The opioid addiction crisis caused nearly 1 million to be absent from the workforce in 2015, a new study says. The American Action Forum, a right-leaning think tank, released a study on Tuesday that revealed 919,400 people between the ages of 25 to 54 were not in the labor force due to opioid use. Additionally, […]
Big Pharma’s War on Our Children: 1 Million Kids Under Age 6 on PSYCHIATRIC Drugs…
In the United States, there are one million children under the age of six on psychiatric drugs. This number is particularly disturbing, considering the horrifying side effects and ineffectiveness of a good number of these types of harmful drugs. One in six Americans overall regularly take some type of medication in this category. However, children […]
Fraud, Exploitation, & Collusion: America’s Pharmaceutical Industry…
The rot within manifested by the pharmaceutical industry almost defies description. The theme this week is The Rot Within. America’s Pharmaceutical industry takes pride of place in this week’s theme of The Rot Within, as the industry has raised fraud, exploitation and collusion to systemic perfection. What other industry can routinely kill hundreds of thousands […]
Trump’s Drug Czar Nominee Withdraws After Exposé…
Republican Pennsylvania Rep. Tom Marino withdrew his name from consideration as drug czar Tuesday following a report that revealed he was involved with legislation that benefited drug distributors. “Rep.Tom Marino has informed me that he is withdrawing his name from consideration as drug czar,” President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday about his pick for head of […]
The Drug Industry’s Triumph Over the DEA…
In April 2016, at the height of the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history, Congress effectively stripped the Drug Enforcement Administration of its most potent weapon against large drug companies suspected of spilling prescription narcotics onto the nation’s streets. By then, the opioid war had claimed 200,000 lives, more than three times the number of […]
How the DEA’s Efforts to Crack Down on the Opioid Epidemic Were Derailed (VIDEO)……
Why Are Drug Prices Going Up? Democratic Power Players Help Pharmaceutical Industry in Connecticut Battle…
Wide majorities of voters want public officials to reduce American medicine prices, which are the highest in the world and have become a key driver of skyrocketing healthcare costs. And yet as politicians including Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have continued to call for a crackdown, corporate power players have successfully blocked even minimal reforms […]