Drugs- making your own is the new cool.
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Subject: (NYT) Drugs- making your own is the new cool.
Date: Apr 1, 2010 8:29 AM
While winding my way through the
Corrupticut meat-grinder for crimes
I solved, rather than committed, I
discovered that there is no small
number of people/young people who
were enthralled with my history
as a BigPharma Chemist. (We/I liked
to exchange stories to get a bead
on what percentage of people are
falsely incarcerated. The answer
is most of them, according to the
prisons/psych-klink staff, themselves;
94% of it is about drugs.)
They wanted to know how to make
this drug or that drug and what drugs
did I take and what drugs would I
concoct if I could - as if I was
in agreement with their mindset that
there's nothing else going on in the
world besides the New Cool Drug.
Additionally, many young people who
are not yet incarcerated (personal
experience, once again) are exchanging
Rx drugs, presumably from their
own parents' medicine cabinet, or
their friends' parents medicine cabinet,
OR, the person they're getting psych
drugs from is on "Disability" for
"Mental Illness" and who then sell
their psych drugs on the streets for
food and gas money and the like.
A lot of these folks who sell their
Rx drugs and who are in the various
klinks for addiction (not crime), are
post-DCF-kidnappees, looking for a new
high (self-medicating):
http://www.actionlyme.org/DCF_GRADUATARDS_SPEAK.htm
"The drugs made me dumber."
"The foster parents write down stuff
about us, so that we end up having
to take more and more drugs."
(It *pays* more, when you're a foster
"carer" for a "Special-Needs" kid, hint,
hint.)
What's driving it all is the "cool"
aspect of it - the Mystical and the
Magical of DRUGS.
This is the result, of course, of
the cultural acceptance of the
Doctrine of Biologic Psychiatry.
Test that ^^ dogma by running it in
the reverse and what you have is the
scientific reality, or the Truth...
which was the real reason I was falsely
criminally charged. All psychotropics
are brain damaging and CAUSE the exact
same "disorder" the drugs claim to
"treat."
http://www.actionlyme.org/BRAINDAMAGE.htm
You know for sure now because Pfizer
refuses to say what the GABA analog/agonist
Neurontin really is/does to defend
themselves in the current Pfizer/Kaiser
False Claims Act case.
Here it is again, folks:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=9555021[uid]&cmd=DetailsSearch&log$=details
"The degradants of phenothiazines
damage the GABA transporter."
(It's "proprietary," normally, what damage
the drug degrandants, do. Shhh!!)
It's excellent stuff, tho.
This is the actual war America is
fighting: Against the lies of psychiatry
and the pimps they ho for.
Whoever tests their brainscramble, well,
will end up in one of their "institutions"
labeled a terrorist.
There ya have it.
Now we're faced with the problem of
illegal Rx psychotropics traffic and
How to Undo the New Cool...
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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April 1, 2010
Op-Ed Contributors
Are You Buying Illegal Drugs?
By KATHERINE EBAN and J. AARON GRAHAM
LAST month, thieves cut through the roof of an Eli Lilly warehouse in
Enfield, Conn., shimmied down a rope, disabled the alarms and made off
with $75 million worth of psychiatric drugs, including the
antidepressants Prozac and Cymbalta and the antipsychotic Zyprexa. It
is thought to have been the largest pharmaceutical theft in history.
News reports expressed some puzzlement over the crime. Why would
burglars go after medicines rather than diamonds or art? And when did
pharmaceutical thieves graduate from Oxycontin stickups to the big
time?
The answers lie in our haphazardly regulated pharmaceutical supply
chain and the dangerous gray market that intersects it. As soon as
medicines leave manufacturers’ loading docks, they enter a market
teeming with middlemen, many legitimate but some not. The drugs may
move through a dozen hands, through small secondary wholesalers and
repackagers. With so many middlemen involved, thieves can easily
unload stolen drugs, which may be resold to pharmacies and hospitals
and dispensed to you and me.
If the drugs are real, why should we care? Because pharmaceuticals
need to be stored properly — generally in dry air at a steady
temperature. Thieves — and the secondary wholesalers who buy from them
— don’t mind keeping their products in hot, humid conditions, which
can degrade medicines or even alter their chemical composition.
Last June, after 129,000 vials of Novo Nordisk’s long-acting insulin
were stolen from a parked truck in North Carolina, the Food and Drug
Administration warned diabetes patients not to take drugs with the
stolen lot numbers. But it was too late. The vials turned up in a
Texas medical center. Because the insulin had not been refrigerated,
patients who used it developed unsafe blood-sugar levels. The
authorities have recovered only 2 percent of the missing vials.
Vials of stolen or diverted drugs can also wind up in the hands of
counterfeiters, who may relabel them or even replace their contents
with cheaper ingredients. Such counterfeits also find their way into
the legitimate supply. In 2002, Timothy Fagan, a 16-year-old on Long
Island, experienced painful spasms after getting a diverted dose of
Epogen to treat his anemia after a liver transplant. The drug had been
relabeled, stored in the back of a strip club and ultimately resold to
a national wholesaler and dispensed by a pharmacy.
In the wake of the Connecticut theft, Eli Lilly tried to reassure
consumers by asserting that the American drug distribution system is
“tightly controlled and monitored, making it extremely difficult for
stolen product to make it to patients through legitimate channels.”
Yet common sense tells us that you don’t steal a big volume of
anything unless you know you can resell it.
Pharmaceuticals account for only 5 percent of all cargo thefts,
according to FreightWatch International, a freight security company.
This is far less than electronics, the most-stolen kind of cargo,
which account for almost a fourth. But drugs are in first place in the
category of value per incident. Last year, while the average
electronics theft amounted to $814,000, the average pharmaceutical
theft was worth $4 million. Since 2006, the number of drug thefts has
quadrupled.
Consumers could be protected from this. Track-and-trace technology can
put a unique code on each bottle, even each pill produced.
Unfortunately, Eli Lilly’s psychiatric drugs left that Connecticut
warehouse with neither. Drug companies are apparently reluctant to pay
the nominal cost of tagging pills and bottles (only about 25 cents a
bottle, after an initial investment of $1 million to $2 million).
Unlike consumers, they are protected from theft by insurance. The
F.D.A. should require that drug makers tag every bottle.
Without track-and-trace technology the only way a manufacturer can
retrieve stolen drugs is to recall all the packages in the affected
lot number, but that may include thousands when only a few hundred
have been stolen. Manufacturers are understandably reluctant to issue
such large, costly recalls.
With track-and-trace technology, on the other hand, it is easy to find
the packages that are safely in the possession of legitimate
wholesalers, hospitals and drugstores. A limited recall is therefore
easier. With an Internet connection and an electronic reader,
institutions that are licensed to buy drugs would be able to cross-
check inventory against a central database to find out if drugs on
their shelves had been stolen. And if stolen drugs were that easy to
detect, the market for them would quickly shrink.
Katherine Eban is the author of “Dangerous Doses: A True Story of
Cops, Counterfeiters and the Contamination of America’s Drug Supply.”
J. Aaron Graham, a former agent for the Food and Drug Administration’s
Office of Criminal Investigations, was the chief security officer for
Purdue Pharma from 2002 to 2008.
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