How Big Pharma Gets Dangerous Drugs Approved | System Error

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The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a history of controversy. It’s been blamed for not acting fast enough. It’s also been blamed for rushing products to market.

The FDA has a tough job. It regulates a powerful industry with a lot of money — and questionable practices. With American distrust for Big Pharma at an all-time high, the FDA’s role is more important than ever.

This is how the FDA could be doing a better job at protecting Americans from the greed of some pharmaceutical companies.

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27 COMMENTS

  1. Sadly though there are more people that believe in the pills and liquids big pharma offers in promises to help them then people who know that these unnatural products are deadly.

  2. FDA has a even tougher job when there employees are paid off to approve medications that do more harm than good. The united states has been sold out! Not on accident, but on purpose.. that’s the sad thing.

  3. We don't have an opioid epidemic. We do have an issue with China flooding fentanyl into the US but that's not the same as an opioid crisis purported by pharmaceutical companies. I would also wager that relaxing opioid regulations and laws would be better destabilizing the black market that exists.

  4. Thanks for your video to let people all over the world know the reality of how inside US gov. has black images by lobbying with the big farms from " foods to drugs " ! When innocent people consume those dirty foods , getting Chronic diseases then they need to be cured with those full of side effects drugs . We suspect that where coronavirus comes from ?
    Something like what mafias / gangsters govern the whole world  !

  5. We are getting closer and closer to bringing this to light, 20 years I’ve been waiting and it’s showing up on YouTube, keep pushing it to main stream media
    🙂🙂🙂💪💪💪

  6. I generally like vice videos but this one has me especially triggered because it appears heavily one-sided.

    The people who have OD'd on oxycontin.. was that the only drug in their system? How do we know they OD'd on the drug? Who's completing the autopsies and what are their credentials?

    Why aren't these questions addressed in this video?

    Why is it that there are some doctors out there who say heroin is incredibly safe and what do they have to say regarding the opioid epidemic?

    Sorry but what's going on in this video certainly isn't journalism… I would suspect Hamilton Morris wouldn't approve of the s*** either.

    VICE youve lost a lot of reputation putting out trash like this.

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