‘Ibuprofen’ is a Killer
“Today we know that the risk of heart attack and stroke may occur early in treatment, even in the first weeks … “There is no period of use shown to be without risk,” says Judy Racoosin, M.D., M.P.H., deputy director of FDA’s Division of Anesthesia, Analgesia, and Addiction Products.” FDA website
July 25, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – “Counterpunch“ – In case you missed it: The FDA has just issued a warning on various prescription and non-prescription drugs that Americans ingest by the boatload. As it happens, these seemingly benign pain relievers can kill you even if you scrupulously follow the recommended dosage. But don’t take my word for it. Here’s a blurb from the FDA website:
“FDA is strengthening an existing warning in prescription drug labels and over-the-counter (OTC) Drug Facts labels to indicate that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can increase the chance of a heart attack or stroke, either of which can lead to death. Those serious side effects can occur as early as the first few weeks of using an NSAID, and the risk might rise the longer people take NSAIDs. (FDA Strengthens Warning of Heart Attack and Stroke Risk for Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs, FDA website)
Notice how the FDA refers to “death” as “a serious side effect.” How’s that for an understatement? Here’s more from the FDA warning:
“The OTC drugs in this group are used for the temporary relief of pain and fever. The prescription drugs in this group are used to treat several kinds of arthritis and other painful conditions. Because many prescription and OTC medicines contain NSAIDs, consumers should avoid taking multiple remedies with the same active ingredient.” The New York Times includes “Motrin IB, Aleve and Celebrex” in this group of “widely used painkillers “.
Why isn’t this headline news? People take tons of these chemicals everyday thinking they’ve been thoroughly tested and are totally safe. Now we find out that’s not the case. Now we discover that you can get a heart attack or stroke “as early as the first few weeks of using” them. Doesn’t that come as a bit of a shock to you, dear reader? Doesn’t that make you suspect that the FDA is not telling the whole truth here, but is simply covering up for a profit-obsessed industry that doesn’t give a rip about its customers health?
Take a look at some of these articles I dredged up on Google News on the topic:
“Doctors issue Ibuprofen toxicity warning.” Daily Telegraph. “Warning: Runners May Be At Risk From Ibuprofen Use.” Australian Marathon Review. “Ibuprofen ‘trebles the risk of a stroke’ doctors warn”, Daily Mail Online. “Ibuprofen Side Effects Land Thousands in the Hospital”, Side-Effects. com. “The FDA’s Dilemma About Ibuprofen And Cardiovascular Risk”, Forbes. “Ibuprofen Blunts Aspirin’s Cardioprotection. FDA Issues Warning”, lexi.com. “Aspirin, Ibuprofen Warnings Advised–Health: Consumers need to be told the painkillers can cause internal bleeding and kidney damage, a panel tells the FDA.”, LA Times.
And how reliable is FDA in determining the toxicity of these medications anyway? Wasn’t the so-called “watchdog” agency implicated in pay-to-play flap just a couple years ago? Some readers might recall another incident when the FDA was caught in a “spying program on its own scientists, lawmakers, reporters and academics” to “discourage whistleblowing.”
According to Truthout’s Martha Rosenberg: “top FDA managers “committed the most outrageous misconduct by ordering, coercing and intimidating FDA physicians and scientists to recommend approval, and then retaliating when the physicians and scientists refused to go along.”
Review procedures at the agency (which approves stents, breast implants, MRIs, and other devices and machinery) were so faulty that unsafe devices – including those that emit excessive radiation – were approved, charged the scientists, provoking an OSC investigation … For reporting the safety risks, the scientists became targets of the now-disclosed spy program and some lost their jobs. “…
(According to FDA drug reviewer Ronald Kavanagh) “While I was at FDA, drug reviewers were clearly told not to question drug companies and that our job was to approve drugs. We were prevented, except in rare instances, from presenting findings at advisory committees. In 2007, formal policies were instituted so that speaking in any way that could reflect poorly on the agency could result in termination.
If we asked questions that could delay or prevent a drug’s approval – which of course was our job as drug reviewers – management would reprimand us, reassign us, hold secret meetings about us, and worse. Obviously in such an environment, people will self-censor.” (Former FDA Reviewer Speaks Out About Intimidation, Retaliation and Marginalizing of Safety, Martha Rosenberg, Truthout)
Nice, eh? And this is the agency that’s supposed to protect the public from risky drugs?
Right. Does the name “Vioxx” ring a bell? If not, here’s a little refresher from an article by Fred Gardener in Counterpunch titled “Merck Pays a Pittance for Mass Deaths”:
“Merck has agreed to pay $950 million and has pleaded guilty to a criminal charge over the marketing and sales of the painkiller Vioxx,” the New York Times reported Nov. 23 …
The FDA had initially approved Vioxx (after a hasty “priority review”) in May, 1999 to treat osteoarthritis, acute pain, and menstrual cramps. By September 30, 2004, when Merck announced its “voluntary recall,” some 25 million Americans had been prescribed the widely hyped drug. Evidence that using Vioxx doubled a patient’s risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke —based on a review of 1.4 million patients’ records— was about to be published in Lancet by David Graham, MD, an FDA investigator. The FDA director’s office, devoted valet of Big PhRMA, had contacted the Lancet in a futile effort to stop publication of their own scientist’s findings.
Graham’s data indicate that 140,000 Americans suffered Vioxx-induced heart attacks and strokes; 55,000 died, and many more were permanently disabled. The Merck executives’ real crime was conspiracy to commit murder … An early clinical trial had alerted them to the fact that Vioxx caused coronary damage. Their response was to exclude from future trials anyone with a history of heart trouble!
Once Vioxx was approved, Merck spent more than $100 million a year advertising it … Sales hit $2.5 billion in 2003. And when brave Dr. Graham first presented his irrefragable evidence to an FDA advisory committee in February 2004, Merck argued that the “unique benefits” of Vioxx warranted its remaining on the market.
The FDA committee voted 17-15 to keep it available with a black box warning. Ten of the 32 committee members had taken money from Merck, Pfizer or Novartis (which were pushing drugs similar to Vioxx) as consultants. If these MDs had declared their conflicts of interest, Vioxx would have been pulled from the market by a vote of 14-8. By buying an extra seven and a half months, Merck made an extra billion or two, and killed 6,000 more Americans.
Worldwide, Vioxx was used by 80 million people. Assuming their dosages were similar to the 1.4 million Kaiser Permanente patients whose records Dr. Graham analyzed, the death toll exceeds 165,000.” (Merck Pays a Pittance for Mass Deaths, Fred Gardner, CounterPunch)
Is that what’s going on? Is some prestigious organization like Lancet about to release a damning report on these dubious pain relievers, so the FDA is trying to get ahead of the story to save their own kiester? How much has the culture at the FDA really changed since the Vioxx scandal? Is the agency still owned and operated by the industries its supposed to regulate?
Do you really need to ask? The better question would be: What regulatory agency in the U.S. ISN’T owned corporate America? They own it all; lock, stock and barrel.
And, keep in mind, (according to Gardner) Vioxx killed over 165,000 people.
Now guess how many Merck executives went to jail?
Yep. Zero.
I’m not saying these medications don,t help to relieve chronic pain from “debilitating conditions, including osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout and other rheumatological and painful conditions”. They do. But whether they’re useful or not doesn’t change the fact that “even small amounts” of this crap can put you at risk of a heart attack or stroke. That’s what the public needs to know, and that’s the FDA’s job. Here’s an excerpt from an article in the NYT that tries to minimize the dangers:
“The broader context is important. The relative risk of heart attack and stroke from the drugs is still far smaller than the risk from smoking, having uncontrolled high blood pressure or being obese.”
True, and it’s probably less risky that bungee-jumping off the Empire State Building, but what difference does that make. The fact is, it can kill you, the FDA KNOWS it can kill you, and yet they haven,t done anything to counter the relentless tsunami of industry generated propaganda that has convinced the American people that these medications are risk free. Here’s more on that from the Times:
“The agency said it would ask drug manufacturers to change the labels to reflect new evidence that the drugs increased the risk of heart attack and stroke soon after patients first started taking them, and that while the risk was higher for people with heart disease, it surfaced even for people who had never had heart problems.”
Let me get this straight: The FDA knows that these anti inflammatories are killing people and they’re going to “ask” the drug companies if they’ll change the labels? Is this how regulation works in the US nowadays; the agencies basically have to grovel before these cutthroat industries just to get them to do the right thing?
I have a better idea: Why not just prosecute a few of these drug-pushing executives for manslaughter?
That ought to do the trick, don’t you think?
Here’s one last blurb from the Times:
“There is great concern that people think these drugs are benign, and they are probably not,” (said Dr. Peter Wilson, a professor of medicine and public health at Emory University in Atlanta) “The thought is these are good for short-term relief, probably for your younger person with no history of cardiovascular trouble.”
There it is from the horses mouth. Do not presume that these medications are safe just because they’re hyped in the media. Do your own research and decide for yourself whether the benefits outweigh the risks.
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I don’t trust the FDA as far as I could throw them . Why ? Because this same agency allow Aspertame ( a kin to arsenic ) Asuflame ( a nerve damaging agent in America ‘s sweeteners . Aluminum and tac in antacids like Roland’s and the others . These are toxic to your body . Fluoride in water and toothpaste which is a poision if one drop we’re taken it would kill you . In its deluded amounts , it dumbs you down and pits your teeth . Yellow colorings in Mac and cheese which is banned in Europe because of hipper activity . Hydrogenized oils which is a carsenagentic which causes cancer . What about the vitamin study that said vitamins are over rated . No need taking them . Yeh right and end up like 3 rd workd countries with diseases from vitamin deficency . And the list goes on and on . Let me ask this question . What is the first drug given to a heart patient . 81 ml gram Aspirin . Why because it helps prevent heart attacks and blood clots . Another study showed those that take aspirin have less chance of getting cancer . Wow ! Our government officials have gotten were they lie just to be lying . The reason they ban GOD from government offices is because GOD says for without in Heaven is liers and etc …. Something else anti inflammatory drugs remove inflammation . What ends up killing most people – inflammation ! It finally wears out the heart and organs . What is the number one inflammation fighter – Aspirin ! It comes from the willow tree . Was used for centuries for pain and swelling from inflammation . To much like anything else will can hurt you . It thins the blood and if cut could cause bleeding in excess . But when one is having a heart attack they are shot up with a high dose of aspirin but given another name because it is mixed with a liquid like water .
I agree with you in someway
are you sure?
Dosing, or applying the correct dose, is the Achilles Heel of Quackery & Handler, which, when “liberally applied”, somehow but don’t know how, enthrones this Tentacle of The Bookie to the mantle of The Vast Majority. That of instituting Relative Intelligence via Stupidity & Dumbness, The Stupid being The Overly Complex whereas The Dumb are The Overly Simple. “Correct Dosing” is why, “Getting Drugs onto The Market”, cost lives and more if only because Stupidity & Dumbness needs to kill enuff “Animals” before maiming/killing humans in “trials”, and B4 Da Governmented guarantees their release – and that is if said “drugs”, aka “Dosage via Stupidity-Dumbness/Blind-Blindedness/Kollateral-Damage” do not maim/kill – should they be found wanting like “Artificial Sweeteners”. A simple matter when Division/Pro-vs-Con rulez Da Roost. No wonder the likes of AbamyKare [and all the other unsavoury stuff] is ALL about Counting de Money, hee-hee, haw-haw.
It will be benevolent to finally be able to realise that Materialism, aka Energy Transformation, is ALL about Collateral Damage/Stupidity-Dumbness, aka Kollateral Damage, whereas Spirituality is ALL about The Magic Bullet, aka Energy Creativity, aka “The Vibrations”.
That of empowering Stupidity-Dumbness with Absolute Intelligence. But not when said empowerment turns out to be Of Division/”Thought”/The-Past-vs-The-Future. You know, to make The Overly Complex more stupid [or merely dumb/vice-versa]. That of offering some kind of Kollateral Damage and calling that The Magic Bullet. Yes munn, Da Maagik of le Tontins ……..
No wonder stupid-dumb “generals” are awarding loadsa “Free”/Other-People’s Money to The Overly-Complex/Underly-Conscienced in order to arrive at the collateral damage which damages the most collaterally. Not that jokers have the courage to call a spade a spade other than barefaced lying to The Susceptibles. You know, those of Control Freakism who are latently The Abandoned of Nuttism/Insanity.
Unbeknownst to The Vast Majority, with The Vast Majority of The Indentured remaining similarly transfixed after the passing of their dramas, Stupidity/Over-Complexity comes from Thinking Futuristically – that of Projecting Thought. OTAH, being Dumb/Overly-Simplistic, comes from Thinking/”Feeling-Sympathetic” about The Past, The Past being “Of The Dead”. But not when being emotionally abandoned is considered some kind of an Elevation to Perfection. You know, when the deluded sympathy of Goody-2-Shoes and Airy-Fairyness empower, say, The Bigge-Fat Charity Committee to realise their elevated remuneration or when Beggars-Thieves, self-certified as “Politicians”, institute theft via “Global Warming” in order that they are able to have First Dibs at The Looting, hee-hee, haw-haw. Yes, munn, Karbon Eemmissions ………
It will be benevolent to finally be able to realise that ”The Stone Dead”, like Thieves, are who and what they are, just like that boulder obstructing one’s path. But not when Talking To A Wall is the means to mesmerising. You know, when kreatures like “Preachers” and “Re-Presentatives”, whose invincibility of oratory, enable them to Make Sense To [even] A Wall.
Just because Le Banque exists does not mean that It is the funding source for one’s unsustainable/wanton desires. Just because self is able to witness Wickedness-in-Progress does not mean that self is some Already Perfect out to wage the War on Imperfection by unleashing one’s imperfections. More so when self is merely self-certifying one’s perfection. How did humans became this deluded to the point of blindly accepting-rejecting Religion & Religiosity?
The essence of The Energy Creator is Unconditionality. That of Compassion expressed as Mercy. This is because there is only One Energy Creator although The Already Perfect would like to disagree, of course. Reality will be instituted when Energy Construction becomes Energy Destruction. Before “Matters become Impossible”. Impossibilities like when The Already Perfect unleash their imperfections as the sign of their perfection much like when Beggars-Thieves liberating their favourite Who*e, Propaganda, in order to augment their Fame, Fortune & Immortality.
The Magic Bullet is The Energy who has Absolute Intelligence whereas Stupid-Dumb Energy utilises Kollateral Damage to front their version of “Divinity”/Infinity. If true, and It Is The Truth, those who are able to change from Selfishness to Selflessness, in these modern-times, will be gifted said Magic Bullet, aka “The Vibrations”, which, initially, is a Cool Flowing of Her Manifestation/Energy-Replenishment [The Absolute Feminine, aka Love The Almighty, being Empowerment, whereas Truth is The Absolute Masculine and is Accumulation]. Just as described in ALL the Scriptures, the aim of Scriptures being to describe Divine-Incarnations/Principles-of-Divinity and not to creating Religions sustained by their Religiosities. No wonder The Stupide & Dumbe always end up posing next to those at The Helm of Religions.
When Energy Construction becomes Energy Destruction [bearing in mind that only those who are able to absolutely create are able to absolutely destroy], The Magic Bullet will absolutely home-in on Malevolence/The-Relativism-between-Stupidity-&-Dumbness. That is when, say, the conversion from matter-to-energy has zero need for “Radioactivity”. This is because The Energy of Supreme Intelligenceis The Magic Bullet.
Be wary that the above is merely Mumbo-Jumbo unless self is able to realise its veracity, Knowledge/some-Truth being a-Potential/an-Accumulation, the aim of Knowledge being [The Flow/”Tao”/Kinesis of] Its Empowerment. If so, what is the use/aim of the above Yakity-Yakking? To offer some kind of confidence, aka to remove The Gambling aspect, wherever possible, that the chaos one is constantly reminded-of is merely Of Energy Transformation, the latter being of Zero Relevance when The Energy Creator, aka Divinity, exists. So long as Cosmic Dust is able to morph from Consciousness to SuperConsciousness, Evolution progresses, and all without the prowess of changing complete outfit within the confines of a telephone booth.
How does one realises what, say, a Dog, is but the reverse is not true? This is because a human has the ability to realise Conscience whereas The Dog has no such “luck” – unless Conscience is “bad luck”. You know, when Hypocrisy is one’s Conscience.
One fundamental question is, “What happens when The Magic Bullet debases like some barefaced lying politiko” much like when Truth is owned by UnTruth. When Might-is-Right is Of Malevolence [as It always will be]? When Truth is for owning and not for becoming, that is like Gazillionaires needing another odd gazillion to add to their armoury, “Beecuz, ‘fink what U can do with another odd gazillion, eh?”. Not when, “Wants, in general, are not satiable”. Then the desire to own is merely some destructive /regressive/devolutionary desire.
When a Ding Dong Merrily on High is “Multi-faceted”, Control is merely Its Abandonment suppressed with Abandonment being merely Its Control expressed. You know, when Half-Full/”Kapitalism” is actually Half-Empty/”Kommunism”. That of the Projection of Thought, aka “Human Intelligence”, aka Stupidity/Aggression/Egotism.
Those who self-certify as being The Already-Perfect/Number-One need to be conscious and be aware that Addiction will become Regret after “Death”. This is why when there is “Birth”, “Death” is merely Birth’s consequence. Without one single exception for the simple reason that “Death” is merely The Reversion to Spirituality/The-Singularity-of-Purpose. When Knowledge is merely Projecting/Divining The-Future, that is merely Gambling but “owning”/justifying the activity via trivialising it as, “What-Makes-The-World-Go-Round”.
No wonder the main export of “Democracy & Freedom” is The Turnkey Casino Operation, aka Taxation & Credit. A very culpable Tentacle of The Bookie. More alarming is the fact that The Vast Majority of Humans are Casino Addicts, Addiction being the state when Knowing-It-All is unable to counter said Addiction. This is due to Greed-Fear “successfully” masquerading as the dapper, knowledgable, sophisticated and fully-fragrant Count de Money.
As such, it will be benevolent to realise that being unable to overwhelm, say, “alcohol”, means being denied the addiction to said alcohol, a reality The Vast Majority of “Well-Oiled Muskles” Worshippers are unable to realise. Those who are easily turned Wild-N-Wanton/”Barbaric” are those who lack 2 vital genes, a lacking which they are able to [re-]gain once their desire is changed from being Selfish/Relative/Innately-Taking to being Selfless/Real/Innately-Gifting.
Thank you for the article.
Sadly those with chronic pain, fibromyagia, or golf war syndrome who refuse to get on their knees before their corporate masters are denied pain relief except for these horribly ineffective medications that place your health at significant risk. Sign a demeaning doctor/patient contract promising not to engage in behavior that is already restricted by criminal code, submit to a random drug screen regimen not validated through legal writ, court order or signed warrant and the doctor will then and only then treat your uncompromising agony.
They have cruelly made acceptance of intrusive policy a stipulation of providing adequate medical services. What I find entertaining is how these creeps contend it’s the law. The truth is it’s not! In formulating and adopting this policy no supportive legislation was ever solicited or lobbied for. The RECOMMENDATIONS the industry received where designed as a safety net for physicians who because of a growing stigma were reluctant to prescribe opiates to patients who really needed them. In fact most states recognizing the patients need for relief above all else established laws like California’s Heath and Safety Code’s Patients Bill of Rights that requires under criminal penalty doctors adequately treat pain or refer the patient to a doctor who will. The amazing aspect is that any criminal violations are solely the offense of the individual physician and not the healthcare provider. Their legal teams lie to doctors, most of who believe their actions are shielded by malpractice insurance. This is not at all the case. The courts hold doctors responsible for the commission of their own CRIMES. It doesn’t matter the devil told them to do it so to speak.
Ironically all these recommendations from the governing agencies clearly suggest that at least one of three indicators of abuse be present before requiring contracts and drug screens. The Healthcare industry saw this as an opportunity to save the increasingly costly expense of providing opiates to those who most require their use, chronic pain sufferers. Knowing that statistically these patients are three times less likely to abuse their medication they impose a blanket policy covering all long term therapy. The policy was created not as a deterrent to prescription abuse but rather to construct an environment of suspicion and inconvenience. The humiliation of suspicion based stipulations on treatment is designed to dissuade patients from seeking treatment. It is so inhumane.
The good news though is the industry is about to get sued into bankruptcy for their transgression. There are enough of us out here who have begun working in unison to rescind this injustice at Kaiser. Not a class action suit but instead we intend to all file separate court cases. Where violations of criminal statute occur any mandatory arbitration requirement goes right out the window. The violation of the Americans with Disability Act qualifies each victim of their abuse for their day in federal court.
Seeking Justice
Excuse me? Read the label. IBUPROFIN is a another anti-inflammatory medication. Like Asprin and Naproxen, it is not something that one takes willy-nilly. It will thin the blood in the process of reducing inflammation. So, from a scientific perspective, the alarm bells are fake info. It is the HUMAN who consumes the medication too long and for the wrong reasons that causes the problem. The government is probably creating a problem with the excuse to remove it from the market, and thereby remove a very helpful over the counter medication…as the Culling Of The Herd continues. Stop the hype. Get the facts.
Oh, and by the way, your doctors are LICENSED by the states, and will almost always medicate according to government mandates. Why? They want the obamacare insurance money. Be smart. Be safe.
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Freelance Investigative Science Reporter since 1996
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wasn’t here on bin just recently a BIN article that next to Heroine, painkillers are being the most abused and causes the biggest deaths through overdose….
that might be a reason
big pharma wants all the business, insofar as they want all people on drugs like the highly addictive oxycontin or other strong opiates. a customer for life.
over the counter meds are under attack because they do the trick, when not abused, and are not addictive.
better aspirin or advil as opposed to heroin.
I never take painkillers. Painkillers don’t make pain go away. They just shut down signals of your body. Without painkillers pain goes away faster. I know this for fact. I’ve broken bones many times. The times they gave me painkillers the pain lasted for days. Another time I refused the painkillers the pain was gone the next day!