Quotes About Pharmaceuticals

It seems paradoxical that, as medical scientists make huge advances in discovering the mechanisms of common diseases, fewer and fewer innovative drugs are reaching the market.

In general, people are administered drugs too readily.

Manufacturing doesn't just mean building cars and metal-bashing; it includes making pharmaceuticals and hi-tech electronics. A crucial part of the process is the research and development that allows better and greener products to come to market. Britain has traditionally had a strong science and engineering base.

The majority of modern medicines originate in nature. Although some mushrooms have been used in therapies for thousands of years, we are still discovering new potential medicines hidden within them.

The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are disabled...increased nearly two and a half times.

Clearly our current form of medicine will bankrupt us and simultaneously keep the chemical industry the number one money-maker as physicians nurture a nation of drugged zombies.

When we find unjustified spikes in the prices of long-standing life-saving drugs, we should slap penalties on companies trying to cheat people who need those drugs!

Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, the ICI spin-off that now exclusively funds and controls Breast Cancer Awareness Month, earns more than $300 million a year from the sale of a carcinogenic herbicide (acetochlor) while simultaneously marketing Tamoxifen, which has now become the world's bestselling cancer therapy drug.

Between 1996 and 2002, Purdue funded more than twenty thousand pain-related educational programs, almost ten a day, seven days a week. During the same years, Purdue conducted

Purdue paid its reps better than most drug-makers paid theirs—by 2001, an average salary of $55,000 and an average bonus of $71,500. Purdue spent a half-billion dollars on the one-on-one sales strategy between 1996 and 2001.

By 2002, six years after its release, Purdue was selling almost $1.5 billion of the drug each year—eight times the volume the company had projected. The single drug represented 80 percent of Purdue's net sales. It was the biggest-selling brand-name controlled substance on the market. The once sleepy drugmaker was now a powerhouse, and it wasn't about to concede that its star product had a major flaw. OxyContin's

And the companies developed one new opioid narcotic after another, hailing each as a breakthrough.

In 2010, ninety of the top one hundred oxycodone-purchasing doctors in the country lived in Florida. By 2014, the DEA said, the state contained only one. The number of oxycodone pills shipped to Florida dropped from 650 million in 2010 to 313 million in 2013.

the manufacturing companies keep asking the DEA for permission to make more pills, and the DEA keeps granting it.

Pharmaceuticals were the most profitable industry in the country, and the pharmaceutical lobby was by far the biggest in Washington.*

That's oxycodone—one of the most irresistible opioid narcotics ever cooked up in the six-thousand-year history of dope.

But since the mid-1990s, pharmaceutical giants have aggressively marketed painkillers to a wider group of patients with long-term or milder forms of pain. At the same time, the federal government has approved one massive increase after another in the quantities manufactured, even as its own officials declared prescription drug abuse a mounting epidemic.

If a man overdoses on Viagra, how do they get the casket lid shut?

As a doctor, my thing is, we need to have access to medications; we need to have reasonable prices for medications.

The Ranbaxy acquisition doesn't preclude us from making more large acquisitions. The important issue is whether we have the management bandwidth to handle the acquisition.

People have the right to know the drugs they are taking will make them better instead of harming them.

The value that the generic drug industry brings to the U.S. healthcare system is indisputable.

Italian reporters uncovered evidence that the Vatican had invested in Istituto Farmacologico Serono, a pharmaceutical company that made birth control pills, as well as Udine, a military weapons manufacturer (there were also unconfirmed newspaper reports of church money in gunmaker Beretta, a Monte Carlo casino, and a printing firm that published pornographic magazines).

I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases in the poorest countries.