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09/04/2018 / By Edsel Cook

What our poop is telling researchers: Wastewater studied to learn if drug manufacturers are a major source for contamination of waterways

You have probably heard about researchers investigating sewer water to find out all sorts of things about the health and drug habits of the people in that town or municipality. But it appears that a lot of the pharmaceutical drugs found in wastewater are directly coming from the drug manufacturers themselves, an article on Inside […]

04/09/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Harvard analysis determines: Doctors who prescribe opioids receive HUGE kickbacks from pharma corporations

The opioid epidemic seems to be on everyone’s minds these days, with the Trump administration having recently declared it to be a major “public health emergency,” and one supposedly caused by “drug traffickers” – for which President Trump himself wants to see harsher penalties against “dealers.” But a recent study out of Harvard University reveals […]

10/12/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

New Jersey lawsuit accuses Big Pharma of “nothing short of EVIL”

A new lawsuit that accuses a pharmaceutical company of conduct that is “nothing short of evil” echoes the sentiment of many people who have suffered or lost loved ones due to the unsavory practices of Big Pharma. Big Pharma’s list of wrongdoings is rather lengthy, but the offense that is at the heart of the […]

08/22/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Big Pharma is actively blocking efforts to halt the opioid epidemic… because there’s profit in POISON

Robin Feldman, a professor in pharmaceutical law at University of California, testified in September 2016 before the House of Representatives judiciary subcommittee about the state of the opioid addiction in the United States, saying that even though “open and vigorous competition is the backbone of U.S. markets…we are not seeing that in the market for […]

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