On August 18, 2006, just eighteen years and three days before her first day of school, Emily Jackson swallowed a single OxyContin tablet, and soon died. Emily is one of hundreds of Americans and thousands of people worldwide who have lost their lives, powerful painkillers, such as heroin, without realizing the devastating potential for harm of these drugs, drug abuse, danger from drugs limitation to permanent damage and death.
IfWe blame Emily Jackson for the accident? Of course not. A close relative provided that the prescription pill legitimate own. And after three years of fighting cancer and the pain of various operations, Emily was in the normal medical practice that a pill for everything and anything that requires saturated.
Blame the relationship? Certainly not as good. The report does not attempt to push some of addiction as a new customer, a drug prescription. There was noknowing that such a tragedy would not have been possible.
The responsibility for the tragic death of Emily is a system that follows the edge of making profits rather than patient safety.
First, in this scenario, the debt is large, the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry richer soil based stock values, ensure patient safety, or to ensure that drugs and the risks are known, by any person should know that - medical patients.
In the case of OxyContin, CorporateThe greed of patient safety showed that the abuse shown recently in the pharmaceutical industry, Purdue Pharma, has been sentenced for U.S. $ 634,000,000 for lying about drugs is the power to make the drug, prescription, leaving a condition of life and destroyed his approach.
It 'also punished by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which for years has refused point effective actions in two of the most important:
Early indications: The FDA asked the patient advocacy groups, elected officials and members of the medical profession to limit the indications for prescribing OxyContin, Palladon and similar painkillers from the deadly "moderate to severe" chronic pain "not" - and only by disease documented clinical tissue.
second label: The FDA has also requested that the labels insist that clearly explain the real risk of analgesics such as heroin, including prescription drugs> Addiction, permanent injury or death of even a single dose. The tags are still unclear.
law enforcement and prescription drug detox and rehabilitation centers throughout the country on the front in the war against drugs addiction to prescription. A Baker's dozen of heroin and morphine as an analgesic has in the past decade and a half, is an epidemic United States, and no sign of a break. Statistically, more people are victims ofRead the full article or to die of prescription drugs for all illicit drugs combined road.
Ellen and Peter Jackson, parents of Emily, said an FDA panel not long ago that the agency will not approve any new form of OxyContin. He provided statistics that show that OxyContin has caused many deaths.
"My daughter is one of the statistics," said Peter Jackson, "and ask you to go back."
Maybe Jackson was not the whistlein the wind. If the adoption of Purdue has presented a new formulation of OxyContin for the FDA recently said it was less likely to cause addiction to prescription drugs and injuries, the Board denied the request, the request for more science and rhetoric real drug, the manufacturer.
Meanwhile, it is statistically likely that many thousands of Americans addicted to painkillers such as heroin, prescription drugs continue to suffer, which requiresDrug addiction recovery starts - if it dies.
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