FDA Warns Drug Makers to Stop Selling Unapproved Prescription Painkillers
Action should not affect consumers or lead to shortages, the agency says
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Project My Sisters Keeper
Since losing my older sister, Tammy Marie Boyet-Sawyer, in January 2009 to an accidental prescription drug overdose, I have felt compelled to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to save some one else's sister or family member from their deadly prescription drug addiction.
There is so much to do. I need your help. I have created "Project My Sister's Keeper-The Tammy Boyet Sawyer Initiative" to use as a tool to educate, support, and promote the legislative changes necessary to End The Deadly Prescription Addiction Epidemic.
If you are at all familiar with addiction and addiction recovery, you have no doubt heard the term "rock bottom". Families of addicts who are desperate to save their loved one are commonly told for an addict to want to get treatment THEY MUST REACH "ROCK BOTTOM". For an addict, their rock bottom is usually the place where the seriousness of their situation is finally realized. It is the place where and time that they are no longer able to live in denial of the situation. Well, I ask each of you then, where's our "ROCK BOTTOM? When do we as citizens and leaders of Missouri stand up in a unified voice and say that WE WILL NO LONGER ENABLE PRESCRIPTION ADDICTION by our inaction.
Will you join us in support of these life changing and life saving efforts? http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Project-My-Sisters-Keeper
Why are drug-makers not subject to Federal Law?
If it was any person making illegal narcotics for distribution, the DEA would be all over them. But when it's a large drug company, they get a slap on the wrists or a letter to 'desist' from the FDA? Why isn't the DEA busting down their corporate and laboratory doors with SWAT teams and confiscating everything in site as they have for small mom&pop grow & dispensary shops in states where such are legal?
Doesn't (or shouldn't) the DEA (and other drug enforcement law groups) prioritize their resources based upon volume of substance and level of harm? It seems manufacturing narcotics for mass distribution (4% of the market?!) is several orders of magnitude worse than someone growing & distributing plants to a few local customers.
Where is the fairness and equal protection guaranteed under the law? This seems very wrong on multiple levels.
