Anyone know who to contact over an illegal commercial on TV nationwide in the US?
Nothing to do with the convention. Just something I see happening I think is wrong. Back when I grew up Alcohol, drugs, and eventually smokes were banned from TV. Now pharma is 25% of our add revenue. Its working so well now other drugs banned from advertizing are finding work arounds. Its either a great class action law suit, or a great marketing idea I'd approach every pharma company with.What that got to do with the convention. I know a ninety year old..had a blood clot in leg..if
they hadn't disolved it..he would have gone to hospice...lucky for him,he is getting exercise
and going out to dinner again,if you live to be ninety..don't you deserve to live. Do they need
health panels. I know a eighty year old lady that don't want her son to have anything,so a rest
home staff of do gooder's are packing her up for the rest home with bad hip,once she can't walk
she will be put in a bed until her days run out...her funds used up... then the drip.....
I live in the Detroit TV market and have not seen this one yet. What you know and what you think you know may be two different things. There may be non-obvious reasons why nobody is very exercised about this. I don't know what those reasons might be but I'll bet there is a catch here.Ok theres a nationwide commercial running called Turntohelp.com . It addresses the opiate addiction problem in america which is big. The site then is a front for a pharmacuitcal company that makes a drug called suboxone. This suboxone drug is as bad if not worse then the drugs their trying to leave. Its a heave opiate itself. Your not allowed to run commercials for narcotics on TV. If you goto the site it basically give you 3 options, #1 of coarse being the greatest Suboxone, 2 Methadone clinics, 3. 12 step programs. Then they make it sound like they all don't work but suboxone which itself is highly addictive. I don't think they should be advertizing narcotics on TV like that even going thru a website. It would be like me creating a site for people with headaches, then forwarding them to the Oxycontin website.
Yes this is the problem with our heathcare. Oxycodine is horrible. I switched from that months ago and I feel much better. The problem has become is Suboxone has become a normal street drug. Your friend doesn't sound like he was on the up and up and seeing a proper doctor. He was most likely over prescribed for money and developed a severe problem. Coming from oxy though anything is an improvment. Thats why their banning it in a couple months. They've started telling all the doctors to stop prescribing it. Zohydro will take its place which is hte sme thing but vicoden based instead of pecoset based. With my ailments i pay $100 a month for a specialist pain managment and $80 a month for my prescriptions. You mention costs of thousands I can only imagine he was paying the dirty doctors $300 a visit and only able to fill his scripts at the dirty ma and pa phamies that over charge X10. For instance right now an oxy sells for $1.03 at Walgreens, at a local place that hordes them because they don't have limits they are charging $10 eahc cause every WG, CVS, etc.. is out.Having a close friend who has turned from oxy to suboxone,I can tell you while not a cure by no means,it is certainly a lesser evil.
With it he seams to regulate his intake much better,and the very important financial difference.
He went from spending thousands in a week to w/e his clinic visits cost.
That said,100% agree w/ you about the Pharma industry,I have nothing but disgust for their business model.
Oxycotin should be as hard to obtain as a organ transplant, yet they seam to hand the stuff out to anyone w/ the cash.
A old druggy friend of mine once told me while on the the subject of addiction,that oxy was unlike any drug he had been around in all his years.
That Heroin didn't hold a candle to it's destructive power,and from this he concluded it was created for the sole purpose of killing the poor and the ignorant.
At the time it sounded crazy,the more I watch the news,the more I am inclined to believe it.
If their business model includes killing the ignorant and poor, that model has a limited lifespan. Where will they get their money when all the poor and ignorant are dead?That Heroin didn't hold a candle to it's destructive power,and from this he concluded it was created for the sole purpose of killing the poor and the ignorant.
At the time it sounded crazy,the more I watch the news,the more I am inclined to believe it.