AND WHAT WAS INTRODUCED IN THE LATE 80'S???? PROZAC WHICH BRIDGED THE WAY FOR THE REST OF THE SSRIs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IN LIGHT OF THIS LATEST INFO COMING OUT ON THALIDOMIDE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE WILL HELP YOU TO SEE WHY MORTON MINTZ IS MY HERO AND WHY OUR WEBSITE IS DEADICATED TO HIM (EVEN THOUGH IN 1994 HE RECOMMENDED THAT I NOT WASTE MY TIME PUTTING MY BOOK ON THE MARKET BECAUSE HE FELT NO ONE REALLY CARED) AND YOU WILL ALSO SEE WHY I ALWAYS RECOMMEND THAT EVERYONE READ HIS MOST INCREDIBLE BOOK "A THERAPUTIC NIGHTMARE" - IF YOU CAN STILL FIND A COPY TO READ. IT REALLY SHOULD BE REPUBLISHED MORT!!!!!!!

DR. ANN BLAKE TRACY

www.drugawareness.org

In a message dated 4/4/2008 8:01:21 P.M. Central America Standard Ti, gm1000@prodigy.net writes:

Decline of oversight began in the late ‘80s

Congressional oversight of the FDA and the drug industry began to decline in the late 1980s, while the Democrats still controlled the House. It spiraled sharply downward in 1992­still on the Democrats' watch­with passage of a highly dubious law allowing the industry to pay so-called user fees as a way to speed FDA approval of new drugs.  Oversight collapsed utterly in January 1995, when the Republicans took control of the House and drug and tobacco industry campaign contributions took control of them. Speaker Newt Gingrich called the FDA the "leading job killer in America." He denounced its then-Commissioner, David Kessler, who wanted to regulate tobacco, as "a thug" and "a bully."

The collapse of oversight had appalling consequences.

In the decade ending in the Fall of 2002, 13 dangerous drugs were withdrawn from the market after causing many hundreds of deaths and many thousands of injuries. Consider the diet pills Pondimin and Redux. Taken in combination, they reliably caused heart-valve damage and sometimes a lung disorder that's fatal more than half the time. The resulting wrongful-conduct litigation was the largest ever against a pharmaceutical manufacturer. It was expected to cost what was then Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories an astounding $13.2 billion, Sigelman wrote.

Just seven of the unsafe drugs caused more than one thousand deaths. How and why had FDA hurried them to the market? Why had withdrawals been slow? David Willman of the L.A. Times investigated. He found that the FDA had become a partner rather than a watchdog of the pharmaceutical industry.