AHS Views

A recent news story about Erin Brokovich’s daughter tells us that while Erin was out defending Californian’s rights to safe water, her daughter was getting into a little hot water herself. She started taking drugs. Mom didn’t know about it for quite a while but, when she found out, made sure she got addiction help immediately.  Her daughter is now in recovery, taking it one day at a time.

Brokovich has a history of getting things done. She sinks her teeth into something and doesn’t let go. I’m hoping this incident with her daughter will get her to look into the drug scene and do something fantastic.

For example, maybe she’d take on direct to consumer drug advertising if she knew how many people were being given prescriptions for addictive drugs that they really don’t need and probably wouldn’t be taking if they hadn’t seen it on TV.

There are already thousands of people suing big pharma for unethical practices of one sort or another: Not fully disclosing info about drugs, selling doctors on prescribing them for something other than which they were tested, bribing doctors, medical students and God knows who else to use their products,  funding research and researchers that come up with results that make their drugs look good, turning doctors and scientists into spokespeople with cold, hard cash – the list goes on and on.

When you consider all the crimes under this industy’s belt and the damage it’s created, it’s amazing there aren’t more restrictions, more policing, and more oversight.

It’s also amazing that no one has yet made any big pharma company pay for the addiction help services needed by their duped public. Even when they’re fined hundreds of millions of dollars, a lot of that money goes into government coffers, like the Purdue Pharma $634 million did, not to the people who were harmed.

And no one ever goes to jail!!!

Something smells really bad here. Erin – take it on.