Legal Medical Drugs Apparently Much More Profitable Than 'Street Drugs' - (according to raw data from The Encyclopedia of Medical Breakthroughs (2004))

From: Leonardo Been (plato_world_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/05/05 

Date: 5 Feb 2005 12:47:39 -0800

Legal Medical Drugs Apparently Much More Profitable Than 'Street
Drugs'
     - (according to raw data from The Encyclopedia of Medical
        Breakthroughs (2004))

                                                      5 February 2005

While this is interesting data about one aspect of current medical
 "ethics" in general, and in the USA in particular, and about the
 current'fight between health and medicine,'

     some of the drugs mentioned can be highly dangerous to your
     health, as well as severely impair your mental health, your
     intelligence, your awareness and your ability to be happy,

     and have been largely developed out of intensely Criminal neglect
     of knowledge, and Criminal breach of confidence,

           that the licensed medical doctor feels obliged to subscribe
           to, feels demanded by his peers or by his "professors of
           medicine," to follow. *(1)(2)(3)

The data presented below, seems to contradict any of the "benevolent
 and caring ethics"

     that the professional, licensed doctors would like themselves and
     their patients to think of

     as being "the driving force behind medicine,"

           that they want the public and the media to assume is
           guiding their actions,

           that they want the public and the media to trust "is behind
           their decisions, their research and their patient-care."

"It is all for your best" - is the slogan which the 'patient' must be
 subdued by.

     Some medical, licensed doctors I count as my best friends, as
     the truly caring, loving and very intelligent persons they are.

     Others on the other hand, I found to be exceedingly evil and
     outright destructive - to anyone's health, and to other medical
     doctors as well. *(4)

The following are examples of pricing in-equalities
(prices given in USD): (Oct 2003)

° Augmentin® (12 count; 500 mg) sells in the U.S. for $52.62
.......................................... compared to $9.89 in Europe

° Cipro® (20 count; 500 mg) sells in the U.S. for $114.84
...................................... compared to $21.00 in Europe

° Claritin® (20 count; 10 mg) sells in the U.S. for $63.88
........................................ compared to $6.10 in Europe

° Coumadin® (25 count; 5 mg) sells in the U.S. for $42.62
....................................... compared to $4.71 in Europe

° Glucophage® (50 count; 850 mg) sells in the U.S. for $74.32
........................................... compared to $4.40 in Eu.

° Paxil® (28 count; 30 mg) sells in the U.S. for $83.36
.................................... compared to $48.36 in Europe

° Pravachol® (28 count; 10 mg) sells in the U.S. for $85.62
........................................ compared to $27.00 in Europe

° Premarin® (28 count; 0.6 mg) sells in the U.S. for $28.32
......................................... compared to $4.38 in Europe

° Prilosec® (20 count; 20 mg) sells in the U.S. for $86.32
....................................... compared to $10.24 in Europe

° Prozac® (14 count; 20 mg) sells in the U.S. for $56.62
..................................... compared to $14.80 in Europe

° Synthroid® (50 count; 100 mcg) sells in the U.S. for $23.32
........................................... compared to $3.14 in Eu.

° Zocor® (28 count; 20 mg) sells in the U.S. for $118.68
..................................... compared to $48.36 in Europe

° Zoloft® (100 count; 50 mg) sells in the U.S. for $237.84
....................................... compared to $69.92 in Europe

The actual cost to the pharmaceutical companies of the ingredients
 that comprise the drugs, sheds further light on the government-
 approved price gouging
 (prices given in USD for 100 count tablets/capsules):

. Celebrex® 100 mg retail: $130.27; Cost of generic ingredients: $0.60
     Markup: 21712 %
. Claritin® 10 mg retail: $215.17; Cost of generic ingredients: $0.71
     Markup: 30306 %

. Lipitor® 20 mg retail: $272.37; Cost of generic ingredients: $5.80
     Markup: 4696 %
. Paxil® 20 mg retail: $220.27; Cost of generic ingredients: $7.60
     Markup: 2898 %

. Prevacid® 30 mg retail: $344.77; Cost of generic ingredients: $1.01
     Markup: 43136 %

. Prilosec® 20 mg retail: $360.97; Cost of generic ingredients: $0.52
     Markup: 69417 %

. Prozac® 20 mg retail: $247.47; Cost of generic ingredients: $0.11
     Markup: 224973 %
. Xanax® 1 mg retail: $136.79; Cost generic ingredients: $0.024
     Markup: 569958 %

. Zithromax® 600mg retail: $1,482.19; Cost generic ingredients: $18.78
     Markup: 7892 %

. Zocor® 40 mg retail: $350.27; Cost of generic ingredients: $8.63
     Markup: 4059 %
. Zoloft® 50 mg retail: $206.87; Cost of generic ingredients: $1.75
     Markup: 11821 %

Source: Encyclopedia of Medical Breakthroughs, 2004 - (page 286).
        Medical Research Associates, LLC. WA, USA

I repeat:

While this is interesting data about one aspect of current, licensed
 medical "ethics" in general, and of that in the USA in particular,

     some of the drugs mentioned can be highly dangerous to your
     health, as well as severely impair your mental health, your
     intelligence, your awareness and your ability to be happy,

     and have been largely developed out of the intensely Criminal
     neglect of knowledge, and the Criminal breach of confidence,

           that the licensed medical doctor feels obliged to subscribe
           to and feels commanded by his peers or his "professors of
           medicine," to follow and practice

                "lest he loose his license." *(1)(2)(3)

LtB

_________
Footnotes:

(1) 'What IS Depression or Lethargy' {HRI 20041107-V2.2}
       (7 November 2004 - Version 2.2 on 14 Dec 2004)
http://www.googlegroups.com/group/sci.med/msg/e3f79cb2f78d2145?fwc=1

(2) 'Current Understanding of Mental Illness - Consequences'
       (9 Dec 2002)
http://www.googlegroups.com/group/sci.psychology.psychotherapy/msg/56d421daafd7bd8c?output=gplain

(3) 'Normal Life Disaster From Not Understanding A Criminal Mind
      (A True Story)' {HRI 20040927-V2.7}
       (27 Sept 2004 - Version 2.7 on 17 Oct 2004)
http://www.googlegroups.com/group/sci.med/msg/893fea2afc715539

(4) ...... 'The Mask Of Sanity - the acclaimed study of the
            psychopathic personality'
              By Hervey Cleckley, Medical College of Georgia, USA.
             (St. Louis, MO - USA: Mosby Press Medical Library, 1982)
             (New York: New American Library, ISBN 0-452-25341-1)

      From the back cover of the book:

           'Arrogant, shameless, immoral, impulsive, antisocial,
            superficial, alert, self-assured, boastful, callous,
            remorseless, charming, irresponsible:'

                'This is the poisonous mix of traits, that make up the
                 psychopathic personality. [...]'

                'Psychopaths also sit in corporate boardrooms [as
                 directors of companies or institutions,] or function
                 as scientists or physicians [medical doctors,] or in
                 any number of respectable capacities [holding
                 respected jobs or positions].'

                'They are all legally competent. [In the legal sense,
                 they are not insane, because they can talk and
                 think as brilliantly as a lawyer, to achieve their
                 purposes.]'

                'None of them "hears voices" or displays any
                 psychosis [that a psychiatrist could easily
                 recognize or could recognize at all, as these can not
                 and also do not want to define psychosis correctly].'

                'But they [psychopathic personalities] are all headed
                 for [causing others] big trouble, in a life-long
                 string of [causing] disasters [for others], that
                 could run the gamut [range, the whole spectrum]:

                       From [causing] financial ruin, to murder.'

                'Psychiatrists know neither the cause nor the cure of
                 this disorder [and they can not and do not want to
                 define 'disorder' either, and they have been working
                 and will continue to work very hard to hide the
                 cause of any 'disorder,'] which evades [their]
                 established definitions of either sanity or insanity;

                      [So, I have defined all these terms, for you,
                       in the Human Rights Issues {the HRI's}, as none
                       indeed existed. So it is for the first time in
                       history, that correct definitions exist and
                       have been published.]'

                'indeed, psychiatrists themselves

                      [and any persons who try to help and to
                       understand Criminal Minds - any people who
                       try to help them]

                 are at times as helplessly manipulated by the
                 psychopath, as are the psychopath's other victims.'

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