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Mind Map by Nathan Lin, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Nathan Lin
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Big Pharma
- Martin Shkreli
- Sells Daraprim
- For Malaria and HIV
- For Malaria and HIV
- One of America's most hated
- $13.5 -> $750
- $13.5 -> $750
- Hedge fund manager
- Wants to maximise profit
- Capitalism
- Makes money over illnesses
- How is this achieved?
- Via misinformation
- Oxycontin
- Oxycontin
- Influencing
regulators
- Via misinformation
- How is this achieved?
- Makes money over illnesses
- Capitalism
- Wants to maximise profit
- Sells Daraprim
- Controversy: They have a lot of power as they can choose who lives and who dies
- High cost of medicine makes it inaccessible
- Big Pharma are allowed to influence FDA
- Big pharma bought influence into the US congress too
- US lawmakers allow this system to occur (Pharma affecting its regulators)
- Big pharmas wrote checks to US politicians
- The Big pharma and health medicine industry is the biggest lobbying industry
- By law: Big pharmas can set the prices of their drugs, no negotiations
- By law: Big pharmas can set the prices of their drugs, no negotiations
- The Big pharma and health medicine industry is the biggest lobbying industry
- Big pharmas contribute to campaign donations
- Hire lobbyists + Lawyers to squash any challenges/suing
- Big pharmas wrote checks to US politicians
- US lawmakers allow this system to occur (Pharma affecting its regulators)
- Big pharma bought influence into the US congress too
- High cost of medicine makes it inaccessible
- COVID Pandemic
- Boosters may become a reality
- Pharma's are benefitting
- Blackmail governments
- Maximise prices for profit
- Makes it inaccessible to some countries
- Fuelling inequity
- Fuelling inequity
- Makes it inaccessible to some countries
- Blackmail governments
- Boosters may become a reality
- US's Opioid epidemic
- Purdue Pharma
- Oxycontin
- Claimed by pharma as not being addictive
- Pharms sent sales representatives
on opioid not being addictive + it
being okay to be prescribed in
higher doses
- Doctors prescribed it to millions
- Millions of people became addicted to it
- Johnson & Johnson + Teva were other pharmas' also guilty
- Thousands of opioid drug deaths
- When Purdue was sued, they cleared bankruptcy and paid a measly fine, no jail time
- When Purdue was sued, they cleared bankruptcy and paid a measly fine, no jail time
- Thousands of opioid drug deaths
- Johnson & Johnson + Teva were other pharmas' also guilty
- Pharma made billions
- Millions of people became addicted to it
- Doctors prescribed it to millions
- Never held clinical trials to show this - Purdue lied
- Pharms sent sales representatives
on opioid not being addictive + it
being okay to be prescribed in
higher doses
- An Opioid, a painkiller
- Claimed by pharma as not being addictive
- Oxycontin
- Purdue Pharma
- Big Pharma pushing unproven cures
- Use the help of regulators who are friends
- Aduhelm Drug
- Pharma: Biogen
- FDA approved
- Claimed as a treatment for AD
- Not enough evidence of this claim
- All FDA's 11 advisors were against this
- Biogen had a close relationship with FDA officials
- FDA still approved the drug
- 3 FDA advisors resigned in protest
- FDA is supposed to be a watchdog for BIG pharmas
- It is like a union, for the interests of customers
- FDA shouldn't have such a close
relationship with companies it should
be regulating
- 45% of FDA's budget comes from industry (pharmas) paying to apply for FDA approval
- How can the FDA remain impartial?
- How can the FDA remain impartial?
- 45% of FDA's budget comes from industry (pharmas) paying to apply for FDA approval
- It is like a union, for the interests of customers
- 3 FDA advisors resigned in protest
- FDA still approved the drug
- Biogen had a close relationship with FDA officials
- All FDA's 11 advisors were against this
- Not enough evidence of this claim
- 56K per year
- Pharma: Biogen
- Use the help of regulators who are friends
- A monopoly
- The new Drug cartel/mafia
- The new Drug cartel/mafia
- Set prices
- Influence policy makers
- Use lawyers to squash competition
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