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    Petition

    Hi

    hope all members will sign this petition




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    Thank you for signing my petition: Stop Drug Companies Killing for Profits!!

    Every single person who joins strengthens our call for action. Please take a minute to share this link with everyone you know:

    http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Sto...r_Profits/?tta

    Let's make change together,
    Patrick

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    Here's the petition for forwarding to your friends:

    Stop Drug Companies Killing for Profits!


    The profit-hungry drug company GlaxoSmithKline has been peddling a diabetes drug they knew was causing heart attacks without informing doctors or patients of the risk. Regulators in the EU knew about the dangers but failed to act fast enough, putting lives unnecessarily at risk. Previously, UK regulators knew about anti- depressants causing suicide but took over ten years to do anything about it. The same complacency is happening again with new anti-depressants and other drugs.


    Earlier this month GSK pleaded guilty to criminal charges relating to anti-depressant and diabetes drug frauds and agreed to pay a $3 billion fine. That brings total fines against big pharma in the US to almost $14 billion! But no fines in the UK or EU. Why do we put up with it?


    A massive push from thousands of people right now will add to pressure from the media and force regulators to act faster and more decisively against dangerous drugs. As a citizen of the UK I need to know that my family and I are safe and that drug companies put patients before profits. But drug companies will only do the right thing if regulators force them.


    Let’s join together in a gigantic outcry for the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulation Agency and EU’s European Medicines Agency to put safety first. Sign the petition!

    http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Sto...r_Profits/?tta

    Sent by Avaaz on behalf of Patrick's petition

    poodlebell

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    Thank you, Poodlebell! I signed it and sent the link to more people.
    Last edited by Luc; 07-23-2012 at 11:31 AM.
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    Hi Luc

    thanks, think more people need to know about the diabetes drug and GSK

    poodlebell

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    Signed and sent the link.
    Severe anxiety since childhood .SSRIs for OCD.
    Major traumatism in my life:Prozac during short periods.
    Deroxat (=Paxil) during 7 years.
    Three unsuccessful atempts to quit.
    Deroxat free since may 2008 (Cold turkey )

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    Avaaz is a really neat organization –

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    I signed it too, GSK is for me the incarnation of the devil itself... This company is by no means better that IG Farben who manufactured Zyklon B (hydrocyanic acid) to kill the Jews in WW2 and while knowing this, never hesitated to deliver the stuff and get their blood money for it.
    Recovering from the ravages of withdrawal after 5 years on Paxil/Seroxat, originally prescribed for stress and, looking backward, PTSS.
    Though it is hardly possible to get something positive from the utter hell of repeated c/t's and protracted w/d, all of this unnecessary, I still believe in the possiblity to emerge from this as a healed, wiser human being.
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    The peition has passed the 2000 signatures mark...
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