We Can Stop #Drug Price #Gouging. Here’s How

We human beings sometimes do some terrible things in pursuit of the almighty dollar. But to our credit, one moral line most humans don’t cross is to gouge sick people on the price of medicines their lives depend on

Unless, of course, you count executives of giant #pharmaceutical corporations as human beings. Gouging patients is their preferred business model

our #Medicare program can now negotiate drug prices on our behalf.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/09/11/we-can-stop-drug-price-gouging-heres-how/

This is disturbing. I have paid close attention to covid news for years and I had no idea long covid caused “widespread pain” though that would explain the oxycodone shortage.

Regardless, this medication didn’t work. They have no #tools for #covid

Tonix's long #COVID #drug fails to meet mid-stage trial goal

www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/tonixs-long-covid-drug-fails-meet-mid-stage-trial-goal-2023-09-05/

#Glasgow City Council formally support #decriminalisation of #drug use. #Green and #Conservative councillors supported the change proposed by the #SNP administration, with #Labour resisting
#Scotland #politics #ScotPol
https://news.stv.tv/west-central/glasgow-city-council-formally-support-decriminalisation-of-drug-use

Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk is now Europe's largest company in market capitalisation, ahead of French luxury giant LVMH.

This follows the UK launch of Wegovy, a weight loss drug that cuts appetite and cravings. Tens of thousands of people have already signed up to waiting lists for the treatment.

https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business-daily/20230905-danish-pharma-group-becomes-europe-s-most-valuable-firm-after-uk-weight-loss-drug-launch

#Europe #Denmark #NovoNordisk #UK #Wegovy #WeightLoss #Drug #Pharma

New #Drug Can Help Treat Aggressive, Deep-Rooted Brain Tumors

https://www.sciencealert.com/new-drug-can-help-treat-aggressive-deep-rooted-brain-tumors

Federal health dept. says #marijuana should be downgraded to #Schedule3 #drug. It's currently a #Schedule1 #controlledsubstance—keeping marijuana in a group defined as having "no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse," which includes heroin and LSD.
If #DEA accepts #HHS's rescheduling recommendation, it could ease marijuana access. https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/08/federal-health-dept-says-marijuana-should-be-downgraded-to-schedule-3-drug/

#drug

#drug

Well, that was bound to happen

The San Francisco Standard: Rogue #Safe #Drug Use Site Pops Up in Downtown #SanFrancisco
https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/31/san-francisco-activists-pop-up-safe-drug-use-site/

Is this good news?

https://wapo.st/45QtGVz

I worry that it will take pressure off, and that after 50 years of completely unjustified placement on schedule 1, we're now in for another 50 years of schedule 3. #cannabis #ControlledSubstancesAct #Drug Policy.

"psa adhd gang, people recreationally using or abusing stimulants is not why they're hard to get, they're hard to get because doctors can be absolute motherfuckers with egos the size of saturn who like to play god with people's lives. if they didn't have the "drug seeking behavior" line to use as a tool to be a dick, they'd just say "tsk tsk you're obviously wrong about your own symptoms" a little more often than they already do. peace and love on planet amphetamines.

and this gets me because. it's like there's a contingent of adhders who heard that we're predisposed to substance abuse issues and, rather than connecting the dots of "substance abuse is often a coping mechanism resorted to in the wake of insufficient care for a psychological disorder, stigma against addicts is one more link in the chain of systemic societal ableism," instead thought "drug users are dangerous and selfish people who are out to do harm to uniquely vulnerable people like me." for a while I put this mindset down to the lack of experience and time to process ideas that comes with youth; it still sucks, but the people I knew in middle school who had bad takes about drugs and alcohol no longer think that way now we're in college, and mostly they changed their minds on their own instead of needing me or someone else to call them out directly. but there are subsets of adhd communities who used these talking points when their average age was 15 in 2016 and are still using them now when their average age is 22. so maybe the hot new trend for 2023 should be interrogating the propaganda you've been fed about drug users for your whole life and considering whether these ideas hold up to compassionate scrutiny and who benefits if you believe them."

#endthedrugwar #stopthedrugwar #classwar #drugs #drug #pharmacy #humanrights #fuckthesystem #eattherich #pharmaceuticals #entheogenic #amphetamine #methamphetamine #capitalism #fascism #health #ego #econotego

https://www.tumblr.com/hater-of-terfs/727073743648735232?source=share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0xoZOKiO9s #drug #psychedelic #ドラッグ #LSD

#Sanders Says 'Much More Has to Be Done' to Cut #Prescription #Drug Prices

"Bottom line: We should not be paying any more for prescription drugs than other countries around the world," said Sanders.

Sanders (I-Vt.), the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, welcomed the administration's move as "an important step forward in taking on the greed of the pharmaceutical industry and their 1,800 paid lobbyists in Washington, D.C."

#

https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-says-much-more-has-to-be-done-to-cut-prescription-drug-prices

🐉 August 19th, 2021: The Summit Wellness Group > Environmental Signs of a #Drug Problem < Finding Drug #Paraphernalia. - Drug Abuse https://therumorsofwars.blogspot.com/2023/08/august-19th-2021-summit-wellness-group_27.html

#Millennials born in the mid to late 80s had the lowest rates of youth #suicide on record, but also some of the highest rates of #death from #cancers and diseases associated with #drug and #alcohol consumption.

Compare to #zoomers who by all measures are doing the exact opposite.

@corymoll @sfstandard @sfchronicle @sfgate she's that stubborn #Mom archetype that tries to force her #miserable kids to "have fun" her way with a big #fake smile on her face ... While her kids warm up to the idea of #drug addiction as an emotional stopgap

Same ol' #karma, I guess

#ExistentialGap #SanFrancisco #leaders

"A #Drug #Policy That Would Get My #Vote"
https://sdyearwood.medium.com/a-drug-policy-that-would-get-my-vote-3e6ee7a4c220

#ElonMusk ’s Erratic Behavior May Be Caused By Escalating #Drug Use, Associates Say https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-odd-behavior-may-be-due-to-increasing-drug-use-associates-tell-ronan-farrow

@gop Candidate Claims #AbortionPills Laced With #Fentanyl

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/08/gop-candidate-claims-abortion-pills-may-be
#AttorneyGeneral hopeful @lizmurrillforag came out with this whopper during a #Talk #Radio interview: Nefarious #drug pushers are lacing online #abortion #pills with fentanyl.

へえ～ドイツで大麻合法化するのか。
https://courrier.jp/news/archives/335727/ #大麻 #ドラッグ #drug