“Pay-to-Play” Meetings Shed Light on FDA’s Role in Prescription Abuse Epidemic

Originally published by Alliance for Natural Health USA

October 22, 2013

Drug companies paid up to $25,000 to influence FDA policy—the latest in a decades-long FDA/Big Pharma scandal. 

What class of drugs:

• causes more deaths a year than heroin and cocaine combined;
• accounts for two-thirds of drug overdose fatalities;
• killed 16,000 Americans in 2010 alone;
• adds $72.5 billion a year to the cost of US healthcare from misuse; and
• according to the CDC, has directly contributed to a sharp rise in our country’s suicide rate?

 
We’ll give you a hint: they’re FDA-approved.

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