| Jul 14 |
Drug wars? Big pharmaceuticals kill and injure, too, as with Avandia, Paxil, Accutane
Take GlaxoSmithKline, a British pharmaceutical giant whose negligence with deadly drugs seems to know no limits. GSK’s latest revealed outrage concerns diabetes medication Avandia, which carries a high risk of causing heart attacks. According to a recent New York Times investigation, GSK knew of this risk for 11 years yet covered it up, continuing to peddle its defective drug even though people were dying as a result. In short, GSK knew it was killing people and did so anyway, all in the name of money. |
The term “drug wars” often refers to violent cartels which bully, bribe and slaughter in the name of illegal drug profits. But another drug war is assailing America, and no machine guns are used. Rather, it’s a war inflicted by huge pharmaceutical companies — often foreign-based — which knowingly sell deadly, defective drugs for years while reaping monstrous profits.