INSIDE PHARMA

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The rise and inevitable fall of the pharmaceutical industry....as we now know it...

The rise and inevitable fall of the pharmaceutical industry....as we now know it...

Nothing lasts forever...

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Pharma’s been a terrible disaster

All good things must come to an end, or so the saying goes. What’s been good for the pharmaceutical industry, though, has been a terrible disaster for the world.

The years of skyrocketing drug prices are just the tip of a massive iceberg. We see $bns spent pushing brands on healthcare professionals, the many clinical trial failures, $bn litigation over damaging side-effects, me-too drugs, shortages, counterfeiting, price gouging—and now SARS-Cov-2 injections!

When is it going to stop?

You are probably wondering if it will ever change? Praying for it to end, even?

There’s good news on that score—nothing lasts forever. Hopefully, I can begin to prove that to you. Take a look at this previous Newsletter:

INSIDE PHARMA
DISRUPTING PHARMA—ONLY POLITICIANS CAN DO IT, HERE’S WHY AND HOW
If you missed Part II, find it here. It finished with: Part III will cover the painful analysis of how this all came to pass… THE PAINFULL ANALYSIS It all started with Glaxo’s success inadvertently creating an illusion that fooled an entire industry, including itself…
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3 years ago · 4 likes · Hedley Rees

You will read about the battle of two anti-ulcer drugs that sparked the ‘blockbuster era’.

This event is what did all the damage and these are the components of the damage creation:

  1. Poorly characterised molecular compounds (basket cases) launched into developme…

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