Global pandemic of fake medicines poses urgent risk

[singular_me]

mainstream academia is corrupt to the core, and of course, on top of that big pharma is being exposed on a regular basis in the west. So if we put all these medical deceptions together, it becomes obvious that colleges students are mastering in scams. But luckily some are beginning to wake up to the atrocity.

solutions offered by the articles below are just illusions, it like asking a confirmed psychopath to walk straight.

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Global pandemic of fake medicines poses urgent risk, scientists say
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Posted on April 22, 2015

Poor quality medicines are a real and urgent threat that could undermine decades of successful efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, according to the editors of a collection of journal articles published yesterday. Scientists report up to 41 percent of specimens failed to meet quality standards in global studies of about 17,000 drug samples. Among the collection is an article describing the discovery of falsified and substandard malaria drugs that caused an estimated 122,350 deaths in African children in 2013. Other studies identified poor quality antibiotics, which may harm health and increase antimicrobial resistance. However, new methodologies are being developed to detect problem drugs at the point of purchase and show some promise, scientists say.

http://www.technology.org/2015/04/22/global-pandemic-of-fake-medicines-poses-urgent-risk-scientists-say/
https://scienceisland.org/global-pandemic-of-fake-medicines-poses-urgent-risk/


The Global Pandemic of Falsified Medicines: Laboratory and Field Innovations and Policy Perspectives: Summary
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http://www.ajtmh.org/content/early/2015/04/16/ajtmh.15-0221

[Glass]

you can go into a "drug store" in many asian countries and purchase just about any "medicine" ever made. Question is, is the thing you buying the actual thing or is it a copy or completely fake. How do you even know a hospital that you may visit actually supplies authentic medicines and not black market junk.

I'm not sure that it is much different in the honest "west", however I think the scam here is to substitute pills that contain the actual medicine with ones that don't. So in one packet of pills you might find 30% contain no actual "active ingredient". Not actually a placebo but the same idea I suppose. My experience has been that medication I have taken has been ineffective quite frequently and I estimate about 30% of the medication I took did nothing while the other 70% did. All from the same packet. Some worked and others did nothing at all.

I doubt any one has ever checked the consistency of a packet of medicine. I think it's another way of boosting profits.

[singular_me]

it is not far fetched that if big pharma is poisoning populations with real brands (think chemotherapy as an example) it also may be behind the underground junk brand names, and like you say it boost profits as a result.

the fake and the authentic are causing same damage. This study is biased but only adds to the injury.