Black Market Medicine

Black Market Medicine
Title Black Market Medicine PDF eBook
Author Margaret Kreig
Publisher Englewood Cliffs, N.J : Prentice-Hall
Total Pages 344
Release 1967
Genre Drug adulteration
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"This is a report on the mushrooming, hoodlum-infiltrated illicit prescription drug industry that few people outside the Food and Drug Administrarion know exists."--p.l.

Black Market Medicine

Black Market Medicine
Title Black Market Medicine PDF eBook
Author Cassandra Collins
Publisher Lulu.com
Total Pages 225
Release 2011-07-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0615418090

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Black Market Medicine A must read for anyone concerned about the future of healthcare in the U.S. Only a novel so far, John Macklin's story could be yours as a future caregiver. Or you could be cut off from further medical care as your apportionment runs out like Janis. This prescient story carries the reader through a futuristic nightmare where the U.S. Government makes every medical decision for you. Here is an excerpt: Now she knew there was no God. Janis had long been a believer, but no more. Her body had failed her, and so had her God. For three days, she had asked God to take her from this life. Three long torturous days, lled only with the hell of pain so intense she felt at times she must be losing consciousness. The cancer had spread. There was no hope and not the slightest given from Caregiver No. 42. A glass of water, a wet rag on her forehead, even some word of prayer would have been something. She knew they had cut back her allotment of medicine. She had heard that, as late as 2018, there had still been some Wellness Spas that had provided spiritual assistance. Naturally, Janis knew she shouldn't even be thinking such foolish thoughts, but her mother had laid the seed of spiritualism in her many years before. Before the legislation of 2045. Black Market Medicine Mainstream Fiction By Cassandra Collins facebook.com/BlackMarketMedicine

Black Markets

Black Markets
Title Black Markets PDF eBook
Author Michele Goodwin
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Total Pages 213
Release 2006-03-27
Genre Law
ISBN 0521852803

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In America, in direct response to indefinite delays on the national transplantation waitlists and an inadequate supply of organs, a growing number of terminally ill Americans are turning to international underground markets and coordinators or brokers for organs. Chinese inmates on death-row and the economically disadvantaged in India and Brazil are the often compromised co-participants in the private negotiation process, which occurs outside the legal process - or in the shadows of law. These individuals supply kidneys and other organs for Americans and other Westerners willing to shop and pay in the private process. This book contends that exclusive reliance on the present altruistic tissue and organ procurement processes in the United States is not only rife with problems, but also improvident. The author explores how the altruistic approach leads to a 'black market' of organs being harvested from Third World individuals as well as compelled donations from children and incompetent persons.

Phake

Phake
Title Phake PDF eBook
Author Roger Bate
Publisher AEI Press
Total Pages 489
Release 2012-05-01
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0844772348

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Roger Bate has spend years on the trail of counterfeit medicines in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, learning the anatomy of a nebulous, far-reaching black market that has resulted in countless deaths and injuries around the world. Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines is the culmination of Bate's research and travels—both a fascinating first hand account of the counterfeit drug trade and an incisive policy analysis with important ramifications for decision makers in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the international World Health Organization.

Making Medicines Affordable

Making Medicines Affordable
Title Making Medicines Affordable PDF eBook
Author National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher National Academies Press
Total Pages 235
Release 2018-03-01
Genre Medical
ISBN 0309468086

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Thanks to remarkable advances in modern health care attributable to science, engineering, and medicine, it is now possible to cure or manage illnesses that were long deemed untreatable. At the same time, however, the United States is facing the vexing challenge of a seemingly uncontrolled rise in the cost of health care. Total medical expenditures are rapidly approaching 20 percent of the gross domestic product and are crowding out other priorities of national importance. The use of increasingly expensive prescription drugs is a significant part of this problem, making the cost of biopharmaceuticals a serious national concern with broad political implications. Especially with the highly visible and very large price increases for prescription drugs that have occurred in recent years, finding a way to make prescription medicinesâ€"and health care at largeâ€"more affordable for everyone has become a socioeconomic imperative. Affordability is a complex function of factors, including not just the prices of the drugs themselves, but also the details of an individual's insurance coverage and the number of medical conditions that an individual or family confronts. Therefore, any solution to the affordability issue will require considering all of these factors together. The current high and increasing costs of prescription drugsâ€"coupled with the broader trends in overall health care costsâ€"is unsustainable to society as a whole. Making Medicines Affordable examines patient access to affordable and effective therapies, with emphasis on drug pricing, inflation in the cost of drugs, and insurance design. This report explores structural and policy factors influencing drug pricing, drug access programs, the emerging role of comparative effectiveness assessments in payment policies, changing finances of medical practice with regard to drug costs and reimbursement, and measures to prevent drug shortages and foster continued innovation in drug development. It makes recommendations for policy actions that could address drug price trends, improve patient access to affordable and effective treatments, and encourage innovations that address significant needs in health care.

White Market Drugs

White Market Drugs
Title White Market Drugs PDF eBook
Author David Herzberg
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Total Pages 372
Release 2020-10-23
Genre History
ISBN 022673191X

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The contemporary opioid crisis is widely seen as new and unprecedented. Not so. It is merely the latest in a long series of drug crises stretching back over a century. In White Market Drugs, David Herzberg explores these crises and the drugs that fueled them, from Bayer’s Heroin to Purdue’s OxyContin and all the drugs in between: barbiturate “goof balls,” amphetamine “thrill pills,” the “love drug” Quaalude, and more. As Herzberg argues, the vast majority of American experiences with drugs and addiction have taken place within what he calls “white markets,” where legal drugs called medicines are sold to a largely white clientele. These markets are widely acknowledged but no one has explained how they became so central to the medical system in a nation famous for its “drug wars”—until now. Drawing from federal, state, industry, and medical archives alongside a wealth of published sources, Herzberg re-connects America’s divided drug history, telling the whole story for the first time. He reveals that the driving question for policymakers has never been how to prohibit the use of addictive drugs, but how to ensure their availability in medical contexts, where profitability often outweighs public safety. Access to white markets was thus a double-edged sword for socially privileged consumers, even as communities of color faced exclusion and punitive drug prohibition. To counter this no-win setup, Herzberg advocates for a consumer protection approach that robustly regulates all drug markets to minimize risks while maintaining safe, reliable access (and treatment) for people with addiction. Accomplishing this requires rethinking a drug/medicine divide born a century ago that, unlike most policies of that racially segregated era, has somehow survived relatively unscathed into the twenty-first century. By showing how the twenty-first-century opioid crisis is only the most recent in a long history of similar crises of addiction to pharmaceuticals, Herzberg forces us to rethink our most basic ideas about drug policy and addiction itself—ideas that have been failing us catastrophically for over a century.

Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic

Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic
Title Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic PDF eBook
Author National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher National Academies Press
Total Pages 483
Release 2017-09-28
Genre Medical
ISBN 0309459575

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Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.