>>9231835
Yep. There is a lot that is hidden.
Thalidomide is a very cheap drug that is used for treatment in some types of cancer. A trade name, Revlimid, was Rx to my father in law at a quoted price of ….. $10,000/mth.
Let that sink in. $10,000 per month.
I suggested they go to the VA hospital near them and see about getting the Rx filled there. FIL did not qualify bc the VA has needs-based testing, but the Pharmacist there stated that Revlimid costs the VA under $10/mth.
I sourced Revlimid to the manufacturer in India and the cost to ship to him direct would have been $15/mth. FIL refused to take it, even though I confirmed with the VA Pharmacist that it was the exact drug the VA was using, and that it came from India. FIL went without bc he couldn't afford $10K/mth. Pure EVIL.
Another one that upsets me is Naltrexone/Naltima for alcohol, drug and sugar addiction. It is widely used in Europe in alcohol treatment. It is not widely used in the US. Instead, they push Contrave, which is a combo of Wellbutrin and the Naltrexone. Several genetically related family members have had really bad sides effects to Wellbutrin, so I didn't want to use it and I couldn't afford the expensive Contrave, bc it is Rx only and not covered by most insurances (including ours). Several people I know and trust used Naltrexone with good result for weight loss, so I did my own digging and ordered some bc my MD refused to prescribe it for me, would only give me a Rx for Contrave. It was the only thing that helped. The sugar cravings would be so intense it would wake me up at night.
Think how many lives could be saved if Naltrexone was used for opioid addiction in this country. It is cheap, and effective. Breaks my heart.
Cancer …. there are so many cheap, effective drugs that have been proven successful in cancers, but because there is no $$$ in it for big Pharma, it isn't prescribed. Doctors prescribe medications off label all the time, but lately they have been threatened if they use meds "off label".
It is up to us to demand full transparency and change.
Fenbendazole and Menbendazole have both been studied at MD Anderson and Johns Hopkins as well as other places for cancer treatment and had good results. The reason it went no further is that no one was willing to pay for the expensive human clinical trials for it to get FDA approval for cancer treatment. We should be using NIH to fund these types of trials and it should be made available as a treatment at minimal cost to families because it is off patent, and we would have paid as taxpayers for the clinical trials for FDA approval. But there would be no money in it for the Faucis and scum like him in it. It is up to us to demand change.