Hospitals & Asylums
Drug Regulation (DR)
To repeal
Chapter 6 Gorgas Hospital §300-320,
to reduce demand for the 10 billion prescriptions and oppression that fuel the
$1 trillion global drug market with $600 billion in pharmaceutical sales and
$400 billion in illicit drug sales, $160 billion pharmaceutical and $65 billion
illicit drug sales in the U.S. in 2001, to market antibiotics and highly safe and effective prescription
medicines Over-the-counter (OTC), to require all heart medicine labels to state
“antibiotics, hygiene, vegan diet
and daily exercise, are known to cure endocarditis”, to fast track the
clinical and animal trials of the antiviral DRACO that might cure HIV and the
common cold, to promote the manufacture of metronidazole in the USA, to refocus
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) staffing from 1,500 new drugs and 54 market
regulation in 1998 to do the more than 3,200 pharmaceutical preparations in
circulation social justice, to criminally prosecute the psychiatric enforcers
of dangerous neuroleptic drugs, to dissolve the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms (ATF) and transfer responsibility to an FDA Center for Alcohol and
Tobacco (and possibly Marijuana (ATM) and Department of Justice (DoJ) Bureau of Firearms and Explosives (BFE), to transfer
the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), prohibit DEA international offices and police finance and change its
name to Drug Evaluation Agency (DEA), to hire exclusively doctors to be DEA
Administrative Law Judges (ALJ) in preparation for the transition, to
commission a study of Schedule of Psychotropic Substances to identify and
prohibit from circulation the pathogens that cause serious mental illness, to
terminate automatically refilled contracts under DEA Form 222, to repeal the
loophole in the statute that has hypothetically caused PTSD and Gulf War
Illness since Vietnam, to change the name of the Substance Abuse Mental Health
System Administration (SAMHSA) to Social Work Administration (SWA), to transfer
the Secretariat of the International Narcotic Control Board (INCB) to the World
Health Organization (WHO), to remove Drugs from the name of the Office of Crime
(OC), to give Afghanistan 80% of the national and 75% of international opium
quota, to stop doctors from receiving kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies,
to divert pharmaceutical political contributions to independent candidates, to
eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing and reduce sentences for illicit drug
possession and trafficking, to make drug addiction treatment safe, accessible
and judged by social worker licensed in addiction studies, to reschedule
marijuana to Schedule III, establish an entirely new Type of classification for
the Customary control of drugs and prohibition of pathogens and refund the
mostly poor smokers of Roll-your-own tobacco and small cigars the unfair
>2,000% excise tax increase of 2009 by guaranteeing a reduced tax rate of $1.828 for 17
years a year for small cigars and $1.0969 for 13.5 years a year for roll-your
own
Be the Democratic and Republican (DR)
drug party Dissolved, Referred to the FDA.
1st Draft done as a Political
Science Thesis in 2000, 2nd Fall of 2004, 3nd Martin
Luther King Jr. Day 17 January 2005, 4th Halloween 31 November 2005,
5th American Pharmacists Month 15 October 2006, 6th 8
August 2007, 7th 5 November 2009,. 8th 25 November 2010,
9th Draft 11 October 2011
1.This Act amends Chapter 8 Gorgas Hospital Title 24 US Code §301-320
that is preserved in two sections, §301 and §302 pertaining to the change of
name of Ancon Hospital to Gorgas Hospital.
It may be cited as the Patent Remedy Act of 2009. The major institutional reforms proposed in
this Chapter are: First, to
shift the focus of labor in the FDA from new drug research to the normalization
of pharmaceutical industry and physicians prescribing habits, while making
antibiotics and other reliably safe and effective drugs available Over-the-counter. Second,
to appoint licensed physicians and social workers to the position of Administrative Law Judge
to prepare the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to change its name to Drug
Evaluation Agency (DEA) and be transferred from the Department of Justice to
the FDA while retaining the power of the Attorney General to make arrests. Third, to change the name of the Substance Abuse Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA) to Social Work Administration (SWA) to enable
social workers to inherit mental health, substance abuse, traffic and divorce
courts. Fourth, on the
international front, the Secretariat of the International Narcotics Control
Board (INCB) must be transferred to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) must change their name to Office of Crime (UNOC). Understanding of these necessary legal
reforms will enable the FDA to more effectively retain the services of the
Attorney General to criminally prosecute the legal defenders of neuroleptic and
psychiatric drugs, sleeping aids and antipsychotics, which are the leading
cause of fatal drug overdose reported to the Poison Control, and must be
recalled for the FDA to win the confidence of consumers. The FDA is arguably the best behaved federal
agency online, since their Commissioner was removed from office for conflict of
interest in 2007 and put on probation for lying about his stock holdings. The FDA however continues to be negligent
when it comes to social justice. The recuse
strategy seems to protect the authors and patients from potentially tortious
conflict of interest and libelous recrimination. The FDA may be safe, but is it
effective? While the research continues
unmolested, the law of perversity - the least is known about the causes and
cures of the most common diseases - leaves the patient hungry for an FDA
approved cure.
Bacterial Infections and Antibiotic Treatment
|
Bacteria |
Infections |
Usual Antibiotic |
Comments |
|
Actinomyces israelii |
Actinomycosis,
lumpy jaw disease, abscesses |
Penicillin |
An anaerobic
infection |
|
Arcanobacterium haemolyticum |
Pharyngitis |
Erythromycin |
Rash similar
to scarlet fever |
|
Bacillus anthracis |
Anthrax |
Penicillin,
ciprofloxacin, doxycycline |
Rate in
nature; was used as a bioterrorism weapon |
|
Bacillus cereus |
Diarrhea |
Supportive
care |
Food borne |
|
Bacteroides species |
Abscesses |
Metronidazole |
Anaerobes;
part of normal flora of the bowel |
|
Bartonella henselae |
Cat-scratch
disease |
None or
azithromycin |
Kittens are
the usual transmitters |
|
Bordetella pertussis |
Whooping cough |
Erythromycin,
azithromycin |
Infection can
be prevented by immunization |
|
Borrelia burgdorferi |
Lyme disease |
Doxycycline,
amoxicillin, ceftriaxone |
Transmitted by
ticks |
|
Borrelia recurrentis |
Relapsing
fever |
Penicillin |
Transmitted by
body lice and ticks |
|
Brucella species: abortus, melitensis, suis, canis |
Brucellosis:
flu-like symptoms |
Doxycycline |
Rare in the
United States; acquired by animal contract or drinking unpasteurized milk |
|
Burkholderia cepacia |
Pneumonia |
Meropenem |
Causes illness
in people with cystic fibrosis or chronic granulomatous disease |
|
Campylobacter species: fetus, jejuni,
coli |
Diarrhea |
Azithromycin |
Transmitted by
food and animals |
|
Chlamydia psittaci |
Psittacocis
(pneumonia) |
Doxycycline |
Acquired from
birds |
|
Chlamydia trachomatis |
Genital tract
infection, newborn conjunctivitis, infant pneumonia, trachoma |
Erythromycin, doxycycline |
Sexually
transmitted infection; newborns are infected during birth; trachoma rare in
the United States |
|
Clostridium botulinum |
Botulism |
Supportive
care; antitoxin or antibody |
Food-borne and
infant botulism |
|
Clostridium difficile |
Diarrhea |
Stop
antibiotics, metronidazole |
Occurs in
people who have been on antibiotics |
|
Clostridium perfringens |
Food
poisoning, diarrhea |
Supportive
care |
Food-borne
infection |
|
Clostridium species: perfringens,
sordellii, septicum, novyi |
Gas gangrene |
Surgery,
penicillin |
Anaerobic
bacteria; uncommon infection of muscles |
|
Clostridium tetanus |
Lockjaw |
Antitoxin,
metronidazole |
Rare in United
States because of immunization |
|
Corynebacterium diphtherieae |
Diptheria |
Antitoxin, erythromycin |
Rare in the
United States because of immunization |
|
Escherichia coli |
Sepsis,
meningitis, urinary tract infection, diarrhea, others |
Depends on the
site of infection, trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole
(Bactrim) for bladder |
Can be part of
normal flora of the bowel |
|
Francisella tularensis |
Tularemia |
Streptomycin |
Transmitted by
fleas or ticks or contact with infected wild animals |
|
Haemophilus ducreyi |
Chancroid |
Azithromycin |
Sexually
transmitted ulcer disease; unusual in the United States |
|
Haemophilus influenza nontypeable |
Otitis media
(ear infection) |
Amoxicillin clavulanate |
Not all ear
infections require antibacterial therapy |
|
Haemophilus influenza
type b |
Meningitis,
epiglottis, arthritis, pneumonia |
Ceftriaxone |
Now rare
because of immunization |
|
Helicobacter pylori |
Ulcers |
Combinations:
amoxicillin, tetracycline, metronidazole, clarithromycin |
Persistent
infection increase the risk for cancer |
|
Kingella kingae |
Joint and bone
infections |
Penicillin |
Not very
common |
|
Legionella pneumophila |
Legionnaries
disease (pneumonia) |
Erythromycin |
Rare in
children |
|
Leptospira species |
Leptospirosis:
fever, rash, flu-like illness, organs |
Penicillin,
doxycycline |
Acquired
through contact with dog or wild animal urine |
|
Listeria monocytogenes |
Sepsis,
meningitis, stillbirth |
Ampicillin or
trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim) |
Occurs in pregnant
women, newborns, and children with immune problems, food poisoning |
|
Moraxella catarrhalis |
Otitis media,
sinusitis |
Ampicillin clavulanate |
Not all
infections require antibacterial therapy |
|
Mycobacterium leprae |
Leprosy |
Dapsone |
Rare in the
United States |
|
Mycobacerium tuberculosis |
Tuberculosis |
Combinations:
isoniazid, pyrazinamide, rifampin ethambutol |
Most infected
people have no symptoms; one third of the world’ population is infected |
|
Mycoplasma pneumoniae |
Bronchitis,
walking pneumonia |
Doxycycline,
erythromycin |
Common cause
of pneumonia in school-aged children |
|
Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
Gonorrhea,
newborn eye infection, joint infection |
Ceftriaxone, cefixime |
Sexually
transmitted infection; newborns can acquire it during birth |
|
Nocardia species |
Pneumonia,
skin |
Trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole |
Serious
infection; usually in children with weakened immunity |
|
Nontuberculous mycobacteria:
Mycobacterium fortuitum, kansasii,
marinum, avium-intracellulare |
Lymph glands
in the neck, pneumonia, blood |
Surgery;
antibiotic depends on the organism and infection |
Lymph node
infections in toddlers; invasive infections in children with weakened
immunity |
|
Pasteurella multocida |
Bite wound
infection |
Penicillin |
Common in cats
and dogs |
|
Prevotella species |
Abscess
(dental and lung) |
Clindamycin |
Anaerobic;
part of normal flora of the mouth |
|
Salmonella species |
Diarrhea, bone,
joint, kidney, meningitis |
None for
diarrhea; depends on site for other infections |
Acquired by
contact with animals or contaminated foods |
|
Shigella species: sonnei, flexmero. Boydii. dysenteriae |
Diarrhea |
None, trimethoprim
sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim), metronidazole, others |
Food borne or
contact with infected person |
|
Staphylococcus aureus |
Diarrhea,
skin, pneumonia, joint, bone, heart |
Nafcillin,
vancomycin; depends on susceptibilities |
Becoming more and
more resistant to usual antibiotics |
|
Steptobacillus agalactiae (group B streptococcus) |
Meningitis,
sepsis, pneumonia, skin, urinary tract infection |
Penicillin |
Serious in
babies in pregnant women, endocarditis in susceptible adults |
|
Streptococcus pneumoniae |
Pneumonia,
otitis media (ear infection), joint infection, meningitis |
Penicillin,
ceftriaxone, cefotaxime |
Most serious
infection (85%) prevented by immunization |
|
Streptococcus pyrogenes
(group A streptococcus) |
Pharyngitis, skin,
pneumonia, joint |
Penicillin |
Rheumatic
fever, rheumatic heart disease, and glomerulonephritis can follow an
infection after a week |
|
Treponema pallidum |
Syphilis |
Penicillin |
Sexually
transmitted disease; can affect the fetus |
|
Ureaplasma urealyticum |
Urethritis |
Doxycycline |
Sexually
transmitted disease |
|
Vibrio cholerae |
Diarrhea |
Fluids,
doxycycline |
A risk for
travelers |
|
Yersinia enterocolitica |
Diarrhea |
Trimethprim/
sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim) |
Food borne from
pork, especially chitterlings |
|
Yersinia pestis |
Plague |
Streptomycin |
Rare in the
United States; transmitted by rodent fleas |
2. Broad spectrum antibiotics are the best medicine of the 20th
century. The only inventions that have increased
longevity longer are clean water and sanitation. Unfortunately, after WWII, when antibiotics
hit the market the medical establishment splintered into a myriad of
specialties, seemingly to endlessly and at great expense, treat symptoms of
diseases that can for the most part be cured with the appropriate use of
antibiotics. To ensure Americans have
access to affordable antibiotics and are not being denied life-saving treatment
by unscrupulous doctors and being intentionally sickened by predatory capitalist
hospital acquired nosocomial infections and medical and laboratory bills the
FDA is highly advised to make generic antibiotics available at affordable
prices OTC under 21CFR§330.10. To
ensure consumers and physicians are not misled by many medicines marketed for
the treatment of heart disease the FDA must require that drug monographs,
labels and consumer information given out with heart medicines, prominently
state “antibiotics, hygiene, vegan diet and daily exercise, are known to cure
endocarditis” under 21CFR§201.56(a)
as an amendment to 21CFR§201.317. The discoveries of the sulphonamide
(1939), penicillin (1945) and streptomycin (1952) classes of antibiotics won
the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology.
Doxycycline (1967), the once a day antibiotic, is cheapest and highly
effective against Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus
Aureus (MRSA), bubonic plague and acne but
tetracycline class antibiotics cause permanent yellowing of developing teeth in
children, and are for adults only.
Ampicillin (Principen), made from penicillin
nucleus and 3H2O, to reduce the allergic reaction to penicillin from 5% to less
than 1%, is the generally the first choice organic antibiotic for the treatment
of Streptococcus pneumoniae
of the lungs, ears and throat, as well as meningitis from such diseases as Listeria monocytogenes;
synthetic streptomycin and amoxicillin are also generally considered
effective. Like aspirin, antibiotics are
difficult on the digestive tract, which is home to more than a thousand times
more bacteria than the rest of the body, and the excretory system is
responsible for an estimated 80% of the body’s immune defenses, compromising
the effectiveness of antibiotics. Sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim (Bactrim) is easier on the
gut than most and is particularly useful for the treatment of bladder
infections and Escherichia coli. Metronidazole (Flagyl
ER) (1960) is uniquely effective against gastroenteritis and liver disease; it
cures Giardia lamblia,
the most common waterborne pathogen in North America, in three days, heals
ulcers, Clostridium difficile
that causes antibiotic associated colitis, Entamoeba histolytica that attacks the liver, and Bactroides spp.
that comprise 99% of normal gut flora, but is carcinogenic, and a month to six
week rest should be taken between courses of five to ten days, not to exceed
three weeks. Metronidazole deserves
special attention because so many unnecessary abdominal and thoracic surgeries
such as appendectomies, costing $20,000, and heart surgery, costing upwards to
$100,000, could be avoided with a 10 day course of generic metronidazole
costing about $20 online without prescription as referred to the Indian generic
pharmaceutical exporter Generics-discount.com, whereas no pharmaceutical
corporation in the United States of America manufactures metronidazole, by
Hospitals & Asylums’ Best Medicine Monographs HA-28-2-11.
Common AIDS
Symptoms and Medicine
|
Pathogen |
Symptoms |
Drug Monograph |
|
Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) |
Positive
HIV test, Elevated viral load |
efavirenz/emtricitabine/tenofovir (Atripla) possibly
new antiviral cure - DRACO |
|
persistent
generalized lymphadenopathy (PGL) |
Rapid
enlargement of a previously stable lymph node or a group of nodes |
Begin
or intensify antiretroviral therapy, causes vary, use antibiotics, Cidofivir (Vistide) is the anti-herpes for AIDS substitute for
Acyclovir (Zovirax), that may be improved with Foscarnet Sodium (Foscavir)
injection |
|
Coronavirus,
Rhinovirus, Influenza A & B, Parainfluenza,
Respiratory syncytial virus |
Swollen
lymph nodes, cold and flu-like symptoms lasting 4 days to a week,
bronchiolitis, pneumonia |
Cold
remedies: Diphenhydramine (Benylin, Benadryl), Chlorpheniramine (Telachlor, Chlo-Amine, Chlor-Trimeton, Aller-Chlor), Brompheniramine (Bromphen, Nasahist B, Dimetane Extentabs) Bed rest
for fevers. Flu vaccine
ineffective. OTC Theraflu, Allegra
(Sanofi-Aventis) and Children's Allegra (fexofenadine) and Allegra-D
(fexofenadine and pseudoephedrine); Prescription Oseltamivir
(Tamiflu) and Zanamivir (Relenza). Antibiotics for pneumonia, ampicillin (Principen), azithromycin (Zithromax), levofloxacin (Levaquin). Avoid asthma inhalers that contain
corticosteroids that suppress the immune system. Fatal adverse events with salmeterol inhalers. Smoke jimson weed for asthma and
mullein for bronchitis. |
|
Adenovirus,
Norovirus, Echovirus and Rotavirus acquired from
children |
Upper
and lower respiratory tract infections (URI, LRI), conjunctivitis, diarrhea |
Rotovirus vaccine (Rotarix GlaxoSmithKline GSK) (Rotateq
Merck & Co.), LigoCyte phase II intranasal norovirus, White rice water diet. Imodium (Loperamide), Immune Globulin IV for severe cases |
|
Salmonellosis Salmonella spp bacteria
acquired by ingesting contaminated food and water |
Severe
diarrhea, fever, chills, abdominal pain and, occasionally, vomiting,
contagious when shed in bile |
Hydration,
white rice water diet, imodium (Loperamide),
trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (Septra),
metronidazole (Flagyl ER) 10 days max |
|
Candidiasis
Candida albicans acquired from
antibiotic resistance |
Inflammation
of the mouth or genitals and thick white coating on the mucous, called
thrush, usually found in children. |
Antimycotics, antifungal
drugs: topical clotrimazole (Fungoid Solution,
Gyne-Lotrimin, Lotrimin, Lotrisone, Mycelex),
topical nystatin (Mycostatin,
Mykacet, Nystat-Rx, Nystop, Pedi-Dri), fluconazole
(Diflucan), and topical ketoconazole (Extina, Nizoral, Nizoral A-D, Xolegel). Take
metronidazole (Flagyl ER) to avoid antibiotic
resistant Candidiasis |
|
Cryptosporidiosis Cryptosporidium spp. Protozoal parasite
acquired from soil, bird or bat droppings |
Intestinal
and bowel infection causes severe diarrhea, cramps, malnutrition and weight
loss in AIDS patients |
White
rice water diet, Primary:
nitazoxanide (Alinia) Alternates:
metronidazole (Flagyl ER), Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (Septra) |
|
Cryptococcal meningitis Cryptococcus neoformans |
Fever,
hallucinations, headache, nausea and vomiting, sensitivity to light, stiff
neck |
Antimycotics: fluconazole
(Diflucan), flucytosin (Ancobon), amphotericin B IV (Amphotec, Abelcet, AmBisome), Paromomycin Sulfate (Humatin) |
|
Tuberculosis
(TB) Mycobacterium
tuberculosis acquired from cough or sneeze droplets |
Only
10% develop pulmonary TB involving fever, dry cough, weight loss and
abnormalities, 10% of these develop TB pleuritis
that infects the lining between the lung and abdominal cavity and causes
chest pain. TB kills two out of three
with untreated symptoms, death rate is 5% with treatment |
Isoniazid
(Rifamate, Rifater),
rifampicin (Rifadin, Rimactane,
Rifamate, Rifater),
pyrazinamide (Daraprim, Rifater),
and ethambutol (Myambutol)
for two months, then isoniazid and rifampicin alone for four months. Cured at
six months (2 to 3% relapse). For latent tuberculosis, standard treatment is
six to nine months of isoniazid. If the organism is fully sensitive,
isoniazid, rifampicin, and pyrazinamide for two months, combination Rifater (sanofi-aventis)
followed by isoniazid and rifampicin for four months, ethambutol
need not be used. Hepatoxic
|
|
Toxoplasmosis Toxoplasma gondii Spread
by cat feces |
Enlarged
lymph nodes, headache, mild fever, muscle pain, sore throat, in AIDS
patients, retinal inflammation and seizures |
Combination
- Antibiotic: sulfadiazine ie. Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (Septra) and
Antimalarial : pyrimethamine (Daraprim) and Antidote: leucovorin (Wellcovorin) Alternate:
Atovaquone (Mepron) |
|
Varicella-zoster
virus |
Chicken
pox and shingles |
Measles,
Mumps, Rubella and Varicella vaccine (MMRV, ProQuad,
Merck & Co., Inc.) or Varicella vaccine (VARIVAX, Merck & Co.); Cidofivir (Vistide), Acyclovir (Zovirax),
Valtrex (Valacyclovir) |
|
Cytomegalovirus
(CMV) herpes virus acquired from bodily fluids |
After
long latency causes damage to the eyes, digestive tract, lungs or other
organs, tumorigenic |
Cidofivir (Vistide), Acyclovir (Zovirax), Foscarnet Sodium (Foscavir)
injection, topical interferon alpha-2B for eyes and epidermal eruptions |
|
Kaposi’s
sarcoma human
herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) |
Bluish-red
or purple bumps on the skin, caused by tumor of the blood vessel walls, may
involve organs, in lung maybe bloody sputum, shortness of breath |
topical
interferon alpha-2B, Cidofivir (Vistide),
Acyclovir (Zovira), Foscarnet
Sodium (Foscavir) injection, intense AIDS drugs,
Antineoplastic: Cisplatin (Platinol) |
|
Lymphomas |
Begin
with painless swelling of the lymph nodes in neck, armpit or groin |
Topical
or pegylated interferon alpha-2B, Cidofivir (Vistide), Acyclovir
(Zovirax), Foscarnet
Sodium (Foscavir) injection, Antineoplastic: Cisplatin (Platinol) |
3. At the dawn of the 21st
century anti-retroviral drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS have been the most
successful new drugs to enter the market and the auto-immune disease is no
longer a swift and certain death but a manageable chronic disease complicated
by a number of opportunistic infections requiring constant medical attention. Viral loads are dramatically reduced, with
ever improving drug treatment that has most recently been simplified from
combination treatment to a single drug named Atripla
(efavirenz/emtricitabine/tenofovir), but AIDS drugs are not considered effective for
common use in the treatment of viral infections, nor are they free of
side-effects.
The philanthropic distribution of anti-retrovirals
to impoverished and highly infected populations around the world, particularly
in sub-Saharan Africa, over the past decade, have been successful in reducing
both the rate of infection and mortality from HIV/AIDS everywhere, but in
Washington DC where 5% of the population is infected and South Africa where the
reduction in infected population was explained in terms of mortality, achieving
UN Millennium Development Goal 6 for 2015 early. Cancer drugs, and understanding of the
benefits of an organic diet and chemical free lifestyle, have significantly
reduced death rates from cancer over the past decade. Cisplatin (Platinol), manufactured with the precious metal platinum,
stands out as being a broad spectrum antineoplastic that is effective against
most cancers alone, without any combinations, and minimal but still severe
side-effects. Radiation treatment is
reported to be about 80% effective in bringing cancers to permanent
remission. Foscarnet sodium and
Immune Globulin IV treat a broad spectrum viral infections ranging from warts,
the common cold and other minor respiratory tract infections and hepatitis, to
extremely serious diseases, such as rabies, AIDS, and at least 18% of all types
of cancer. Drugs that kill viruses have proved difficult to develop because
viruses live only within body cells and there is a danger that antiviral drugs
will damage the host cell as well as the virus.
Antiviral drugs given by mouth or injection can cause nausea and
dizziness, and, rarely, in long-term treatment, kidney damage. Interferons are
antiviral substances produced by many animal cells in response to infection by
certain viruses. Cloned gene technology
has now made interferons available and it has been
useful as an injection in the treatment of hepatitis C and as a drop or cream
in Acyclovir (Zovirax) resistant, cytelomegalovirus
infection. Highly effective vaccines
prevent poliomyelitis, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis, yellow fever, human
papilloma, rotavirus and post-exposure rabies.
The rotavirus vaccine (2006) reduced childhood ER visits for
gastroenteritis by 85%. Corticosteroid
inhalers were discontinued by the manufacturers for fluorocarbon concerns and
consumers have had to scramble to find OTC inhalers such Flovent
that can be purchased online without prescription. The FDA removed 600 OTC cold
and flu remedies, and to be fair should probably approve the prescription flue
treatment Tamiflu (Oseltamivir) for sale OTC. In August 2011 a new antiviral drug named
DRACO entered clinical trials. In the
laboratory DRACO killed HIV and dozens of common cold viruses without harming
human cells. DRACO may improve life
expectancy as dramatically as antibiotics did in the 20th century,
the FDA needs to fast track DRACO, as they have for AIDS drugs, cutting the
estimated time of pre-market trials in half, from ten years to five years,
under 21USC(9)(V)(A)§356.
4.
It can be estimated that the gross
aggregate global sale of pharmaceutical drugs is probably greater than $500
billion from 10 billion prescriptions. More than a
million prescriptions are written every hour of the working day, in a year’s
time eight prescription will be written for every man, woman and child in the
United States. In more than 700 million
annual office visits in the United States, a prescription of a drug is the
single most likely outcome. Between October 2004 and September 2005 a total of 3.6 billion
prescriptions were filled in the United States. Total US pharmaceutical sales in 2005 were estimated at $250
billion. 66.4% of these sales were
domestic. In 2003 the US biopharmaceutical
sector was responsible for $63.9 billion in direct output, $38.8 billion of which was for research and development in
2004, and
employed over 450,000 people across the U.S, 82,000 in research and
development. $23.6 billion in taxes are
attributed to the pharmaceutical industry, $6.4 billion of which were corporate
taxes. In July 2005, the ratio
of generic/brand share of market by volume (weighted average) was 54/46. In
2006, it is estimated to be 58/42. In 2003 there were 17 therapeutic classes of prescription
drugs. These classes in order of sales
are (1) Antidepressants (SSRIs, SNRIs) (2) Anti-hyperlipidemics
(Statins) (3) Anti-ulcerants (Proton-pump inhibitors)
(4) Anti-hypertensives (ARBs, ACE inhibitors) (5)
Antibiotics (Broad- and medium-spectrum) (6) Diabetes Therapies (Oral, injectible) (8)Anti-arthritics (COX-2 inhibitors) (8)
Antipsychotics (9) Antihistamines (Oral) (10) Neurological Drugs (For seizures
or pain) (11) Other Vascular Drugs (Calcium- or beta-blockers) (12) Anti-asthmatics
(13) Analgesics (Non-narcotic) (14) Bone Density Regulators (15) Oral
Contraceptives (16) Anti-allergy Drugs (Nasal steroids) (17) Analeptics (ADHD
treatments). This classification of
prescription drugs is not a scientific overview but a collective analysis of
the irresponsible prescribing habits of physicians. It is true antifungals have been omitted
because the safe and effective ones are so cheap OTC and antivirals were
omitted because they are new, toxic and wisely prescribed, however cardiovascular
and neuroleptic medicine are so highly duplicated that this list could be
rewritten (1) psychiatric drugs (antidepressants, antipsychotics, analeptics
and sleep aids), (2) cardiovascular drugs (Statins, anti-hypertensives,
ARBs, ACE inhibitors, calcium or beta-blockers (3) anti-ulcerants,
(4) antibiotics, (5) anti-arthritics (COX-2 inhibitors), (6) antihistamines,
anti-asthmatics and anti-allergy drugs (oral, nasal steroids), (7) analgesics
and (8) bone density regulators. Then
one could more clearly see how ineffective drugs are prescribed more than
effective drugs. Physicians must learn
to avoid the capitalist peer pressure of blockbuster drugs and prescribe the
medicine most likely to cure the condition.
5.
Studies show inappropriate drugs were prescribed for 1 out of 5 elderly
patients and 60 percent of the patients went home with a drug that wouldn’t
benefit them. Annually at least 1-3
million people are severely injured, 400,000 overdose and 100,000-140,000 die
from adverse drug reactions. No other type of accident causes a million
hospital admissions a year. There is clearly a need for drug regulation. Yet, the FDA only receives an estimated 1% of
adverse drug reaction reports. Neither
consumers nor physicians seem to have much confidence in the FDA. Physicians are much more likely to report
adverse drug events to the manufacturer than the FDA. To monitor the safety of 3,200 approved
drugs taken daily by millions of people, the FDA has a staff of just 54 in
1998, by comparison, to evaluate an average of 25 new drugs a year, the FDA has
1,500 chemists, doctors, toxicologists and statistical experts. In 1998
only about 4 percent of the FDA budget for drug evaluation went to monitor the
safety of existing drugs. The four basic drug safety tests are addiction,
cancer risk, unusual toxicity and cardiac effects. Of the top 50 drugs, 7
can cause addiction, 18 have cancer risks, 18 are unusually toxic, and 25 have
cardiac risks. More than 90 percent of drugs are potentially hazardous to
pregnant women and only five, including folic acid, are considered safe.
One out of eight drugs can damage the bone marrow, the critical source of new
red and white blood cells. Neuroleptics (antipsychotics and antidepressants)
and hypnotics (sleep aids) are the leading cause of fatal drug overdose
reported to the Poison Control Center and massive recalls and criminal
prosecution of corrupt practices are needed to terminate all psychiatric
licenses. On the other hand, Antibiotics, insulin and contraceptives are
so effective they should be made available over-the-counter. If given for
an infection against which the antibiotic is effective, it will be effective
about 90 percent of the time. It is highly important to note that
antibiotics are an effective cure for bacterial endocarditis while heart
medicines endlessly treat symptoms. Contraceptives are better than 99
percent effective at preventing pregnancy and for those with juvenile onset
diabetes insulin is virtually a 100 percent effective alternative to dying.
6. As of 2011 the FDA has been divided into (1) food, (2)
drugs, (3) medical devices, (4) vaccines, blood and biologics, (5) animal and
veterinary, (6) cosmetics (7) radiation emitting products and most recently (8)
tobacco products. Government regulation
of pharmacy began with edict of Frederic II of 1240 that separated the pharmacy
and medicine professions. At the time
pharmacists had to prepare every medicine and the specialization allowed for
mass production and technological advances.
Today the
pharmacist is a health professional who is the expert on more than 3,200
prescription pharmaceutical drugs. Pharmacists are also given the responsibility to help people
to maintain good health, to avoid ill health and, where medication is
appropriate, to promote the rational use of medicines and to assist patients to
acquire, and gain maximum therapeutic benefit from their medicines. Pharmacists
are responsible for maintaining vigilance that the supply of medicines and
medical devices for patient self-care is sufficient and that drugs are not
counterfeit or substandard and that prescriptions are not given in error by a
physician, causing an adverse reaction with other medication, in excess, or
causing the individual side effects. American
colonists blended Native American Indian and European medicine exercising a
right to self-medication. In the 19th
century the patent medicine industry regulated drugs that were inspected by the
Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
established the current regulatory regime that prohibits the interstate
commerce in adulterated or misbranded food and drugs and was named the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) in 1930.
Having zealously outlawed cocaine and opium that kept patients addicted
to the patent medicine industry after World War II and the marketing of broad
spectrum antibiotics, the medical establishment defensively fragmented into
specialties in an unseemly attempt to deprive sick people consuming expensive
treatments of the antibiotics likely to cure them. After a brief era of family medicine in the
1960s was subsidized by Medicare in 1966 and in 1973 DEA licensing gravely
infringed on the independence and integrity of medicine and pharmacy. Over the next few decades medical costs
skyrocketed and US medical expenditure and prison slavery became the highest in
the world.
7. The fatal flaw in patent protection
has long been that there are no provisions in the classification system to
expedite the prohibition of pathogens to prioritize the protection of human and
biological life. The guiding principle
is that patents are only for inventions that are useful, but pathogens bring
into question the fundamental utility of the patent for the inventor to dictate
the terms of use of the invention. In
regards to laboratory pathogens, biological weapons and malicious computer
software it is a human necessity that the inventors are required by the
government to effectively prohibit their invention. This ommission was
aggravated in 1971 when the Strasbourg Agreement on the International Patent
Classification System failed to agree with the Strasbourg Agreement of 1675
that was the first treaty to prohibit the use of poison and poison weapons. Disagreement thereabouts held up the
implementation of the Patent Cooperation Treaty until 1980 when the HIV
pandemic began. Effectively prohibiting
the deadly and disabling pathogens and harmful drugs that make trillion of
dollars for the health care industry annually by harming the public health is
an important ethical duty of all health care practitioners including
pharmacists, researchers, academics and government officials as citizens. To dramatically improve public health the
government needs to name, catalogue, control and prohibit all pathogens known
to laboratory research. To neutralize
the threat of armed attack the FDA should put the armed inspectors of the DEA
Office of Diversion Control to good use licensing, inspecting, cataloguing, controlling
and prohibiting the manufacture, acquisition, possession, stockpiling and abuse
of pathogens used in corporate and academic biomedical research and toxicology
laboratories rationally classified according to the hazard they pose. To safely responsibility for the registration
of laboratory pathogens the DEA must first repeal the military loophole in Form
222, terminate contracts there under and do a thorough epidemiologic study of
the mental illness hypothetically caused by the pathogens mixed in their
Schedule I with marijuana and other pleasant drugs and eliminate the pathogens
from their warehouses. Furthermore to
protect the prison and general population the DEA and all law enforcement
officers would be strictly forbidden from ever possessing pathogens, relying
upon independently licensed hazardous materials handlers, they inspect. The pharmacologic goal would be to reduce
drug consumption by reducing disease pathogens to create a healthier and saner
population protected by a rational prohibition of poison, without any
legislative accommodations for the crazy, hypocritical, politicized and
corruptly subsidized judicial “enforcement” of addictive narcotic and torturous
psychiatric drugs.
8. The creation of the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearss (ATF) in the Gun
Control Act of 1968 revived the prohibition fervor from whence the DEA was
created in 1973. After an extremely
unjust Tobacco Tax of 2009 and gun running scandal to the drug war in Mexico
under Operation Fast and Furious it is obvious that the ATF needs to be
dissolved. Wherefore both Alcohol and
Tobacco regulatory functions shall be transferred to the FDA in cooperation
with the Treasury Alcohol, Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (ATTB) while the Bureau
of Firearms and Explosives (BFE) shall remain in the Department of Justice (DoJ). The Convention
on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 and establishment of the DEA in 1973
precipitated civil wars in the major narcotic producing nations of Afghanistan
and Columbia as well as an oil embargo by hashish smoking OPEC nations offended
by classification of Cannabis as a Schedule I narcotic. Total Andean cocaine production (currently
estimated at 640 metric tons) has dropped nearly 30 percent (260 metric tons)
since its peak of 900 metric tons in 2001. To end 30 years of civil and foreign
military intervention the Andean Community must establish a Regional Narcotic
Agency to regulate the cultivation and distribution of coca and opium to supply
the quotas of international and national pharmaceutical markets for the benefit
of the indigenous peoples and consumers living there. Between 2003 and 2004, seizures of cocaine in the Andean
region increased by 28 percent to reach 157 metric tons. 95 percent of the
Andean cocaine seizures took place in Colombia. In
2004 the Andes produced $860 million in farm value coca. The US spent an equivalent amount on
eradication programs. Afghanistan must make peace with
the legitimate opium trade and open a red light district, within their borders,
for legal opium to elicit the support of the people to arrest heroin
manufacturers and smugglers and foster tourism by adopting a National Opium Agency strategy so that the
International Narcotics Control Board would grant the nation 75% of the global
opium market demand and the DEA 80% until the dependency to opium from the war
economy has subsided. A quota of 1.5
million kg for the Afghan National Opium Agency bought at $500 a kg for
$750,000,000 total would undergo a 5 time mark up to the international medical,
pharmaceutical and scientific research market-$2,500 a kg, $3.75 billion yearly
total, $1.875 billion a harvest. This
would show a net profit of $3 billion the first year, enough to fully finance
the national government and some social welfare. In the USA the
scheduling of Marijuana as a Schedule I most
dangerous, addictive and useless drug is testimony to the shabby science
undermining the CSA and marijuana must be rescheduled to Schedule III whereas
it is so pleasantly therapeutic that is indeed psychologically addictive but is
a much safer alternative to alcohol with no known fatalities or side
effects. A growing number of states have
legalized medical marijuana and many would like to completely legalize it. Tobacco
is the true schedule I psychotropic drug whereas nicotine withdrawal is so
severe it is a mental illness in the DSM-IV.
However apartheid-like
discrimination against mostly poor smokers of roll-your-own tobacco and small
cigars was evident in the >2,000 excise tax on those products smoked by the
poor, that drove up the price on these products 500%, although pre-rolled
cigarettes were subjected to only a negligible 158%. Before a cost conscious
pack a day tobacco addict could be satisfied for $1 a day in rolling tobacco or
small cigars but now the cost is the same as the $5 a day for pre-rolled,
wherefore many people substitute pipe tobacco.
For the newly create Center for Tobacco Products to be trusted to make a
beneficial contribution to society the FDA needs to advocate to Congress that
this tobacco tax, that was capitalized on to create a tobacco regulatory
agency, unfairly discriminated against the poor smokers of roll-your-own and
small cigars who be allowed a refund of 30 years at the old tax rate under 26USC(F)(65)(B)§6423(c)
9. In 2000 180 million people
worldwide - 4.2% of people aged 15 years and above - were consuming illicit drugs
in the late 1990s; this figure includes 144 million consuming cannabis, 29
million people consuming amphetamine type stimulants, 14 million people taking
cocaine and 13 million people abusing opiates, 9 million of whom were addicted
to heroin. In 2000 the international
trade in illicit drugs was estimated at $400 billion. Profits are reported to be so inflated that
profitability of the illicit drug trade would be affected only if 75% of such
shipments were intercepted. Current efforts only intercept an estimated
13% of heroin shipments and 28%-40% of cocaine shipments. In 1999, the estimated worldwide
production of opium reached a record of 5,778 metric tons derived from 217,000
hectares of poppy. Estimated global production of coca-leaf mounted to 290,000
metric tons from 183,000 hectares of coca.
The United States is reported to be the largest consumer of illicit
drugs, in 2000, U.S. citizens were estimated to spend a total of $64.8 billion
- $36 billion on cocaine, $10 billion on heroin, $5.4 billion on
methamphetamine, $11 billion on marijuana, and $2.4 billion on other substances.
In the United States 15.9 million people ages 12 and
older (7.1%) reported using an illicit drug in the month before the survey was
conducted and 1% were reported as being
dependent. In 1981 there were only
503,586 prisoners in the United States. As the result of mandatory minimum sentencing legislation in
the 1980s and 90s, that forced the judiciary to unfairly target drug offenders,
the US prison population increased 357.9% between 1980 and
2002 at an average annual growth rate of 3.6%, in 2004 it was estimated that
there were more than 2.1 million people were behind bars. It can be estimated that there are
now more than 500,000 otherwise harmless drug offenders in some form of penal
institution who are entitled to release.
Parties are to take all practical
measures for the prevention of abuse of psychotropic substances and for the
early identification, treatment, education, after-care, rehabilitation and
social reintegration of the persons involved.
The medical use of narcotic drugs continues to
be indispensable for the relief of pain and suffering, adequate provision must
be made to ensure the availability of narcotic drugs for such purposes yet
addiction to narcotic drugs constitutes a serious evil for the mental health of
the individual that is fraught with social and economic danger to mankind. In general psychotropic drugs abuse
tends to cause a state of dependence, and central nervous system stimulation or
depression, resulting in hallucinations or disturbances in motor function or
thinking or behavior or perception or mood. Addicts have a tendency to become
psychotic when they quit their drug and should be made aware of the symptoms of
mental illness before they suffer the withdrawal unprepared. Drug courts and substance abuse
treatment are innovative approaches to helping drug offenders achieve a drug- and crime-free life. These courts should be judged by licensed
social workers to create a clearer distinction between drugs and crime in the
minds of the people as well in the Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) that must change their name to Office of Crime (UNOC)
and Secretariat of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) that must
be transferred to the World Health Organization (WHO).
10. The general obligation of drug
policy is to limit exclusively to medical and scientific purposes the
production, manufacture, export, import, distribution of, trade in, use and
possession of drugs. The goal is simple: inspire informed
conversations between patients and physicians about healthcare, disease
prevention and the medicines that might help treat or cure illness. People have treated diseases, including pain and suffering, with
medicines since ancient times. A legitimate medical purpose is not inconsistent with the
public interest nor should the artistic use of psychotropic drugs be totally
disregarded as a source of inspiration and productivity in legitimate venues.
Unless there was substantial proof that a substance is harmful, it should
remain uncontrolled. Injustice
holds back the social development of the pharmaceutical industry and health
sector in an extortionate and subversive form of medical capitalism more akin
to slavery than feudalism, that requires constant
socialization. The pharmaceutical marketing strategy of offering physicians
kickbacks arose and was prohibited under 42USC(7)(XI)§1320a-7b(b). Most recently the tactic of stopping
production to create an often unspoken demand for an increase in the price of
the drug has come under regulation of a 6 month advance notice to the FDA under
21USC(9)(V)(A)§356c. The freedom of pharmaceutical corporations to
finance lobbying is challenged to prohibit the financing of Democratic and
Republican (DR) candidates, and allow the voluntary redistribution of pharmaceutical
profits to only independent candidates, parties, 527 political organizations,
501c nonprofit corporations and public charities as well as bona fide poor people and patients. Ultimately the
FDA is destined to liberate DEA Registrants from injustice, but some
pharmaceutical corporations, namely Eli Lilly and other producers of
psychiatric medicine, who sell dangerously defective and adulterated products,
perjure, censure and intimidate witnesses with impunity as the result of the
long and corrupt enslavement of psychiatry by Probate, obstinately demand to be
criminally prosecuted.
For the FDA to fulfill social justice and civil rights obligations
safely and effectively the FDA must (a) purchase fines for a reasonable price
to retain the author, (b) attempt to negotiate scientifically with licensed
health corporations and (c) retain the Attorney General to criminally prosecute
first the corrupt superior orders of judges, prosecutors and lawyers in defense
of scientific misconduct and secondly the misconduct of scientists, pharmacists
and medical personnel under their influence.
Sanders, Tony. Patent
Remedy Act. Chapter 8: Drug Regulation. Hospitals
& Asylums 9th Draft. 193 pgs.
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