dead from prescription drugs right now that it would be hard to sort them out.) If that's not enough, Big Government USA has more solutions for you, too. Don't worry about your food choice or diet, just be sure to drink lots of milk, because the dairy industry is tight with the feds.

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We see them trying to get legislation to ban drugs from canada and attacking online pharmacies, but then also discrediting any medicinal herbs like ma huang or Ephedra. Frank: Ephedra – which maybe killed a person or two, maybe it didn't – really begs the (previous) question. Because, I believe the third- or fourth-leading cause of death in the United States today is properly prescribed drugs. In other words: Hospitals and doctors prescribing drugs, so called "ethical drugs," the way the pharmaceutical companies tell them to, are the third or fourth largest killer of patients in the US today.

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Why does the FDA enforce a drug market monopoly by insisting that Americans should not be able to buy the exact same drugs from canada or other countries? Why do Big Pharma CEOs take home tens of millions of dollars in salaries each year, even while our nation's elderly are so financially burdened by prescription drug prices that they sometimes have to choose between food and medicine? Why do consumers buy into the awkward notion that we should all over-pay for prescription drugs so that drug companies can fund the R&D to find future cures? Are they going to give away those future drugs?

Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Send samples to: Gary Buehler, RPh, Director Office of Generic Drugs US Food and Drug Administration 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD 20857-0001 BUYING MEDICINES ONLINE FROM CANADA It is illegal to import drugs from canada or any other country if they are available in the United States. That said, neither the FDA nor Customs has been enthusiastic about prosecuting grannies for purchasing blood pressure pills or breast cancer medication from outlets in other countries.

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When you have restrictions on travel, restrictions on nutritional supplements and restrictions on people buying drugs from canada, you begin to see a sharp deterioration of freedom in this country. You lose freedom and you become more of a police state. That's what we're seeing in this country today. All of that stands at odds with the fact that we live in a global economy.

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I have a question: if drugs from canada started killing Americans, how would we know? So many Americans are falling over dead from prescription drugs right now that it would be hard to sort them out.) If that's not enough, Big Government USA has more solutions for you, too. Don't worry about your food choice or diet, just be sure to drink lots of milk, because the dairy industry is tight with the feds.

Interview with Dr. Ray Strand, author of Death by Prescription and Releasing Fat Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Mike: What's your take on the situation with drugs from canada? The FDA insists that they're unsafe, yet some states are trying to allow their citizens to purchase drugs from across the border. Dr. Strand: Well, it's the same drugs as we're getting here in the United States -- unless someone is being fraudulent and substituting some scam, which is totally illegal. I've had my patients go to Mexico and Canada and pick them up. I look at them, and it's the same drugs that they're getting here. The same pharmaceutical companies are making it.

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You think the FDA is discrediting drugs from canada in order to protect your health? Get real. The FDA is simply protecting the monopoly drug market in this country. It's controlling distribution points in the U.S. in the same way that a crack dealer assassinates his street corner competition. Eliminate the competition, and you can set whatever price you want. That's why uninformed U.S. consumers pay 30,000% markup prices for drugs that can be acquired in Mexico or Canada for pennies on the dollar.

Health Roundup: Gambling with drugs, Squaretrade failures and counterfeit drugs (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

But that's not good enough for the FDA, which wants to protect the profits of drug companies by outlawing overseas drug purchases, banning drugs from canada, and discrediting online pharmacies (many of which are, indeed, completely bogus). Of course, buying drugs from your local pharmacy doesn't guarantee you're getting the real deal either, as drug wholesalers (the companies that supply local pharmacies) also trade in counterfeit products. The only way to know you're getting REAL medicine, it turns out, is to eat raw, fresh plants.

Big Pharma scare tactics: How the pharmaceutical industry influences American consumers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I wouldn't be surprised if the industry actually commissioned a terrorist attack on drugs from canada. Then it could say, "Look how unsafe drugs are from Canada! Now you have to buy them here in the United States." Prescription drugs aren't safe, no matter where you get them Prescription drugs are actually the fourth-leading cause of death in this country, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Those are numbers that come out of conventional medicine.

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Canada and other industrialized nations. This will save us at least 50 billion dollars over the next ten years and cut the price of many drugs in half. Those opposing the amendment, which includes most of the major proponents of S1082 and the Bush administration, are the ones clearly on the payroll of Big Pharma. Their excuse for not supporting it is flimsy -- that it will cause safety problems. The majority of Senators are not buying this transparent cover-up.

Big Pharma scare tactics: How the pharmaceutical industry influences American consumers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The report that the pharmaceutical lobby tried to fund a fiction novel designed to scare Americans away from buying drugs from canada doesn't surprise me. I think this industry would do anything to make more money. I think it would put people's lives at risk, and I think it has done this and will continue to do so. I think it would fabricate fictitious diseases ("disease mongering") and market those to the American public to try to get people to take more drugs that they don't need.

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Salary: $45,000 plus unlimited free drugs from canada. Public Safety Program Director In this role, you will actually work to protect the public from unsafe ingredients in foods, drugs and cosmetics. This is not really a full-time job. In fact, you do not even need to show up. No experience necessary, in anything. No education required. Starting salary is minimum wage. You must bring your own desk to work, if you want one. That is, if you actually want to work at all. How to apply Are you qualified for one or more of these prestigious positions at the FDA?

The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It Marcia Angell, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

In particular, they could buy back FDA-approved drugs from canada that had been exported there. It sounds silly to "reimport" drugs that are marketed in the United States, but even with the added transaction costs, doing so is cheaper than buying them here. But the bill required the secretary of Health and Human Services to certify that the practice would not pose any "added risk" to the public, and secretaries in both the Clinton and Bush administrations, under pressure from the industry, refused to do that.

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ABC-TV News told viewers: "The FDA has warned that getting drugs from canada is illegal and insists that it cannot guarantee the safety of those drugs." In the face of the FDA's threats, some states backed down. Some went ahead. Local governments, like the City of Springfield, Massachusetts, continued doing what they had been doing before the practice became controversial: saving several million dollars a year by filling prescriptions north of the border. Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, a Republican, ignored Washington's threats and mounted the most aggressive campaign.

Putting aside the question of whether the FDA or Health Canada is the more rigorous regulator, the fact is that the Internet has transformed drug buying, and all the FDA's efforts to scare Americans about the dangers of purchasing drugs from canada ignore the reality of the marketplace. Americans can sit at home in front of their computers and order all the latest prescription drugs—including narcotics that can be resold on the street. Some Internet sites offer electronic consultations with doctors standing by, mouse in hand. Others ship the drugs, no questions asked. Some sites are legitimate.

Scully helped craft the final version of the Medicare bill, which blocked imports of low-cost drugs from canada, a top priority of pharmaceutical companies. Also, bowing to the wishes of other industry lobbyists, the act provided billions of dollars in tax subsidies to HMOs, private insurers, and corporations to provide drug coverage. Thus, the congressional supporters of market-driven medicine were giving billions of tax dollars to private business to pretend the market system was functioning.

The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It Marcia Angell, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

By the end of 2003, officials in about a dozen states had announced their intentions to look into the possibility of importing drugs from canada for their employees and uninsured residents. The attorney general of Massachusetts wrote to the commissioner of the FDA arguing that, while he did not intend to break the law, imports were necessary to counter the "unrestrained increases" in drug prices and that, if it liked, the agency could easily put safeguards into place. Large health insurers also got into the act.

But closely related to it is the controversy over "reimportation" of drugs from canada. That is something of a misnomer, because what is usually really going on is the importation of drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that were originally exported to Canada from American and European drug companies. So it's often just a matter of transporting American-made drugs over the same border twice. If you think there's something absurd about that, there is, but it's the only way many Americans can get affordable drugs.

Importing drugs from canada is a stopgap way to deal with a problem that shouldn't be there in the first place. It makes far more sense to import Canada's system for holding down drug prices than to import the drugs. The States Fight Big Pharma The center of activity to control drug costs is shifting to the states. With the economic downturn in 2001, states found themselves in a real bind. Unlike the federal government, most states do not have the option of running deficits. They must balance their budgets.

Pharmacists oppose free trade with Canada, citing loss of U.S. jobs Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Today's argument about drugs from canada is just as absurd, but the pharmacists, the FDA, and the U.S. Big Pharma industry seemed dedicated to coming up with yet more creative scare tactics to accomplish their ultimate goal: shutting down free trade between the United States and Canada in order to protect the monopoly profits of U.S. drug companies.

The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It Marcia Angell, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

It is this law that is being invoked to stop people from obtaining cheaper drugs from canada. I will talk more about that in the next chapter. Other congressional actions target the FDA's ability to regulate the industry. The 1997 Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act, for instance, was a giant giveaway to the pharmaceutical industry. Among other things, it required the agency to lower its standards for approving drugs (sometimes accepting just one clinical trial instead of two, for example). But perhaps most important is what Congress has not done.

Pharmacists oppose free trade with Canada, citing loss of U.S. jobs Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The way to accomplish that is to oppose free trade and turn ordinary, everyday citizens who buy drugs from canada into felons. It's classic "Pat Buchanan" protectionism. It's a smart lobbying tactic, though. If there's anything that moves Americans to action, it's the idea that "jobs will be lost." Candle makers used the same argument to discredit pane glass window manufacturers hundreds of years ago. They realized that windows would let in light, and if homes had light, they wouldn't need as many candles.

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Canada alone, but with the same deal-breaking caveat as the 2000 legislation: The secretary of Health and Human Services would have to agree that the strategy poses no risk to consumers, an invitation HHS head Tommy Thompson has already once declined. Investor's Business Daily headlined its report on the new legislation, "Why Drug Firms Don't Worry over Cheap Canadian Resales." With new versions of reimportation on the table, the fight in Congress isn't over yet.

The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It Marcia Angell, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Canada. In a 2003 editorial, The Washington Post summed up the situation very well. It warned, "Anyone arguing the drug companies' case, no matter how neutral his or her academic or think tank position may seem, should be questioned carefully with regard to sources of income."25 Too often reporters don't do that. Two reporters for a major newspaper told me that one reason they don't ask is that asking makes it harder to write their stories. If they find out their sources have conflicts of interest, their editors may require them to search for new sources.

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