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Purdue Pharma Markets Deadly Drugs Through Facebook

Might be a good time for the FDA to make Purdue Pharma "honest" and require the word "addictive" along with "abuse liability" on their OxyContin label.

(MYRTLE BEACH, Calif.) - As the FDA finalizes their "Opioid Recommendations" by 2011, Purdue Pharma is "marketing directly to consumers" in Facebook - a social networking website

Gary Ruskin, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Commercial Alert, was quoted in 2005 as saying "Direct-to-consumer marketing of prescription drugs should be prohibited...

Corruption in the Pharmaceutical Industry is a Minimal Risk Enterprise

Despite rules changes intended to benefit consumers over the past 60 years, multiple felon Big Pharma continues to play by its own rules.

(WINDSOR, N.H.) - As far back as 1947 when US military courts tried the criminals of I.G.Farben for the atrocities they both committed and assisted in support of the Nazi regime, sentencing for pharmaceutical/chemical companies and their employees has been remarkably minimal.

Narcotic Maker Guilty of Deceit Over Marketing

"Into an endless grave I fall. Only God will understand, why I'm more than gone" - Deathalizer

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - Since the criminal prosecution in Federal Court of the three CEO's of Purdue Pharma in July 2007, anyone curious as to what these guys are doing with themselves these days?

It's not like they are hurting for money. After all, they made a fortune out of marketing a very dangerous drug called OxyContin as less likely to be addictive or abused resulting in scores of deaths and addictions throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Fear Drug Pushers? Add Purdue Pharma`s Pain Societies to the List

"How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!" - Mark Twain

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - Last year the maker of OxyContin, Purdue Pharma attempted to market for "the undertreatment of pain in newborns and pediatric patients" as well as for something they called "pregnancy pain."

I made a complaint to a government agency against Purdue Pharma and they were made to discontinue this frightening marketing tactic.

Pain Relief Network Challenges Washington State`s Opioid Guidelines

What's contained in Washington State's Opioid Guidelines that has the multi-billion dollar Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, and one of their well funded pain societies fighting to keep opioids flowing in that state?

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - We'll begin with the Pain Relief Network's (PRN) "fight for chronic pain" treatment referring to what they are fighting for is the "dangerous crackdown on people with chronic pain."

They are turning to the protection of the courts in an effort to have the "deadly disease of chronic pain" declared a disability under the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Schneiders Guilty!!!

"Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom -- Justice is what comes out of a courtroom" (Clarence Darrow, Lawyer and Writer)

(WICHITA, Kansas) - A federal jury today found a Kansas former doctor and his nurse wife guilty of conspiring to profit from illegally prescribing painkillers to dozens of patients who later died.

Schneiders Fate in the Hands of the Jury

The verdict could come down very soon.

(WICHITA, Kansas) - After 8 weeks of emotional testimony, the pill mill trial of former doctor Stephen Schneider and his nurse wife, Linda Schneider has been handed over to the jury for deliberation beginning Wednesday morning.

Schneider has been referred to as the "Candy Man" and his former clinic as the "Burger King for pain pill addicts" with reports of overdosing and deaths of patients.

Schneider Trial Week 7

"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals" - Napoleon Bonaparte

(WICHITA, Kansas) - U.S. District Judge Monti Belot expects to send the Schneider case to the jury next Tuesday.

The jury is down to 11 people after another juror was discharged this week. Both the prosecution and defense have agreed that 11 jurors can decide the fate of the Schneiders.

Tumbling Tumbleweeds - a Continuing Look at the Schneider Trial in Kansas

One witness testified that while being treated by Schneider she received pain narcotics such as -- methadone, Lortabs, Soma and Xanax; a combination similar to other patients who had died of drug overdoses.

(WICHITA, Kansas) - A former police chief, a firefighter, a truck driver and a mother were among witnesses testifying on behalf of Stephen Schneider this past week during the 6th week of trial.

Schneider, a former Haysville doctor, and his wife, a nurse, are on trial on federal charges stemming from their practices of prescribing painkillers leading to patients deaths.

Schneider Trial - Week 5

"It is very sad, very sad for anybody to lose their life," Dr. Stephen Schneider on the stand

(WICHITA, Kansas) - Assistant U.S. Attorney Tanya Treadway cross examining Dr. Stephen Schneider on the stand about a deceased patient named "Robin"
Schneider: "It says right here, increased function and quality of life -- She had a life because of her pain management."
Treadway: "She doesn't anymore, does she?"
Schneider: "No, she doesn't."