“The pharma industry loses tens of billions in worldwide sales each year when patients don’t fill, or refill, their prescriptions,” Rebecca Robbins reports for STAT. So companies are now investing in smart pills that alert prescribers when doses are missed, providing gift cards to thank patients for compliance and even lobbying the government for permission to pay pharmacists to encourage patients to take their pills.
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Haha that is so pathetic… gift cards for compliance with taking your drugs and paying psychiatrists to make clients take them. As for the tracking pills, that’s just scary…
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How to get off psychiatric drugs http://www.google.com/search?q=How+to+get+off+psychiatric+drugs
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“The companies are investing in smart pills that will send alerts when they haven’t been swallowed at the prescribed time.”
Thats backwards,
The pill has a microchip and a micro battery, the acid for the micro battery is stomach acid itself that turns it on to transmit its “pill taken” signal.
Drop it in some lemon juice or vinegar to simulate stomach acid, put it near the receiver and collect your gift cards. It may be helpful to warm the liquid to near 98.6
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“’We’re not pushing pills here, we’re pushing adherence,’ … ‘Pharma companies have the sense ‘that they are leaving billions on the table’ when medicine isn’t taken and prescriptions aren’t filled, Lamkin said. The push to improve adherence, he said, ‘reframes the goal of boosting sales as a goal of public service.’”
It’s all marketing. And this is sick.
“The companies are investing in smart pills that will send alerts when they haven’t been swallowed at the prescribed time.”
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Here is a case that should be covered on MIA –
This doctor just got sentenced to 30 years to life for overprescribing drugs that killed 3 patients.
We need psychiatrists to be tried in this way for overprescribing antipsychotics while not warning patients of the risks of these drugs. Seeing their colleagues go to prison for decades will make psychiatrists think twice about prescribing miserably ineffective, dangerous drugs like antipsychotics that don’t even treat a known illness.
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“The second-degree murder convictions Friday of Dr. Hsiu-Ying ‘Lisa’ Tseng were the first against a U.S. doctor for recklessly prescribing drugs … It’s rare to bring homicide charges against a physician, but the case came amid a prescription drug abuse epidemic that has led lawmakers to try to rein in so-called pill mills that dole out medications with little scrutiny.”
They’re trying to look like they’re hard on crime, even white coat crime, but they need to arrest a lot more than one doctor based upon today’s opium epidemic. And the only reason this doctor was even arrested was because the politicians are finally getting embarrassed regarding the opium epidemic some of their owners, the pharmaceutical companies, created.
As to, “You can’t hide behind a white lab coat and commit crimes,” this is absolutely untrue. The doctor I dealt with who was arrested, V R Kuchipudi, ended up, for unexplained reasons, having the charges against him dropped, even though his co-conspirators were convicted.
http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-ndil/legacy/2015/06/11/pr0416_01a.pdf
http://www.idfpr.com/Forms/PDFs/091313Maitrasuspexhibits.pdf
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCOURTS-ilnd-1_13-cr-00312/content-detail.html
http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/tdy6dlcb/illinois-northern-district-court/usa-v-novak-et-al/
I agree, we need to start arresting and actually prosecuting, not just the opium pill mill docs, but also those docs who “snow” people with the psych drugs, to cover up other doctors’ easily recognized iatrogenesis.
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“They’re trying to look like they’re hard on crime, even white coat crime, but they need to arrest a lot more than one doctor based upon today’s opium epidemic….”
Do you really want a police state war on drugs rep basically in the room with you and your doctor ???
What if you get in an accident and break some bones do you really want to be sent home with Motrin ??? I don’t want a drug warrior police state “protecting” me in the doctors office.
‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’
They are selling you the same failed police state drug war crap of the last 40+ years. Don’t buy it.
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