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The Deadly Dozen Drugs Used To Treat Arthritis Pain

All drugs are toxic, and all toxins (and drugs) generally give a stimulation at first use, and at low dosage.

When a drug is used in a higher dose, or on a repeated basis, the sequence of effects is always the same -- faster or slower depending on the drug.  After the initial apparent increase in energy and awareness, drugs start causing loss of energy and awareness. The final consequence for any toxic substance is death. 

Again to say, one substance, such as coffee, causes an increase in awareness and energy over a fairly wide range of dosage.  It takes a large consumption of coffee to reach the stage where it decreases awareness and brings on death.

Another toxic substance, such as arsenic, causes in initial increase in energy, to, but a slightly larger dose brings pain relief and then death.  Yet, a very gradual, and lengthy regular increase in consumption of arsenic allows a person to remain alive at large doses -- doses that would kill if taken suddenly.

The number one injectable drug in hospitals for managing pain is morphine, a direct extract from opium. It was first used 4000 BC in Samaria. So in 6000 years we haven't made a whole lot of progress. (source)

So, different drugs, different toxins, cause different effects, and at different speeds and doses.

What is common to all drugs is the sequence -- some increase in energy, then tiredness, then death.

Drugs especially designed to handle the pain of arthritis are certainly not the most toxic of all drugs, but they are not mild either.  There is this web site which presents accurate information on many pain drugs.  The FDA is increasingly bowing to the criticisms of consumers by making their drug evaluation information more easily available.  CLICK HERE for a very convenient FDA Web Page (on this web) which explains their role.  By clicking on the "source" link on that page you can go to the actual FDA page where you can enter in the name of any drug they have data on, and get the official data.

Drugs are often used in the Western world to treat the pain of arthritis, they all have warnings and adverse side effects.  Celebrex, Vioxx, Bextra, Arava, Pennsaid, Mobic, Enbrel, Remicade, Imuran, Humira, Prexige, Rituximab and others.  (Pause your mouse over these drugs to read the warning.)  Generally the drugs that are newest have not shown many adverse side effects.    But, after any of these have been on the market for a few years, the deaths and serious warnings start to accumulate. News like in the box below is common as experience grows and warnings must be "updated.".

The top selling pain drug for arthritis in the US is Celebrex with more than $2 billion in sales.  The same Company makes Vioxx, also with $2 billion in annual sales!  These are the only arthritic pain killers in the top 10 for annual sales of prescription drugs.  Foreign sales would be more.  Celebrex is known to cause death and Vioxx has the distinction of having more spontaneous adverse effects than any other drug -- per the FDA.

Several of these drugs cost $3 per pill and despite their deadly side-effects and only-fair results, the fact that "insurance" pays means that people demand these drugs -- believing that if they are new, they must be good, or believing the drug company hype.  Non-drug alternatives would generally never be covered by insurance so that an herbal remedy that might cost $2.00 per day, does a good job and is very safe seems out of reach.  After all the "bad" stuff is free and the good stuff is not covered by insurance!

People clamor for "more" health insurance and seldom realize that they will then get more free bad stuff.  Those who want the good stuff are going to have to cut the umbilical cord to "mother government."

It is hard to believe it, but there are people planning new drugs to cost $1,000 per month, or more.  Here is an alleged secretly recorded conversation in a planning room for one of the large drug companies:

Doctor John Researcher, welcome to what we call the "inner circle" in Lilly.  We have tested your loyalty to the Company and know that we can now give you the supreme level of secret information.  Less than 100 people know the information you are about to learn.

Our Company has to design a new drug that can be administered by INFUSION in the doctor's office.  Drugs delivered by "infusion" are covered by Medicare and we can make BILLIONS.  If the drug is administered by injection, it is not covered.  If it is in the form of a tablet or capsule -- forget it. 

It makes no difference what this new drug will sell for -- the more the better. We have to be able to claim it is "better" and everyone will write letters to their congressmen to get the government to approve it for coverage.

The biggest market potential we have is in the area of mental health.  Since mental diseases are fabrications in any event, you do not even have to worry about what disease you want the new drug to treat.  The new disease will be created to match the characteristics of the new drug you will create.

The best drug to invent will be one that manages, of course, not cures some condition.

We have the perfect political position.  We give many millions of dollars to elect Republicans -- so they help us.  The Democrats want votes from people who want free "medicines" and the people always want the newest and most expensive drug -- particularly when it is free.

The fact that none of these drugs actually SOLVE a health problem, but only manage it means that we have an assured business for centuries ahead.  

We see drugs like this with a direct manufacturing cost of as little as $10 per dose, but we have accounting procedures which load that "cost" with the research costs, the administrative costs and even the secret executive pension plans.  At the end of these careful accounting techniques, it looks like it costs $1,200 for one dose -- so the retail price, at $2,000 per dose, once per month, with doctor's fees added, will make us all filthy rich!

If we really do well, the adverse side effects will not show up for at least three years, the lawyers we work with, and "leak" the damaging documents to will make $10 billion in law suits, we'll go bankrupt, the hidden pensions will pay us off, and we already have a "new" company waiting to hire us.

It's a good deal all around!

You think the above is some sort of exaggeration?

Well, consider the next "story" which, I tell you, is true -- indeed.

This drug company, let's call it "Johnson & Johnson" decides that it will get a new drug patented and approved by the FDA for pain relief.  They know that this drug is addictive and causes seizures, but they hide those results and get the patent and the FDA approval.

Remember that I ALLEGE this to be true -- I cannot prove it!

Then they carefully market this new approved drug through channels so that you would never know that Johnson & Johnson has anything to do with it. The web site doesn't mention Johnson & Johnson unless you go to the end of a long file, in the tiny print.

In due course, just as they knew would happen, the FDA issues a warning letter -- saying this drug is addictive and tells doctors that it can only be prescribed in those cases where the patient has no chance of becoming addicted.

Sales in the US plummet.

No problem!  In the mean time, through other channels, using different business names, they start selling Ultram in very large quantities into certain foreign countries -- the buyers have agreed that they will NOT sell it in the country that imports the stuff, since that would cause the equivalent of the FDA there to outlaw it.

If you go to the official Johnson & Johnson web site HERE, you will look in vain for Ultram!  It is there, somewhere, but certainly not easy to find.

If you do find it on the official web site, you will probably find a disclaimer:

ULTRAM® - Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc.

In order for you to get the most complete and current information on the brand you have selected, we invite you to visit the brand Web sites listed below. By clicking on a link you will leave the Johnson & Johnson Corporate site, jnj.com, and be directed to one of our operating company Web sites with all the information you need on the product you chose.  (source)

That link takes you to:

www.ultram.com - Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc.

Information, official, about Ultram, from Ortho-McNeil is on THIS PAGE on this web site.

The addictive Ultram slides silently into Germany, for instance, to a few large companies that sell ONLY on the internet.  They specialize in selling drugs like this without any prescription required, to consumers in the United States who know about this "legal" method of buying prescription drugs, without a prescription, as long as they are purchased for personal use.

Johnson & Johnson is selling, legally, to a recognized firm in Germany, and that firm is selling, legally, to private US consumers.  These private US consumers receive their packages in guaranteed "un marked" packages.

They have even found a way to ship into a US address (the shipping documents show the German origin). From this US address, probably in Texas, a "re-distribution company simply takes the small packages out of the big package, puts US postage on them, and sends them on to the US person.  He has his drugs "from a foreign source" and the Texas company is NOT selling them to the US Person.

Yet another company, with a US address, and a credit-card processing service, receives the orders for this "foreign-source drug," and processes the credit card. This other US company, probably in New Jersey, does NOT sell any drugs to anyone.

They simply have a contract to process credit card orders FOR the company in Germany.  Depending on the tax situation, the money is sent somewhere that escapes taxes from any country, and the German company SELLS the drugs to the US Consumer, even putting them in a package individually addressed to that US consumer, and then ships them off in the large package ("to save shipping costs") to the Texas firm that "re-distributes" them.

I've presented the practical way this works.  There are differences of opinion on the legality of parts of this, but the bottom line is that it is up to the FDA to do something to stop it, and they are not about to:

"Everything coming into this country (via mail) is in violation," said a senior FDA official, asking to remain anonymous, about the importation of medications from abroad.

But in the meanwhile, the FDA has no intention of busting the seniors using the service, the official told United Press International.(source)

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Nevertheless, mail-order for prescription [imported] drugs has increased sixfold, from about $4.5 billion in 1992 to about $27.5 billion in 2001.  (source)

Click here to read a selection of articles on the import of prescription drugs.

The US consumer may have already collected some money from a group of "other" US people, each of whom is waiting for "HIS" delivery of this addictive and deadly drug.  He paid in currency, and there is no receipt. This addictive, deadly drug is "dropped off" at the proper address for this "other" US person -- who has obtained his addictive and deadly drug, paying in currency to someone who has no business address -- you could call him a "street drug pusher" if you wanted to be honest about this.

In the mean time Johnson & Johnson has found a crooked way to hide the sale of Ultram to the Germany buyer so that this whole soup never sees the light of day!

I allege that not only Johnson & Johnson does this, but so do virtually all the other drug companies.  They deliberately create an addictive drug to sell to US drug addicts through this legal loop hole. The addictive drug is called "OK" because it is not a street drug, but is an "artificial" opiate!

It happens.  Is Johnson & Johnson guilty of illegal drug pushing?  Of course not!  Are thousands of people in the US getting this harmful and addictive drug anyway?  You bet they are!

You don't believe it?  CLICK HERE to read about Ultram, and to see the exact web offer to sell you Ultram without a prescription!

Name Of Drug	Image	Warning	Approximate Discounted Cost Per Day, Typical Dosage
Celebrex		Death	Celebrex 200mg (50 Capsules)  $209.99 Celebrex 200mg (100 Capsules) $353.88 $3.54 per day
Vioxx		Heart Attack	Vioxx Vioxx 12.5mg (50 Tablets) $205.00   Vioxx 25mg (100 Tablets) $373.00   Vioxx 25mg (50 Capsules) $219.99   $3.58 per day
Enbrel	By Injection	Death	$1,000 Per Month
Remicade	By Injection	Death	The cost of each infusion of Remicade is $1,400. Six Per Year Required
Bextra	Tablets	Bleeding Stomach Ulcers	$900 Per Year
Arava		Liver Failure	$100 Per Tablet -- 100 mg
Imuran	50 mg	CANCER	$1.00 Per Tablet
Humira	By Injection	CANCER	$1,400 per month, injections every two weeks
Prexige			New Product
Rituximab	By Infusion		New Product -- For Cancer Treatment
Naproxen			Naproxen is the non-prescription drug, while Naproxyn is the prescription drug form of this pain killer
Naproxyn
Ultram		Seizures & Addictive	$234 for 90 50 mg Tablets Up to 200 mg per day
Lortab
Vicodin
Lorcet
Norco
Zydone
Vicoprofen
Darvon
Talwin
Percodan
Fiorinal
Nubain
Imitrex
Sinoral
Flamic
Flextra-DS
Bupre- norphine
Fioricet
CODEINE
FENTANYL
Dilaudid
Hydro- codone
Demerol
Lodine -- XL
OxyContin		Death

NSAIDs		More than 7,000 Deaths	Many Brands -- These Have Proven So Dangerous that they have been replaced by the NSAIDs which are also Cox Inhibitors, and these then replaced by those NSAIDs with Cox-2 Inhibitors
Mobic		Stomach Bleeding & Ulcers	$1.98 per pill, wholesale "20% less than Celebrex"
Motrin
Excedrin
Aspirin
Tynelol
Aceta- minophen
Nurofen
IBU- PROPHEN
Trivestin		Placebo Effect Only A Commercial Fraud	56 Capsules for $42.00
Pennsaid	Lotion MSM (DMSO) Combined With NSAID		Not Yet Approved In The US -- Probably Soon

These drugs are often "free" because of the health care insurance -- some pay, some don't.  Click here for one article on this.  Even when "someone else" pays, there is a cost to the economy -- very expensive drugs being consumed by people who don't have to, personally, pay -- such behavior runs into health coverage bankruptcy -- exactly where we are headed.

Most of these drugs are called "Cox-2 Inhibitors." For a complete explanation of that term, CLICK HERE.

Deadly Dozen Drugs

I have many, many pages on EACH of these drugs, including typical costs of use, per day. Even piece of data about these drugs includes references to the sources for that information.  There is web on the planet with more complete information on these deadly dozen.  Click here for a convenient FDA page where you can learn how to do your own research on any drug where the FDA has examined it.

I, Karl Loren have mounted a campaign to expose the drug companies that produce harmful drugs at obscene profits.

"I accuse drug companies of preferring profits over prevention;  success over saving lives; money over morality; cunning over cure!"  (Source)
 

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win."

FDA Source For Information About Drugs

Who Pays For Celebrex?  Who Pays For Insurance?

Unnecessary Prescribing of NSAIDs and the Management of NSAID-Related Gastropathy in Medical Practice

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