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Commercial for work safety by WSIB Ontario which is the government agency that overseas Ontario’s workplace safety education. It contains graphic injury scenes so don’t watch if you have a weak heart. 1 videoclip of WSIB work safety after the jump. |
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December 1st, 2007 at 11:44 pm
now thats what i call…
a sticky situation
December 1st, 2007 at 11:48 pm
come to think of it… all this does for me is make me NOT want to get a job in the cooking industry
December 3rd, 2007 at 8:03 am
No one would argue that workplace safety is not important. However, these gory ads are an elaborate social marketing campaign orchestrated to manipulate the public into talking about accidents, safety and prevention rather than talking about the failure of workers compensation boards to compensate the victims. WCBs in each Canadian province (and in the US) have come under a lot of scrutiny for their avoidance of paying fair compensation to disabled workers. The fact that people are talking about the ads rather than the dysfunctionality of the WCB system shows that this orchestrated social manipulation campaign is working.
WCBs in Canada and the US represent employers (the only ones paying into the fund). Therefore WCBs will do whatever they can to lower fees for corporations. One way is by denying compensation payments to disabled workers. But this would be socially unacceptable unless the public can also be manipulated into believing that the worker is somehow negligent or at fault for causing the accident. In this social marketing campaign, WCBs are subtly adopting the language of the anti-drunk-driver campaign – ” zero tolerance” “negligence”, etc. to manipulate public attitudes towards injured workers. They also use the term “accidents” rather than “injuries” to take the focus away from the person and onto the event. These ads, and other orchestrated ‘social engineering’ techniques lay the foundation for WCBs to justify a reduction in injury compensation payments to disabled workers by manipulating public attitudes toward disabled workers.
Those injured workers in the videos would realistically spend the rest of their lives in poverty fighting the WCB for compensation.
The way to reduce injuries is to make companies accountable for workplace safety violations through realistic fees, not protect unsafe companies from these higher fees by denying disabled workers’ claims.
If you think the WSIB’s ads are scary, check out the Canadian Injured Workers Society at http://www.ciws.ca for a real eye-opener!
December 7th, 2007 at 1:56 am
[...] to the previous PSA, this is another one of those WSIB (Workplace Safety and Insurance Board) PSAs from Canada. Graphic [...]
January 9th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Intresting rant…….Did anyone know that the amount of denied claims in Ontario is only about 4% if all the paperwork is there for the Board to rule on a claim. This does not take into consideration of the people who fail to send in their paperwork.
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:49 am
WSiB Ontario – a criminal Agency!
I want to express my strongest protest against the way WSiB is handling my case.
Agency established to assist General Public and protect / assist it in time of desperation /suffer and misfortune, become profit oriented identity placing well being of victims on back burner of its activity / objectives.
Criminal Corporations have substantial influence over WSiB’s activities/processing of claims.
WSiB acts from position of power (criminal immunity) and further victimizes already suffering people.
Through out duration of processing it does infringe on criminal and sadistic tendencies.
It is beyond comprehension, that individuals like me, with life threatening medical conditions (due to criminal negligence of employers) are deprived of/from urgent medical attention and financial support they deserve due to WSiB’s investigation of victim’s employment and medical records back to Stone Age (in chase for any and all excuses to limit victim’s entitlements).
It is paradoxical, that diagnoses /conclusions are being made by some of WSiB’s personnel with out any medical / investigative knowledge /skills. Victim’s evidence submissions, Reports of WSiB’s qualified and professional investigators are not enough to adjudicate obvious cases.
Such untimely manner of claims processing further deteriorates victim’s state of health.
It is outrageous, that WSiB investigation focuses on victims instead of denouncing and panelizing Corporations which violated all regulations of the civilized society and compromised lives of many people.
This is very serious systemic problem and needs to be addressed immediately.
It is easy to be with out any compassion in cases involving other people, but in life any thing can happen to any one and corrupted, dysfunctional system may victimize the very people operating it (the system) at the very moment.
What goes around comes around.
It is important for WSiB to become protector of Constitutional, Labour and Civil Rights in Ontario (with in its mandate).
I expect WSiB to be fully compliant / accountable with Code of Ethics, Justice and Moral Values.
During my awaiting for WSiB’s help I am being with out any medications, any food and being repossessed from every thing I worked for trough my 35 + years of hard work.
Regards,
Andrzej
July 30th, 2010 at 4:28 am
“Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool…
Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.”
Today, July 29 / 2010 I have received from S. Bennet (Appeals Resolution Officer- Appeals Branch) WSiB another negative decision concerning my objection to WSiB’s previous decision. This is yet another example of very refined and LEGISLATED banditry against injured workers by WSiB.
In short form S. Bennet collaborated over issues/ merit of my Claim in criminal manner omitting critical information, misinterpreting / disseminating other, not reviewing my previous submissions, not including new, not resource to expert sources for supportive info nor to chronology of administrative processes, only selecting sentences supporting own agendas etc. and every thing is done under umbrella of legislated criminal immunity and other far reaching legislatives designed to torment, torture, abuse, defraud defenseless injured workers with out any rights/ avenues of recourse!
WSiB and Government Agencies in question instead of providing safety net / insurance for/to injured workers created parasitic / mafia entity that victimizes, plunders, destroys, for own gain injured workers, businesses and whole population obligated to sustain (by Tax / imposed financial contributions) criminal, predatory / terror Agency(s) …..:).
The CRIMINAL NET INCLUDES (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) Workplace Safety & Insurance Board, Labour Relations Board (Ministry of Labour), Ontario Ombudsman, Fair Practices Commission, Worker Adviser, Human Rights Commission, Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, (GOVERNMENT Agencies ).
All those institutions are terror Agencies governing them selves with out any scrutiny by independent Auditors / Public Inquiries. Those Agencies caused alteration in the state of my body / organs, interrupting / disturbing the performance of the vital functions (chronic pain and much , much more etc.).
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (the “Tribunal”) has been given discretionary powers to a degree unprecedented amongst Ontario administrative tribunals, except perhaps by the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) –which has direct impact on other Agencies. This may reflect the historically-close relationship between employment and labour relations law (on the one hand), and human rights law (on the other), but for whatever reason it is a firmly established legal reality.
The breadth of these legal powers has several dimensions: broad procedural rule-making power, broad discretion to vary from the Rules, broad remedial discretion, and a broad policy mandate. Additionally it has a range of novel evidence-gathering authorities unknown to other administrative tribunals and a range of other unique and even experimental powers. All of these aspects of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario are considered in this chapter.
The “Fettering Discretion” Laws/ Regulations/Rules introduced by Government to improve Judicial, Administrative processes are utilized by those agencies to interpret (misinterpret) any thing and all in bias / own manner allowing criminal Agencies to evolve ever more deviant/ criminal and away from needs of injured workers / General Public.
WSiB and other Agencies in question operate beyond / above provisions of Bill-C45, Criminal Code, Canadian Constitution, all legislatives protecting Individuals / Population, above Charter of Human Rights, trampling Employment Act/Employment Standards etc. and are not audited / scrutinized by any Politician nor investigated by OPP / RCMP!
SEEMS LIKE SMALL CRIME IS ON FRONT AND CENTER OF NEWS RELIESES.
Why such overwhelming organized crime against injured workers / Population goes on with out interruption, undisturbed, refining its methodology/ ideology, tools, consolidating its influences in drive to be a hegemony / terror entity destroying fabric / organism of Ontarians!
April 9, 2008 – 4:00pm ,NDP MPP Paul Miller today demanded that the McGuinty government take immediate action – including the immediate removal of the chair and board – to fix the glaring problems at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB).
WSiB’s “PROGRAMS ARE DESIGN TO FURTHER VICTIMIZE INJURED WORKERS AND TO TRANSFER THEM AS FAST AS POSSIBLE FROM WSiB’s PAYROLL IN TO TAX payer’s payroll and to TERRORIZE ALL WHO THERE TO SUPPORT INJURED WORKERS ( INCLUDING Doctors / health providers etc.)
Almost All ADJUDICATORS, ADVISERS, IN WSiB, WORKER ADVISER, FAIRNESS COMMISSION etc. ARE PREDATORS, PARASITES being pay by the very injured workers/ their families (people of Ontario) to do such carnage in society.
WSiB acts from position of power (criminal immunity) and further victimizes already suffering people. Through out duration of processing of Claims it does infringe on criminal and sadistic tendencies …:).
In Ontario WSiB commits crimes against INJURED WORKERS!
Despite fact, that Government Agencies (and politicians ) were aware of the situation for many years did not do any thing to rehabilitate the system!
Lately MPP for Whitby-Oshawa Christine Elliott expressed her dip concerns about WSiB.
WSiB Ontario – a criminal/ terror Agency!
WORNING TO ALL THOSE WHO ARE THERE TO SUPPORT CLAIMS OF INJURED WORKERS.
DOCTORS, HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS TERRORIZED BY WSiB WITH LEGISLATED CONSEQUENCES FOR SUPPORTING INJURED WORKERS.
WSiB HAS THE POWER TO RE- INTERPRET/ QUESTOION DOCTORS AND HEALTH PROVIDERS DIAGNOSIS AND OCUSE ANY ONE OF Fraud and non-compliance. No wonder 99% of my Doctors refused to generate any records of my injuries or sabotaged them or strait forward falsified them.
“Fraud and non-compliance: definitions, penalties, and reporting.
What can I do if I suspect that a patient, an employer, a supplier, or another health care practitioner is not dealing honestly with the WSIB?
You can use our toll-free action line or e-mail address to report suspected cases of non-compliance and fraud.
In 1997 the WSIB announced a Zero Tolerance Strategy to ensure compliance and combat fraud. The Strategy included increased resources, a “tips ”Action Line, and the authority to conduct surveillance. The WSIB will identify non-compliance, fraud and irregularities by workers, employers, providers and suppliers and take appropriate action. This may result in charges under Sec.149 (4) (submitting false or misleading statements) of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, or Sec.380 (fraud) of the Criminal Code.
“When reporting fraud or non-compliant behavior you are not required to provide your name, address, or any other information that may identify you”.
What constitutes an offence in dealing with WSIB?
It is an offence when a health care provider or supplier intentionally does any of the following.
What is the penalty for submitting false or misleading statements?
Conviction can result in the following penalties:
• For an individual: A fine not to exceed $25,000 and/or a jail term of up to six months.
• For a corporation: A fine not to exceed $100,000.
(Sec.158 (1) of the Act)
The court may also order restitution of the full amount of money obtained by commission of the offence (Sec.149 (5) of the Act).
Would a conviction under the Workplace Safety Insurance Act or the Criminal Code affect my license to practice?
In cases where a health care practitioner is convicted, the WSIB notifies the appropriate regulatory body and provides a factual summary. The
regulatory body will take whatever action it deems necessary.
Want to get involved in preventing fraud in Canada’s healthcare system?
The Canadian Health Care Anti-Fraud Association acts on behalf of public and private sector healthcare organizations interested in preventing fraud in the Canadian healthcare environment.”
In Ontario WSiB commits crimes against INJURED WORKERS!
Despite fact, that Government Agencies (and politicians ) were aware of the situation for many years did not do any thing to rehabilitate the system (provided cover up for those activities).
People in position of power are promoting (become accessory) to Domestic terrorism by WSiB!!!.
Government Agencies refused to report crimes by WSiB and other Agencies against General Public to Police.
Many key Government Agencies are dysfunctional and criminal.
“Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool…
Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.”
WSiB by its incompetence, luck of education / professionalism / expertise and criminal orientation as a Policy, totally ignores / is oblivious about side effects of treatments and medications they forcibly subject injured workers to undergo, additionally deteriorates injured workers condition and it is imposed on “victims” in criminally sadistic manner etc. A number of medications intended to treat psychiatric disorders are themselves capable of causing psychiatric adverse effects. Unfortunately,
these medication-induced adverse effects can be mistaken for a lack of therapeutic efficacy, leading to increased dose prescribing, leading to even more adverse effects. In addition, a number of medications not intended to treat psychiatric disorders are capable of causing psychiatric adverse effects..
WSiB forcibly (by many means of coercions/ CRIMINAL MEANS etc.) forces injured workers to undergo unnecessary medical treatments (surgical proceedings, pharmacological treatments etc.) which often tremendously deteriorate injured workers conditions –often causing additional and irreversible damage. WSiB a criminal / terror Agency tormenting injured workers of Ontario and does it in legalized manner.
How come WSiB ( “INSURANCE AGENCY” ) MANAGED TO LEGISLATE CRIMINAL IMMUNITY AND MANY OTHER FAR REACHEING LEGISLATIVES ALLOWING AGENCY TO DO SURVELIANCE, TO INPOSE RULES ON INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESSES, TO FORCE INJURED WORKERS TO BE SUBJECTED TO UNNECESSARY MEDICAL / PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENTS etc.
ORGANIZED AND LEGALIZED CRIME!!!!!!!!!
These people (Mahoney and many his subordinates – WSiB) seem to know exactly what kind of work to go into. WSIB is just a game where to have to know how to game the system. Of course, this does not apply to all people but there are some who are able to collect even while working under the table. While we have people running the show who just make a joke of the whole system, is it not a power trip to refuse someone who is legitimately in need.
Allow me with respect to speak directly to you Mr. Steve Mahoney- If the accusations are true, you breached the trust of your office and taxpayers of Ontario. Be accountable for your actions! Do the moral and ethical thing and resign!
Mr. Mahoney expensed thousands of dollars for limos until they finally gave him a car,” said Elliott – MPP.
He filed expenses for meals where he had no meetings, and travel to China, Australia, Hong Kong and elsewhere. He traveled so much, he got lost in Myrtle Beach, where he billed four days for one day of meetings, and then expensed a GPS system, she said (Elliott).
This is inexcusable. Who does he think he is riding around in a limo? He works for WSIB! Ohh, Mr.Hot Shot. It’s hilarious to think that those who had there WSIB claims turned down while this schmuck is riding around in a limo thinking he’s a somebody.”
The problem with our governments are – they are not governments, they are organized ongoing criminal endeavors, contrary to the criminal code. Surely we have enough evidence by now to bust this racket and send a few party leaders to prison? Where are the RCMP and their tasers when we need them?
He (Mahoney) says we’re getting excellent value for our money. Er rather I would say Steve is getting excellent value from other peoples money don’t ya think! Have another shrimp cocktail Steve. Have you reconsidered reinstating the cancelled retiree dinner ( you know the one where you charge the retirees $15/meal). How can you cancel a dinner that in large part is paid for out of the pockets of the retirees? How about skipping one trip overseas and giving them their earned dinner. And how about paying for the entire meal. How cheap and small can you get? Yup you’re rotten to the core Steve and it shows. Shame.
Politicians have created a system that benefits their relatives and friends; shouldn’t everyone have equal access to these jobs? 100 thousand a year, no education required, no technical skills required and obviously no experience required.
This is how we change the system, we expose their secrets, play their game, we run for office.
So smart people reserve the right to abuse other and take advantage? Really ..be-careful. I do not think it has anything to do with being smarter ..it has more to do with Morals. ethics and accountability , to which some people are lacking. But more often than not are placed in positions of thust …and become empowered by bad faith laws and they use that power to feed off the weak.
All WSiB’S money should be available on line for taxpayers to see & all monies should be audited & made available for taxpayers to see & question their political reps about any part or all of it.
The problem with organizations like the WSIB is that the executives want salaries and entitlements equal to those of their private sector counterparts, but lower level employees, such as Adjudicators who only require a Grade 12 education, expect way more compensation than their private sector counterparts. Let all of the middle management and lower ranks at the WSIB take pay cuts that equal those paid in private insurance companies and then they will be free to pay the ransoms demanded by their executives. Oh by the way, that 4 Billion dollars a year comes straight from the pockets of Ontario’s employers, Tax payers and it is about time that the WSIB is stopped from squandering that money on their overpaid workforce.
I find it very interesting how they claim that the WSIB is NOT funded by the taxpayers, but by employers. Who did the over $2 billion that they are in the red come from? The Ontario Taxpayers!? Who pays for the items these employers sell or their services? The Ontario Taxpayers!? Who makes the money for these employers? The Employees!? Ontario Taxpayers!? Who controls the WSIB? The elected officials of the province paid by the Tax Payers!”
If you fire an executive you get billed 8 million dollars! Yes, that is a termination bonus charged to tax payers.:-!!!!!!!!!!!!) -these monies, paid to the WSIB by employers, are mandated by provincial legislation. That makes it public money – and under the purview of the Provincial government.
Damn it all – these thieves should be charged criminally. And as for policies which permit out of line expenses – which apparently have been changed, but have permitted the WSIB head to state he’s in line with regs – NOT GOOD ENOUGH!
I’d love to hear an explanation of why this guy ( Mahoney) bought a GPS and just how it has anything to do with the public’s business.
Another example of a (rich) government official (Mahoney)abusing his position !
To be rid of this maggot you would likely be looking at more than $1M for severance but maybe that’s what he wants. He’s probably said I’m going to suck all that I can until I get caught. Then they will fire me for abusing the system and I’II take the millions in severance!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sad to see abuse like this since unfortunately it’s only the tip of the iceberg!
OLG, eHealth, Montreal Mayor, LHSC head, the list will be never ending.
It’s like an episode of Hogan’s Heroes “and the commandant is sleeping.”
August 4th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
WCB employees paid to commit fraud.
For most Canadians it would come as a big shock to find that the government(s) runs organizations like the Workers Compensation Board for the sole objective of cost reduction for big business, with itself as one of the largest employers taking full advantage of the conflict of interest.
The Federal Government instituted the Meredith Principle as law into Canada approximately 80 years ago. Today, even though the Federal Government passed on the authority to manage Workers Compensation to the provinces, it remains itself also one of the greatest benefactors of the new perverted version of Workers Compensation.
Today there is hardly a trace left of the principals set out by Chief Justice of Ontario, Sir William Meredith. It would not be an exaggeration to say that they have taken this legislation, turned it inside out to become a one way street to ensure injured workers have no rights at all. Workers Compensations today uses its own kangaroo courts to insure every right injured worker had are decimated.
The four parts of the principles set out by Chief Justice of Ontario, Sir William Meredith are that employers bear the direct cost of compensation, receiving protection from lawsuits arising from injuries; workers give up the right to sue their employers and receive compensation benefits at no cost for work-related injuries; negligence and fault for the cause of injury are not considerations; and a system administered by a neutral agency would have exclusive jurisdiction over all matters arising out of the enabling legislation. This neutral agency became the Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB).
Today before an injured worker even gets to where they are allowed to ask the Supreme Court for justice, every appeal in the WCB kangaroo courts must be exhausted, one thing is certain, that by the time injured workers are entitled to ask for justice, the injured worker will be either dead, or dead broke. The time that passes can easily take up to or exceed a decade of abuse, a psychological, and financial bashing that is unparallel in any other form of law today.
Nearly every lawyer today rejects claims for the following reasons, first that WCB law does not comply or need to comply with the standards of our real courts of law. The second is that it’s a complete waste of a lawyers time, and clients money, there is no chance of winning. There is however the odd exception to the rule, and that’s what is thrown if the face of every critic of the WCB.
One lawyer wrote to the BC Bar asking for someone willing to take on a case where fighting WCB was like having gone into an Alice in Wonderland form of judicial law. The complete absence of any resemblance to law whatsoever, where WCB makes up and changes the rules, ignores its own rules, and imposes a twisted versions of rules on any lawyer foolish enough to stand up for injured workers.
In a nutshell WCB does the following, in about 90% or more of all of its claims it pays in full with no complaints, these consist of everything from a sliver of wood in the hand to minor cuts and bruises. All those minor claims are WCB’s claim to fame that they are doing their job and doing it well.
Now on the other hand, injuries like Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome or other debilitating injuries that last for decades, or even for life, those are the costly claims, and are also the claims WCB has no hesitation to spend a million dollars to insure a claimant will not set a president by getting what is owed to him/her.
The crux of the matter lies in long term and permanently injured workers, everything else WCB talks about is smoke shows to divert the public from the real truth.
Well if what I am about to say might offend you, too bad, we as a society need to wake up, grow up, and take some responsibility for the mess we have allowed to exist in our country. It’s your fault we are in this mess because you and your neighbor never spoke up when someone you knew got shafted by the WCB.
My fellow Canadians, you are a bunch of idiots if you think, we as a society can gain dignity abroad fighting the Muslims in Afghanistan while on the home front we treat our injured workers as bad as the Taliban treat their women.
Let me say this, do you think the same idiots who designed WCB, will actually make an exception for our permanently disabled veterans? If you do you better crawl back under the rock you have been hiding under. Do some research; they are already being tossed to skid row.
Pardon me for not doing the “heel toe dosey doe” for the Liberal in Alberta who was honest enough to tell the story about how the WCB employees get paid to screw injured workers over.
Pardon the blunt language but common courtesy in the past and present, has meant inhuman treatment for fellow injured workers to a society too busy with their own self preservation to do anything about it.
Is there not some bitter irony that this story exposed by the Liberal Party in Alberta comes hot on the heals of the Patrick Clayton story. Will someone wake up before we have to nominate Patrick Clayton as the only man willing to stand up and tell the truth about what is going on inside the Workers Compensation system, not only in Alberta, but all of Canada? Sorry make that two people in Alberta now, let’s not forget Hugh MacDonald.
Well it was good of the Alberta Liberals to expose this crime, only the Liberals should have said that Patrick Clayton indeed had little options left and the path he chose and may have been for him the only option he could find left. This admission by the Alberta Liberals also gives powerful credibility to the claims made by Patrick Clayton and that indeed all he really wanted was to find a way to expose this story, he was a first hand witness, he was a victim of crime.
Ask any injured worker who has tried to tell their story to the press, and found they were just banging their head against a brick wall. Patrick Clayton was right in regards to the fact it was the only way people would listen to what he had to say.
The second issue is, where is the call for a police investigation into this crime, and while they are at it, they can find this crime duplicated in each and every province and territory in Canada? It’s a Pandora’s box that nobody has guts enough to take on because to do so would jeopardize a relationship with big business and industry, not to mention the cost of having government employees.
Now I also have to ask what gives with the names of our political parties. Has anyone besides me noticed that when it comes to shafting injured workers, all three major party names are very big on the list of making promises to treat injured workers fairly, then in return you might well have urinated down their throats if your actions could speak for you.
Take for example in British Columbia the Liberal Party had one member in particular who really road the band wagon of justice for injured workers. Do you know what the Liberals did once elected? After all once you defeat the existing government, what else can you do to put the truth about WCB back into hiding?
The Liberals did what they all do in every province when the WCB’s looking like the criminals they really are; they had a review, and guess who represented the big business in this review?
Well it was none other than Allen Hunt, and guess who the Liberals hired to implement the findings of that review?
Well to bad you can’t have Charles Manson as head of your justice committee, using your logic it would have made very good sense.
Isn’t it amazing when you have a government that hires one of two disputing parties to write the new rules, insanity obviously is hitting new heights and to this day no one has had balls enough to do anything about it?
Look again at the words in the Meredith Principle Agreement and try find any form of neutral party in the name Allen Hunt.
Oh, by the way, check up and find out if Allen Hunt is even a Canadian, he was not at the time our governments hired him. And pray what the hell were the Liberals in British Columbia thinking when they hired an American to re-write Canadian Law?
The citizens of Canada got what we paid for, it’s called “Screwed” and corporations all across Canada were laughing all the way to the bank. Its not just Canadian corporations, the vast benefactor of these new WCB policies befit foreign investors even more, as today the vast majority of big business is majority owned outside of Canada.
So then we must ask, what the hell is a Liberal? Not that they are better or worse than the NDP or Conservatives, they are all a bunch of liars who will say anything to get elected, and then my mind asks me if Patrick Clayton, did or did not have alternative options.
There simply is not enough space here to post the crimes each party has committed against the permanently disabled injured workers. Each and every party n power has a long standing legacy of balancing its books on the backs of injured workers.
Ask yourself this, when the government and the WCB does not have to follow the law, should the citizens of Canada be required to? Would you still condemn Patrick Clayton if you understood what he was up against? It is still against the law to endorse crime so we won’t go there.
Please don’t answer that, instead lets hammer those responsible for this mess and have them tossed out of their offices, without their lucrative pensions as penalty for the crimes they committed against fellow Canadians.
Seriously just how corrupt can our WCB Boards get before someone will say enough is enough?
Why does government continue to balance its books on the backs of the disabled?
Why do those working to screw injured workers over have such mind boggling pension plans paid for with injured workers blood?
Time For a Reality Check
Injured workers are being told on a daily basis for decades now that if the adjudicator cannot see pain, there is no claim. Blatantly adjudicators have said directly to the face of injured workers, “we have unlimited resources, we don’t care if you try seek litigation”.
Nearly every injured worker has been sneered at with the following comment, “Workers Compensation is not required to pay for pain, and it pays only for lost wages”. Now we know they don’t pay for either pain or lost wages.
We have see instances where adjudicators have bragged to employers that they have a ZERO track record for anyone staying on WCB benefits, then being promoted by coincidence for their outstanding achievements.
We have thousands of cases in Canada where Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome is being denied after having been classified as fakes by people who subcontract for WCB as physical therapists. The irony is that these people were already certified as suffering from Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome by licensed doctors, or in some cases expert medical doctors whom are specialists in the field.
The way injured workers with CRPS are being treated today makes a joke out of the Supreme Court ruling on that very same topic.
A history of DENIAL by compensation boards regardless of medical evidence proving injured workers were honest in regards to their medical history. Yet the Workers Compensation will spend hundreds of thousands of injured workers dollars to show the rare case of a fraud claimant.
The reality is that for every fraud claimant, there are about 1000 frauds committed against injured workers.
The WCB Boards have hired in nearly every serious injured worker claim, a spy to watch and video or document injured workers movements, regardless of the traumatic impact this type of investigation has on honest, and law abiding citizens of Canada, even if there is evidence that investigators fabricate evidence, they continue to be rehired.
WCB Boards have a history of hiring or refusing to rehire private investigators, rehab consultants, or any persons dealing with reporting on the condition of the victim if they do not end up getting cost reduction.
Nearly in every case where WCB contracts out work, the work entails a form of denial of claim, and its not a secret this business of denial is one of the most lucrative startup business today.
Hiring drop out doctors from med school to find in favor of reduction of cost of claims, period, and to heck with the real truth, they are the backbone of WCB’s medical review panels.
WCB to this day refuses injured workers the right to have a witness present when their own privately hired doctors do the assessment to determine permanent injury. They have the right to refuse not only the witness but the obligation to pay injured workers for their injury as forfeited by the injured worker for refusing to be examined if you refuse to be examined in the presence of a witness.
The very AMA Guide they use states clearly the rules for using that information, yet WCB allows these doctors to violate those very rules in order to reduce WCB costs.
The doctors they use are the same ones used to fight injury claims in auto accidents, so as a doctor, their job is to make a liar out of the injured worker, to negate the claims of injury are the objective of these doctors who defy the oath made by doctors to protect and serve their patients best interests.
The Hippocratic Oath is one of the oldest binding documents in history. Written in antiquity, its principles are held sacred by doctors to this day, however these doctors are paid to slander what other doctors gave diagnosed, to refute the true extent of an injury.
Ask yourself how the actions of these doctors are not the most flagrant violation of the Meredith Agreement, and it flies in the face of everything that legitimized the Workers Compensation System in the first place. Refer to the Meredith Principal.
In British Columbia the Workers Compensation Board writes letters to injured workers doctors, demanding that in order to get paid; they must conform to rules that are withheld from the public, a form of extortion that makes doctors afraid to write anything supportive of injured workers claims.
Doctor’s behaviors after receiving these letters is 180 degree shift in attitude towards their patients, they absolutely refuse to write anything that can be used in a courtroom to prove an injured workers claim. Some specialists will only agree to see you if you agree not to use their findings in a courtroom.
Regardless of how honest injured workers are, WCB adjudicators are notorious for using the “laughing in your face” tactic to elicit a reaction out of you that could be used to terminate your benefits. Another common tactic injured workers must endure is the comments “your just too lazy to return to work” again to elicit a violent reaction they can use against the injured worker.
Instances of where adjudicators are suggesting patients (injured workers) use opiod drugs to be able to return to work, that despite the danger it poses to both injured workers and fellow workers.
Instances where adjudicators refuse to follow the advice by a patient’s doctor, to be referred to a specialist, and then the patient is also not allowed under WCB regulation to sue for the consequential injuries.
The WCB refuse to be responsible for any injuries that occur as a result of an injury. Example is when you have one leg that is unstable or a head injury that causes a loss of balance, the injury that occurs due to a fall is not recognized by WCB.
The WCB also like to use a chart to determine what they owe injured workers; however the very first statement in that chart says that the contents are not to be used to evaluate the disability of injured workers. I refer to the AMA charts that are being used (abused) systematically with only one objective in mind, ironically they never use the words to deny a claim, and they use the politically correct version of “cost reduction.”
Let me stop here, because if any investigation needs my help I can over them about 20 pages of abuse by WCB without ever having to repeat myself. Look up Workers Compensation on CBC or CTV and read the comments left by hundreds if not thousands of Canadians who have been burned by none other than their own government, because they had an accident at work. A crime they must pay for by living in poverty for the rest of their lives.
In closing I would like to thank Hugh MacDonald for having been honest enough to step forward with some truth in regards to the WCB. Canada is in need of more honest men and women with the courage to stand up for truth, even if it’s more cost effective to shut up and hide as most politicians do.
As for evidence to back up what I have said, I have a box that weighs over 80lbs of paper, video tapes, audio tapes, legal documents to back up everything said in this article and would be happy to hand it over to any lawyer with the integrity and courage to fight this abuse.
As for the common Canadian citizen, please have the courage to stand up and tell these political hacks to their face that their days of abuse need to end…..immediately or face the fury of the electorate.
Fight for people who have been treated worse that the victims of abuse overseas that we claim to be fighting to liberate. Fight to liberate our injured workers from a lifetime of poverty and verbal abuse from both WCB and the governments who allow them to abuse disabled injured workers.
The RCMP should put locks on the WCB offices until a complete investigation is done into the behavior of all WCB employees, likewise no unions should be allowed to negotiate excuses for crimes committed against WCB victims.
Dereliction of duty charges should be laid in the case of every upper level management position found to be supporting the current corrupt WCB system. Criminal charges should be brought against every person who willingly and knowingly reduced or removed injured workers benefits.
Charges of deliberate psychological abuse charges should be laid against all adjudicators who have verbally abused their position to reduce costs for the WCB.
Finally all charges against Patrick Clayton be placed on hold until the investigation into the WCB is completed, in the mean time Patrick Clayton needs to be sent to a rehabilitation center and compensated for the abuse committed against him. If in fact the WCB is found to be guilty, all charges against Patrick Clayton should be dismissed.
JLS ……For What It’s Worth
October 22nd, 2010 at 3:01 am
Every one has own tragic story, the question is how to get it on the news and to attention of Police? I am suffering for many years and no one helps me nor investigates it.
Apotex subjected me to the most horrifying experiences imaginable.
Apotex (my former employer) ravaged me (my system)! Apotex exposed me with out any personal / collective protection to well over 4000 very potent chemicals / actives.
We are faced with unethical corporation that engaged in illegal production of prohibited products, violated all rules of the corporate system and in the process sacrificed health of own employees.
Pharmaceutical Corporation with its mandate to bring relief to all who suffer, disregarded safety and for almost 7 years exposed me with out any personal protection to very potent products.
As result of Apotex’s negligence (exposure to advanced structural composite materials /chemicals used in the manufacturing processes which have been classified as to have a co- carcinogenic and/or synergistic effect) I AM DISABLE.
Toxic build up of the drugs and/or its metabolites can be fatal.
Company criminally concealed names/ nature of processed products. Company processed products with out regulatory permits in Facility not approved for those products (not providing any personal protection for Personnel), did not post Work Orders nor Safety Data Shits and did not disclose short and long term health hazards do to massive unprotected exposures.
As result of Company’s negligence (exposure to advanced structural composite materials /chemicals used in the manufacturing processes which have been classified as to have a co- carcinogenic and/or synergistic effect I am disabled!
Apotex, by not providing employees with any product info and personal protection promoted products induced violence at work / antidepressant nightmares. (Withdrawal can often be more dangerous than continuing on a medication. It is important to withdraw extremely slowly from these drugs, usually over a period of a year or more (conditions may not be reversible and may last a life time), under the supervision of a qualified specialist – often damage is permanent). “Severe Body & Brain Damaging Side-Effects of Antidepressants”
I was physically and verbally attacked many times at work / in Facility by individuals high on drugs.
As all Operators and other Personnel I got massive exposure to unidentified product (s )- exposed to chemicals in processes.
Company terrorized by many means any one / other employees voicing concerns about issues with Safety and quality of the products.
Employees worked with out any PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) and sustained sever injuries on daily bases.
Company did not provide First Aid materials and employees had to supply themselves in “One dollar stores “ with chip medical supply which on regular bases were ending up processed in the products.
I am suffering a great deal with life threatening medical conditions not able to afford groceries, needed medications nor to pay any of my financial dues.
We did have on daily bases incidents/accidents and substantial product spills.
I got massive and unprotected exposure to unidentified product (s ) in / during out of control accident (we did have many accidents) when one of not approved new products proved to be volatile and during process exploded causing inferno, burning/baking for period of time while releasing toxic fumes and causing collateral damage to equipment and infrastructure.
I am suffering skin discoloration (chemical leucoderma), due to antidepressants/ psychiatric drugs, narcotics and many other very potent actives I developed “liver skin spots” indicating antidepressant induced toxicity, neurological and/or physical toxicity (body and/or brain damage) either as a result of prolonged inhibition of P450-2D6 liver-enzymes, or as a result of impairing serotonin metabolism, sinuses and respiratory ailments (fluid in upper lungs). I am suffering from severe hypertension (which at the present is out of control – BP 235/135) and due to it as well as chemicals effect my hearth was damaged, migraine headaches, joints and back pains, nervous system effects (state of mental turmoil, compromised motor skills, compromised speech mechanism, memory elapses etc.), vision problems (constant presence of a black spot in eyes which may indicate minor stroke effect/hemorrhage or Depakote’s side effects etc.) my heir turned white under psychiatric drugs, kidney pain enhanced risk of cancer, and fear of cancer.
I experience a feeling of general discomfort and sickness; weakness, trouble breathing, unusual drowsiness, dizziness or light-headedness; unusual / unexplained stomach upsets, the sudden development of a slow or irregular heartbeat.
I have serious concerns about the safety of the levels of exposure. My worry is that a toxic build up of the drugs and/or its metabolites can be fatal. Some of the side effects I experience include infections, nausea, dry mouth, constipation, decreased appetite, sleepiness, dizziness, sexual side effects, nervousness, tremor, yawning, sweating, abnormal vision, weakness, insomnia, including electric shock sensations, abnormal dreams, agitation, anxiety, nausea, mood fluctuations, headache, fatigue, sleep disturbances, skin rash, anorexia, leg pain , joint pain , muscle pain, pain in arms and legs, abdominal cramps, body chronic pain, medication taste, sore throat, also effects include vomiting, rash, flu-like symptoms.
I am suffering a great deal with life threatening medical conditions not able to afford groceries, needed medications nor to pay any of my financial dues. I am not able to perform any chores around my residence, forced to relay on assistance. I was “swimming in” / a massive exposure with out any protection to a potent immunosuppressant used for organ transplants, brain function controlling drugs (psychiatric), antidepressants and narcotics which overwhelmed my system.
The evidence proves that alleged facts were true.
S. Bennett (WSiB) in grotesque manner states, that I am asking to “consider” my various medical conditions as occupational in origin based on the fact that I had been exposed to various “FUMES” IN THE WORK ENVIROMENT.
S. Bennet (WSiB) in premeditated and wonton manner ignores my submissions stating clearly that Apotex (my former employer) ravaged me (my system) by exposing me with out any personal / collective protection to well over 4000 very potent chemicals / actives. WSIB refused to provide me medical treatment that I desperately needed and which my health care professionals ordered.
There is an adversarial attitude that exists within the WSIB towards injured workers.
WSIB causes further physical / psychological damage to me then refuses to compensate me for this further damage they cause.
(Did you know that anyone in this province no matter how large the salary can be subjected to the unfair practices of the WSIB and driven to poverty? Don’t believe me? Suffer a work place injury which results in a permanent disability and it won’t take long to see for yourself).
In Ontario injured workers tremendously suffer every day and YES, THEY DO DIE EVERY DAY WITH OUT ANY HELP!
PAXIL ALONE – WE MANUFACTURED / PROCESSED, PACKAGED OVER 12 MILLION DOSAGES of it EVERY 24 HOURS AND THAT WAS DONE DURING NUMBER OF YEARS OF VERY SUBSTANTIAL EXPANSION / CONSTRUCTION, WHEN ALL PLANT WAS TURNED UP SIDE DOWN AND ALL SYSTEMS / EQUIPMENT WERE INVALIDATED /NON OPERATIONAL!
SOP /GMP, SAFETY NON EXISTENT etc.
My unprotected work with toxic / controlled substances/narcotics, which
are known to cause my conditions even in dosages regularly prescribed by Doctors and much more/worse if over dosed and did destroy my health and my life!
Apotex subjected me to disabling and deadly withdrawal effects associated with Paxil and other products Apotex exposed me to.
What a crime it was to drop me off “cold turkey” when I was withdrawn creating additional damage and leading me into an additional serotonin nightmare. Apotex did not allow me to withdraw gradually?
Apotex, who exposes own employees to these extremely addictive drugs with out any protection, with no warning of the addictive properties should be held accountable for the results of that lack of warning and criminal negligence.
Withdrawal from these serotonergic antidepressants, according to the World Health Organization, appears to be even worse than the benzodiazaphines – which already have one of the worst reputations for serious withdrawal.
Apotex subjected me to the most horrifying experiences imaginable. BEYOND ANY DOUBT I WAS EXPOSED TO THE DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES WITH OUT ANY PROTECTION AND THAT THEY CAUSED THE ADVERSE EFFECTS AND INJURIES I NOW SUFFER (Documented). As result of Company’s negligence (exposure to advanced structural composite materials /chemicals used in the manufacturing processes which have been classified as to have a co- carcinogenic and/or synergistic effect I am disabled. I am suffering a great deal with life threatening medical conditions not able to afford groceries, needed medications nor to pay any of my financial dues. I am not able to perform any chores around my residence, forced to relay on assistance. I was “swimming in” / a massive exposure with out any protection to a potent immunosuppressant, brain function controlling drugs (psychiatric), antidepressants and narcotics which overwhelmed my system.
The symptoms of Paxil withdrawal are among the most horrifying experiences imaginable. The symptoms can take your life and rip it to shreds, mocking your dignity and stealing your freedom. They ravage your soul. They deaden your spirit.
Ironically, death often seems like a blessing, so great is the pain of Paxil Withdrawal Symptoms.
Taking Paxil is like putting a loaded gun to your head. You better be damn sure you need it before you start.
The withdrawal process can mirror every depiction of hell. The paxil withdrawals can truly test your sanity. Perhaps the two worse mental expressions of the paxil withdrawals are the overwhelming feelings of being isolated, cut off from the world and even from loved ones, and the fear of permanently losing your sanity. The isolation stems in large part from the inability to express or even understand what is happening. Nobody can really look inside another person and know the degree of their suffering. The paxil withdrawals have always reminded me of the concentration camps of World War II. Some of the suffering is unimaginable, and certainly much is horrifying.
The bottom line – no one knows ahead of time if they will be one of the unfortunate who suffer horrendously, or if they will be spared the ravages of the paxil withdrawals.
Drugs, by definition – are poisons to the body. All drugs are poisons. Sometimes, however, a person’s state has reached the point where a poison is the best option.
Of all the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI’s) Paxil is generally considered to be the most potent. It also has the greatest number of side effects as well as the most severe withdrawal symptoms. There are hundreds of side effects of paxil. Paxil is nothing but a poison that causes all sorts of painful, unpleasant side effects. And sometimes the side effects don’t even show themselves until the user attempts to stop taking or being exposed to paxil.
It is a compilation of my own experience as well as that of the thousands. The symptoms redefine the term nightmare. Their nature is such, that you will find yourself questioning your sanity on a continual basis. A certain lethargy and a depression that was not there beforehand seems to have taken hold.
It appears that my Paxil withdrawal can come in many variations.
• fainting
• “scratching sound” inside one’s head
• constant white noise in the ears
• tingling sensation in cheeks, lips, tongue and surrounding areas.
• heart palpitations/ chest pain
• swollen and sore eyes
• fatigue
• extremely localized, bursting headaches
• lump in throat
• rash / dry, flaky, discolored and irritated skin
• grinding of teeth
• difficulty swallowing
• itchiness
• numbness
• speech problems / inability to use or find the right word
• trembling
• seizures involuntary muscle twitching
• hallucinations
• intense insomnia
• extraordinarily vivid dreams
• extreme confusion during waking hours
• intense fear of losing your sanity
• steady feeling of existing outside of reality as you know it (referred to as depersonalization at times)
• memory and concentration problems
• Panic Attacks (even if you never had one before)
• severe mood swings, esp. heightened irritability / anger.
• Dizziness, which can be quite extreme at times.
• Shocks, called the ‘zaps’; usually starting in the mouth or head, and extending out through the body.
• Sensory sensitivity especially sounds. Any noise can become a painful experience. Also, being under florescent lights can create discomfort. Touch, motion and even smell can be painful.
• Nausea, very common with paxil withdrawal.
• Confusion, memory problems, and difficulty with concentration.
• Severe insomnia and/or nightmares, (now there’s a winning combination).
• Extreme mood swings, such as intense grief and intense anger. Plan for this in advance!
• Suicidal thoughts. If the urge to kill yourself becomes too strong and the argument becomes too logical, think of those who love you. Think of the thousands of others who have or who will go through a similar agony. Just don’t give up!
• Headaches, sometimes quite severe.
• Reduced motor skills, such as difficulty walking or talking.
• Reduced or no appetite.
• Intense fear of losing your sanity.
• Depersonalization, where nothing seems real; it’s like you are outside your body.
• Panic attacks, even if you’ve never had them before.
• Sweating, sometimes profusely.
• Blurred vision.
• Muscle cramps and stomach cramps.
• Diarrhea.
• Chills/hot flashes, part of the ‘paxil-flu’.
• Fatigue.
• Painful, swollen eyes or mouth.
• Fainting.
• Hard to swallow.
• Grinding teeth.
• Numbness.
• Itching.
• Trembling.
• Hallucinations.
My symptoms vary from day to day. Early
signs were subtle and went unnoticed for long time (due to impairment /obliviousness). My symptoms began on one side of the body and remained worse on that side. My signs and symptoms included:
* Tremors- not substantial.
* Slowed motion (bradykinesia). Reduced my ability to initiate voluntary movement. This makes even the simplest tasks difficult and time-consuming. When I walk, my steps become short and shuffling.
My feet tend to freeze to the floor, making it hard to take the first step.
*Rigid muscles. Muscle stiffness often
occurs in my limbs and neck. Sometimes the stiffness can be so severe that it limits the range of my movements and causes pain.
* Impaired posture and balance. My
posture becomes stooped.
*Imbalance also is common.
* Loss of automatic movements. Blinking,
swinging my arms when I walk tend
to diminish.
*Speech changes. I have problems with speech. I TEND to speak more softly, rapidly or in a monotone, sometimes slurring or repeating words, or hesitating before speaking or not able to talk at all.
*Dementia. I developed problems with memory and mental clarity. Could be due to Alzheimer’s drugs I worked with.
Doctors told me that many symptoms of Parkinson’s disease result from the lack of a chemical messenger, called dopamine, in the brain. This occurs when the specific brain cells that produce dopamine die or become impaired. But researchers still aren’t certain about what sets this chain of events in motion. Some theorize that genetic mutations or environmental toxins may play a role in Parkinson’s disease.
Other factors that may trigger the onset of Parkinson’s disease include:
a. use of / exposure to antipsychotic drugs and IV drug abuse of MPTP which inhibits the function of mitochondria within the nerve cells of the brain
b. carbon monoxide poisoning.
c. ongoing exposure to toxins puts person at risk of Parkinson’s.
My secondary symptoms include progressive loss of voluntary and involuntary muscle control which produces a number of secondary symptoms.
Some secondary symptoms of my Parkinsonism include the following:
a.. Constipation
b.. Depression
c.. Difficulty swallowing (dysphagia) – saliva and food collect in my mouth or back of my throat and causes choking, coughing, or drooling.
a. Excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis) with some odor (Depacota amongst other active drugs effects othor of the sweat).
b. I observed dramatic loss of my intellectual capacity (dementia)-comparing to my earlier years.
c. I suffer psychosocial problems: anxiety, depression, isolation
d. I noticed signs of scaling, dry skin on the face and scalp (seborrhea)
e. I have slow response to questions (bradyphrenia)
f. I am getting soft, whispery voice (hypophonia)
What about my disturbed nervous system problems and chronic pain which interferes with some or all of the activities of my daily living. Often I am confined to bed because of the severity of the pain. Often, it doesn’t go away. (diagnosed – not in the File)
*What about fibromyalgia syndrome (diagnosed)?!(not in the File) which includes debilitating fatigue, sleep disturbance, and joint stiffness (diagnosed)!
Fibromyalgia is frequently comorbid with psychiatric conditions such as depression and anxiety and stress-related disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder – can be induced by antidepressants/ psychiatric drugs, narcotics (my case – DIAGNOSED).
Fibromyalgia is considered a controversial diagnosis, lacking scientific consensus as to its cause that is why in my case Doctors omit direct term. Many members of the medical community do not consider fibromyalgia a disease because of a lack of abnormalities on physical examination and the absence of objective diagnostic tests. With its muscle pain, relentless fatigue, disturbed sleep, and feelings of depression – it is a common diagnosis.
I have cluster of symptoms, and there is no definitive cure. This is tremendously frustrating to physicians and that means, I AS A PATIENT DO SUFFER.
My unprotected work with toxic / controlled substances/narcotics, which
are known to cause my conditions even in dosages regularly prescribed by Doctors and much more/worse if over dosed and did destroy my health and my life!
I am dying every day in excruciating pains. The type/variety of my pains are countless and in manifestation horrifying.
Apotex /Government Agencies are taking advantage of a sick and impaired individual, not able to effectively / aggressively defend himself in articulated manner due to medical conditions:
-significantly compromised speech mechanism
- frequent thought blockages
-memory disturbances/ elapses
-state of mental turmoil
-compromised motor skills
and many more of very aggravating neurological /medical problems.
Apotex (with accomplices) denied me medical help, deprived me of all means of sustaining myself and is not regretful. Imposed on me poverty, immense stress and obstacles etc.
Because of this my health deteriorates. I developed;
- tumors
- Parkinsonism-
- and many, many more aggravated medical conditions etc.
Apotex in criminal conspiracy with some Doctors, Lawyers, and Government Agencies omits all important information!
All Operators /Personnel displayed alarming level of problems with judgment/reasoning. They did have dramatically decreased concern for safety (obliviousness).
Routinely displayed signs of Dementia, aggression, radicalism etc.
• Always they appeared more capable than (s/he) actually were
• Operators reported no difficulty in doing certain tasks, yet they were unable to do them, or not be doing them.
• Due to massive and unprotected exposure to multitude of very potent /restricted active ingredients combined with lack of prior pharmaceutical/technical experience their specific skills deteriorated at different rates affecting different abilities. This resulted in them being able to do in limited manner some steps in a task but not others. Operator’s denial of the decrease in abilities was common and in results dangerous).
Do to my personal unprotected exposures to very highly potent actives I become very sick what prompted my dismissal by Employer. Now I am disabled with out any help! I started to create around my self cluttered environment, inability to organize or deal with organization /execution of tasks etc. I have things in inappropriate places , many reminder notes placed around home , uncompleted household tasks , I have stopped leisure activities , I voice concerns over misplacing things or objects not being where expected, I do have problems with perception/navigation , often I become lost while out in community – even in familiar settings ,I experience incontinence episodes due to confusion, visual changes cause misperceptions which lead to falls (e.g., contrasts in colors/patterns on floors and from room to room ) I have problems with orientation to time/place ,I tend to miss appointments, forget important events, not remember what day it is, etc. My engagement in meaningful activity declined, changes in environment cause my confusion, problems in routines, etc., things that are out of sight begin to be forgotten about.
Apotex as well as many Government Agencies denied me all medical and all other means of help which leads to physical changes that markedly effect perception, which begin, or increase existing, behavior symptoms. My health condition and limited resources markedly affect my abilities, symptoms. Physical changes develop that specifically effect perception of the environment, including: – “Sensory overload” in busy environment – Things that are out of sight are out of mind (not perceived) – My depth perception diminishes – Preoccupation with small/busy patterns – visual cliffs (dark color looks like hole) – I noticed loss of my sentence reading skills – visual cues prompt my actions – I develop repetitive themes – behavior – I uses sensitivity to other’s emotions to navigate the environment. Many times I am unable to recognize current places, people or things as familiar. My behavior may become unpredictable (e.g., hiding things, wandering off, getting lost – even in own home).
I start to have problems with judgment, orientation to time/place .I have an increase in nervous energy and need to pace and/or find pacing calming, regardless of the environment I am in . I find my self wandering out of house / yard, becoming disoriented and lost – especially when experiencing agitation (often). I developed a routine of taking walks and attempt to engage in it when cued. I am getting lost. Periodically I may only recognize things in limited way.
The sight of a certain object triggers an activity that I once did, but with no awareness of current danger/risks e.g., I decide to go on the roof to fix / correct things. I am becoming to constantly lose items. I want to continuously wear same clothes. Often I voice increased suspiciousness regarding misplaced items – even after they are found. Often I can’t recognize labels anymore .I tend to lock my self out of the house. Periodically I forget how each appliance is used. I forget to turn them OFF. I may not be able to accurately identify or understand use for simple familiar objects or products such remote control. May have lost the ability to use or learn and assimilate new/unfamiliar items in the environment (e.g., Lifeline) • Unable to organize and manage things.
My perception is limited but still present. Usually I am unable to understand written communication and verbal communication beyond one or a few words (I struggle many, many times all over again), but I still respond to tone of voice / gestures. I continue to respond to touch, visual and auditory stimulation, taste / smell. Some time I began to have very distorted perception. I run risk of becoming isolated; I am depressed and in some sense prematurely incapacitated. I am hyperactive (restless, continually moving) or am sleepy and somewhat lethargic. Startle reflex is more pronounced, easier to trigger declining abilities result in total dependence on my family .I have decreased mobility, I forget how to walk, or am too unsteady or weak to stand up alone. I start to have physical problems stemming from bed/chair, etc. (e.g., pressure sores). My communication is mainly non-verbal. I respond in non-verbal ways: facial/body gestures, screams, humming, repetitive sounds, words, movements. Often I interact with others meaningfully through non-verbal means (touch, sounds, gestures).Some times I may be interacting in limited manner. My verbal communication does exhaust me instantly (like tripping a breaker).
Dear Dr. , please help me by utilizing your expertise and opinionate very adverse side effects of products on my system especially from neurological point of view. Your prompt attention would be greatly appreciated due to fact, that Agencies impose on me a time limitations.
Best Regards,(Apotex’s victim)
November 3rd, 2010 at 8:34 am
Ms. Patricia Grenier
Registrar – Transition
Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario
March 14/2010
Re: Letter / Decision dated March 11/2010
Dear Ms. Grenier,
Today, the day of March 11/2010 become another black day in life of disabled and suffering person (a victim) as well as in lives of all Ontarians, Canadians and humanity in other 115 Countries effected.
Today I started to understand in to full extend a comment made by one of my former Lawyers, which did sign with me a Retaining Agreement to represent me.
After long “DISCOVERY” process he announced, that Apotex forces him to dissolve his Agreement with me (to drop my Case) and Company stated to him, that “we have every thing –COVERED- AND WE ARE NOT WARRY ABOUT ANY ACTION TAKEN BY Complainant (we can take care of it)”.
Today become apparent, that Apotex very successfully managed to infiltrate all key/ strategic Government /Public’s Institutions with its agents enabling Company to commit crimes against Society with immunity and to do damage control if criminal activity goes out of control.
In 2004, at the time when I was critically sick /incapacitated, with very serious neurological symptoms/problems I inquired with Human Rights Commission about my situation (on advice of a strenger).
I was denied the right to fill in an Application with Commission. I was advised that my concerns are of such complex nature that can be dealt with by ANY jurisdiction. In 2004 Commission Number of times denied acceptance of my Application and any submissions.
I was (and am) horribly suffering from many medical conditions due to exposure to very toxic substances with out any personal protection and knowledge about molecules I was forced to work with ( due to strict confidentiality imposed on every thing by Apotex and notoric not compliance). Amongst disabilitateing neurological problems I suffered dissection of speech mechanism , so I was not in position to collaborate on any thing.
I struggled to generate a few sentences and based on those very limited sentences Commission determined a jurisdiction which suppose to deal with my concerns ( I could not comprexend / rationalize almost any thing so I follow (what I bolived the best advise).
At the time I was told by Commission, that some issues may be of simple clerical error.
Also I was proactively advised by Commission, that there is no time limitation on such cases like mine due to strong DISCRETIONARY powers by Commission/Administrative Tribunals and due to fact that the issues are involving very important INDUSTRY impacting interest of General Public etc.
As advised I started fruitless process directly with my former employer in anticipation of resolution/ settlement (documented).
After Apotex and large number of contacted by me Lawyers stone walled me I contacted repeatedly Commission which was keen on not accepting my Application.
Eventually I was directed to other Jurisdiction for assistance (Ontario Labour Relations Board).
Additional information, rationale of argument, evidence, witness’s statements, Doctors/Lawyers evidence, etc. are included in previous communications/Letters.
Now I understood why Commission repeatedly did refuse to receive my Application in 2004, why directed me ( a sick and impaired person WITH COMPROMISED SPEECH MECHANISM AND OTHER VERY SERIOUS NEUROLOGICAL PROBLEMS -I could not talk, walk, hold a pen nor rationale what is going on-DOCUMENTED BY WSiB, Psychiatrist and others) to struggle on my own with my former Employer (efforts to resolve issues are extensively documented) and why after very long delays it directed me to other jurisdictions instead of accepting it on its own and why Commission and other Government Agencies, Boards, Tribunals repeatedly stagnated / delayed/ dismissed my case despite legitimate allegations supported by hard evidence, witnesses statements, Doctors diagnosis (ONLY about 10 % of Doctors were willing to generate letters supporting life threatening medical conditions due to employer’s criminal negligence) , professional investigator’s Reports, Federal Agencies Reports etc.
The answer is: KEY GOVERNAMENT AGENCIES ARE INFILTRATED BY VERY THE SAME APOTEX’S AGENTS WHICH ARE DIRECTING COMPLAINANTS FROM THEMSELVES TO THEMSELVES BUT IN DIFERENT AGENCIES (jurisdictions) WHERE THEY ALSO ( parallel) OCUPPY TOP MANAGERIAL POSITIONS.
IT IS A CRIMINALLY ORGANIZED VISIOUS RING TO DESTROY / demoralize COMPLAINANTS AND DELUTE LIGITIMATE CASES IN TIME AND OVERWELMING ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS. THIS IS VERY SERIOUS SYSTEMIC PROBLEM AND IT BECOME POLITICALLY SENSITIVE.
Now it is apparent why employee’s complaints to Ministry of Labour about personal/ environmental contamination, product contamination etc. went with out any investigation/ response from the Ministry of Labour. Now it is understood why Ministry of Labour did not have any records of almost daily industrial accidents in Facility (employees were getting deadly sick / injured on daily bases, some got stroke, some heart attack, some died on the job (new sampler of incoming products died on the job etc.) and most Personnel after getting sick left the Company in panic.
Company criminally concealed names/ nature of processed products. Company processed products with out regulatory permits in Facility not approved for those products (not providing any personal protection for Personnel), did not post Safety Data Shits and did not disclose short and long term health hazards do to massive unprotected exposures.
Now it is obvious, why Ministry of Labour did criminally process my Application under SECTION 50 OF THE OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT violations and AT THE END dismissed it and sarcastically advised me to litigate against “legal assistance providers” (during imposed on me by Commission initial period of personal struggle with my former employer I approached all Lawyers recommended by Law Society of Upper Canada. None was brave enough to take my case.
Those who did engage in discovery process did this on behalf of Apotex in order to hold / stagnate my Case for as long period of time as possible. Tribunal’s Rules define /state that mistaken / misleading Lawyers advice / delay constitute applicant’s “Good FAITH”).
My Application to Labour Board, after one more year of criminal conspiracy to delay and derail was dismissed due to apparent 18 months delay (which is not truth).
Why Labour Board did not use their Jurisprudence/ discretionary power nor provisions of Occupational Health and Safety Act (R.S.O. 1990.Capter 0.1(5) which state “on an inquiry by the Board into a complaint filled under subsection (2), the burden of proof that an employer or person acting on behalf of an employer did not act contrary to subsection (1) lies upon the employer or the person acting on behalf of the employer.R.S.O. 1990,c.0.1,s.50(5),1998,c.8,s.56(2).
Answer: my Case was send from Commission (Ms. Rowan and accomplices) to Labour Board (Ms. Rowan and accomplices).
Dismissal “Decision” was articulated to me in the same terminology and in the same sentences.
Every Government Agency to which I was referred to by Commission did hold my case for maximum period of time and dismissing it due to “time factor”, every time adding a period in which they did hold my File. Each Agency refused my Application if I did have any thing pending some where else (documented).
Now Tribunal claims 4 years delay which Commission did fabricate / accumulate on my behalf due to its own criminal conspiracy. ALL PERIOD OF MY EMPLOYMENT AND ALL PERIOD AFTER THAT CONSTITUTES VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS CODE. All acts / facts do constitute a violation of the Human Rights Code.
The matter is the one that falls under federal jurisdiction under the Constitution Act, 1867?
“Late applications to the Tribunal:
(2) A person may apply under subsection (1) after the expiry of the time limit under that subsection if the Tribunal is satisfied that the delay was incurred in good faith and no substantial prejudice will result to any person affected by the delay. 2006, c. 30, s. 5.”
Tribunal rules
43. (1) The Tribunal may make rules governing the practice and procedure before it. 2006, c. 30, s. 5.
(3) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the Tribunal rules may,
(a) provide for and require the use of hearings or of practices and procedures that are provided for under the Statutory Powers Procedure Act or that are alternatives to traditional adjudicative or adversarial procedures;
CHAPTER 5: SECTION 34
Quality Standards
• It is important to underscore that this is discretion. There may be an absence of good faith and the presence of substantial prejudice, or both, yet the Commission can still choose to deal with the complaint. This may arise, for example, where a complaint involves important industry or sector wide concerns that have eluded investigation in other cases.
• However, there is no discretion where the Commission finds that there is the presence of good faith and also finds an absence of substantial prejudice. In that case, the Commission must “deal with” the complaint: Brome v. OHRC (1999), 35 C.H.R.R. D/469 (Div. Ct.).
Was the delay incurred in “good faith”?
• The term “good faith” has been interpreted in two ways. The broader reading requires an absence of bad faith or an ulterior motive. The narrower reading is that good faith actually requires more, i.e., the presence of some positive or good. While the matter has not yet been directly addressed in a human rights case, the Commission has generally adopted the narrower approach. In other words, the complainant must provide some positive reason for the delay in filing the complaint.
Decisions final
45.8 Subject to section 45.7 of this Act, section 21.1 of the Statutory Powers Procedure Act and the Tribunal rules, a decision of the Tribunal is final and not subject to appeal and shall not be altered or set aside in an application for judicial review or in any other proceeding unless the decision is patently unreasonable. 2006, c. 30, s. 5; 2009, c. 33, Sched. 2, s. 35 (3).
Why Ms. Caroline Rowan did not see it? Incompetence or criminal conspiracy?
Now it is understood why Apotex number of times discarded huge volumes of very toxic waste waters in to Lake Ontario and no one noticed any thing etc. ( Ontario Environment Minister Dan Newman introduced a bill October 10 in the Legislature that would give Ontario the toughest fines and longest jail terms in Canada for major environmental offences.
The Environmental Penalties Statute Law Amendment Act, 2000 would amend the penalty structure of the Environmental Protection Act, Ontario Water Resources Act and the Pesticides Act. The proposed penalties would:
• Increase the maximum fine for a first conviction of a major offence for a corporation from $1 million to $6 million per day, and for a subsequent conviction from $2 million to $10 million per day.
• Increase the maximum fine for a first conviction of a major offence for an individual from $100,000 to $4 million per day, and for subsequent convictions from $200,000 to $6 million per day.
• Increase the maximum jail terms for a person convicted of a major offence from two years to five years.
The penalty structure in the Ontario Water Resources Act would be amended to ensure that these new tough penalties apply to the most serious offences under the new Drinking Water Protection Regulation, including failure to report samples that exceed standards and failure to ensure minimum levels of treatment.
Mr. Newman has also announced the creation of a SWAT team, which will be a highly mobile compliance, inspection and enforcement unit.)
Ontario’s Commission as well as Tribunal of Human Rights is perpetuating culture of crime and violations of Human Rights in Ontario (operates as a coordination centre, predator / violator of human rights). Acts on behalf of Organizations violating all Laws and Legislatives and committing crimes against Citizens.
Tribunal acts as a coordinating link amongst Government Agencies committing crimes against Citizens.
Apotex managed to compromise operational integrity, mandate etc. of key Government Agencies, Commissions, Tribunals, Boards which suppose to protect General Public.
Apotex developed integrated and very successful network of crime in Ontario.
Now it is obvious, why Ontario become safe haven for big Corporations engaged in criminal activities?
Now we know how this happened, that private Corporation controls Lawyers, Doctors, Government Agencies etc.?
Tribunal as well as Ontario Labour Board, WSiB, Ontario Ombudsmen, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Worker Advisor Office, Service Canada, Fair Practices Commission and many other Government Agencies which repeatedly refused to report to Police crimes against me and General Public.
Commission, Tribunal, WSiB, Labour Board as well as other Government Agencies refused to report acts of Domestic and Global terrorism to Authorities/ Police.
Apotex become a bully who harms / attacks people who express concerns in area of Public Safety or are weaker or unable to defend themselves. Apotex exposed own employees to appalling and atrocious conditions at work.
Defendant, Apotex / Counsel displayed bad faith, arrogance, disrespect to Canadian Constitution, Human Rights, whole Justice System, Public Order. Tribunal etc.
Apotex is defiant, not regretful, with out remorse, not willing to correct wrong doings. Company, Tribunal as well as other Government Agencies (collectively GOVERNMENT) got engaged in intentional malicious conduct violating all statutes with a reckless indifference. It acted in the face of a perceived risk that its actions will violate all laws. Apotex /Counsel after 6 years of disabling me, torturing me, denials of medical help, denials of Constitutional and Law protection as well as many other criminal acts eventually admitted all allegations. Apotex refuse to plea “Guilty”, and in further criminal acts decided to challenge my Application on technicalities / alleged preliminary issues.
Apotex and all involved in sabotaging of my allegations must be INDICTED and convicted on multiple offences / crime (Criminal Code, Constitutional provisions, Bill – 45, Bill 107 and other Law provisions.
I was and am tortured by Apotex, Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario’s Ombudsmen Office, Service Canada, Office of the Worker Adviser, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Tribunal and some more Agencies. Canadian Government institutions mandated to assist General Public in time of misfortune, suffer and despair selected to engage in criminal activities and assist criminal Corporation which is stone waling an Ontarian / victim with life threatening medical conditions. Those Institutions deprived me from Constitutional and Law protection. Apotex and its accomplices denied me medical help, deprived me of all means of sustaining myself and are not regretful. Apotex, Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario’s Ombudsmen Office sentenced me and my family for life of suffer, despair, hunger and poverty. Apotex, Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario’s Ombudsmen Office shattered my and my family’s dreams and future. Apotex many times derailed my attempts to get help and justice.
IT IS SUBMITED THAT APOTEX’S CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR IS EXTREME SO FORTH IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT AFTER SO MANY YEARS OF RETRIBUTION, DISCRIMINATION, HERRASEMENT, DENAIL OF MEDICAL HELP APOTEX /COUNSEL ADMITS ALL MY ALLEGATIONS (RESPONSE ON ALLEGED PRELIMINARY ISSUES, PAGE 3, OCT 22/2009 UNDER “JURISDICTION” ( ), BUT THIS TIME AROUND CLAIMING THAT THE ALLEGATIONS DO NOT CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS CODE.
DUE TO APOTEX’S TORTURE, RETRIBUTION, DISCRIMINATION, HERRASEMENT DURRING MY EMPLOYMENT AND AFTER AND DENAIL OF MEDICAL HELP I SUSTAINED INJURIES AT WORK AND PERMANENT DISABILITIES SUFFERING A GREAT DEAL!
I was under influence / heavily impaired on psychiatric / antidepressants, narcotics and other potent medications before, during and after occurrence. Company in acts of retribution and criminal negligence exposed me to highly potent / dangerous toxic substances for 6.5 years period with out any Personal Protection Equipment.
- I was profoundly sick at the time of occurrence and after (I could not talk, hold a pan, walk, rationalize what was happening).
- Company abused my condition and committed crimes against me.
- Company deceived me with promises of a new job with out exposure to toxic substances at the time of occurrence and after.
You, Ms. Grenier are one of the top “links” in Tribunal’s structure (additionally residing in Toronto’s Branch of Amnesty International (see below info). Despite that you did not hesitate to entrust adjudication of my Case to an incompetent, acting in bad faith and on Apotex’s service “MEMBER” of the Tribunal with out any expertise in investigative techniques / methodology of Human Rights Law and Cases.
Ms. C. Rowan lacks knowledge in medical area and she did not seek any expert opinions from World’s Health Organization, Poison Centre, Advocates for Mental Disability Group, Psychiatry Advocacy Groups nor Center for Desise Control any other helpful expert sources. Her goal was to dismiss my Application for any reason (because my Case is pending with WSiB and fabricated apparent delay).
Tribunal inquiry
44. (1) At the request of a party to an application under this Part, the Tribunal may appoint a person to conduct an inquiry under this section if the Tribunal is satisfied that,
(a) an inquiry is required in order to obtain evidence;
(b) the evidence obtained may assist in achieving a fair, just and expeditious resolution of the merits of the application; and
(c) it is appropriate to do so in the circumstances. 2006, c. 30, s. 5.
Powers on inquiry
(6) A person conducting an inquiry may,
(a) request the production for inspection and examination of documents or things that are or may be relevant to the inquiry;
Tribunal (Ms. Rowan) ignored all of the McGuinty Government’s 10 key commitments on what Bill 107 will deliver to the public, including discrimination victims. See that full list of commitments.
In summary, the Government has made these 10 commitments:
1. Commitment of free legal representation for all human rights complainants.
2. Commitment that the Human Rights Legal Support Centre will investigate the cases of people they represent.
3. Commitment of the Human Rights Legal Support Centre to meet with everyone who wants legal representation.
4. Commitment to provide legal services across Ontario.
5. Commitment of Human Rights Legal Support Centre to pay for expert witnesses for their clients.
6. Commitment to having human rights cases decided within one year of filing a complaint under Bill 107.
7. Commitment that legal support to be provided to all regardless of income.
8. Commitment to establish Anti-Racism Secretariat and Disability Rights Secretariat at the Human Rights Commission.
9. Commitment that Human Rights Commission will become stronger force for human rights.
10. Commitment that Bill 107 responds to the Cornish and La Forest reports.
The “Member’s” adjudication of my Claim is criminal and in gross conflict of interest SO FORTH HER DECISIONS ARE CRIMINAL, INNVALID, NOT BINDING AND MUST BE REVOKED BY TRIBUNAL IMEDIETLY!
Ms. Caroline Rowan, a Tribunal “Member” ignored all evidence, witness’s statements, Doctor’s statements, WSiB’s Investigation Reports, Canadian Constitution, Chapter of Human Rights, Bill – 45, Bill-107 and all other Laws /Legislatives INCLUDING RATIONALE OF THE ARGUMENT.
Member adjudicating my Claim (Ms. Caroline Rowan) demonstrated incompetence or extreme, criminal attitude / behavior ( bad faith ) total ignorance, lack of knowledge in medical area of my situation/Application as well as she interpreted Tribunal’s Rules / Law in criminally BIAS manner.
She grossly obstructed Tribunal’s ADJUDICATIVE process by being in gross conflict of interest and ignoring all evidence and my medical condition. She assumed position of Facilitator, Accomplice/ accessory to the crimes against me and General Public.
Due to scope of criminal activities it must be classified as crimes against HUMANITY.
Caroline Rowan, of Toronto, was appointed to the Ontario Labour Relations Board as Vice-chair in 1999.
Ms. Caroline Rowan resides as a full time Vice-Chair at the Ontario Labour Relations Board (another Administrative Tribunal which under her management criminally sabotaged my Application under SECTION 50 OF THE OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT), where she adjudicates matters arising under a variety of labour and employment related statutes and acts as an arbitrator of construction industry grievances. As I communicated to Tribunal before, Labour Board sabotages my Application after very prolonged time of conspiracy and delay.
She is also a part-time (with out remuneration so forth with out interest in being compliant) Member of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and acts as a private arbitrator and mediator (not Adjudicator!). Her fife year tenure ends in few months (25 Oct 2010) so she was selected to perform dirty work for a Tribunal in the storage Room. She is not qualified nor she has frame of mind to adjudicate any and especially complex cases of Human Rights Code/ Charter violations!
Since her call to the Bar in 1991, she has worked exclusively in the field of labour relations and employment law. She was in private practice for many years providing counsel on a wide range of labour and employment matters.
Appears, that Ms. Rowan does not meet requirements to be adjudicating such Cases of Human Rights violations.
(Requirements: The selection process for the appointment of members of the Tribunal is a competitive process. The criteria to be applied in assessing candidates include the following: Experience, knowledge or training with respect to human rights law and issues; Aptitude for impartial adjudication; Aptitude for applying the alternative adjudicative practices and procedures that may be set out in the Tribunal rules. She is taking a risk to be bias and in conflict with Tribunal’s Rules and Canada’s Law).
So one can conclude that under Ms. Rowan’s influence my Application to the Commission was not accepted on time, that under her manipulation I was forced to act on my own in initial stages (2004 -2005) and was stagnated in the process.
That is why after that I was directed from Commission to ONOTHER Ms. Rowan’s Office in the Labour Board where she further sabotaged my Application and after another year of delays dismissed it on bogus “time delay” bases. In all Agencies People were not interested in assisting me and punishing the offender.
All those representatives were stating to me” do not call us, we will call you”. If I wanted to protest or inquire periodically II was threatened with dismissal of my Application When I wanted to record such conversations I was refused consent to do so.
From Labour Board I was directed by Ms. Rowan (her subordinates) back to her Commission’s Office where eventually my Commission’s Application was accepted, but only to get stocked dormant in unofficial Files awaiting enactment of Bill 107.
Commission conducted number of sabotaging acts / movements forcing me to re-apply again this time to Tribunal.
It is submitted, that Member’s decision concerning my Application contain ad hoc rationalizations to avoid finding out, that Company’s activities are criminal and Respondent should be declared as the one committing crimes against humanity, committing acts of domestic and Global terrorism and should be investigated by Amnesty International, FBI, Ministry of Public Safety and trialed by Tribunal in Strasburg for such crimes. Now it is clear, why Government Agencies did refuse to accept my Applications in overlapping manner if I did have any situation pending somewhere else.
Maximal delay tactics.
Criminal individuals implanted in Public’s Institutions now how to work SYSTEM to make it useless/ failing the Citizens (in distress.) they suppose serve.
Apotex subjected me to the most horrifying experiences imaginable. BEYOND ANY DOUBT I WAS EXPOSED TO THE DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES WITH OUT ANY PROTECTION AND THAT THEY CAUSED THE ADVERSE EFFECTS AND INJURIES I NOW SUFFER (Documented). As result of Company’s negligence (exposure to advanced structural composite materials /chemicals used in the manufacturing processes which have been classified as to have a co- carcinogenic and/or synergistic effect I am disabled. I am suffering a great deal with life threatening medical conditions not able to afford groceries, needed medications or to pay any of my financial dues. I am not able to perform any chores around my residence, forced to relay on assistance. I was “swimming in” / a massive exposure with out any protection to a potent immunosuppressant, brain function controlling drugs (psychiatric), antidepressants and narcotics which overwhelmed my system.
The symptoms of Paxil withdrawal are among the most horrifying experiences imaginable. The symptoms can take your life and rip it to shreds, mocking your dignity and stealing your freedom. They ravage your soul. They deaden your spirit.
Ironically, death often seems like a blessing, so great is the pain of Paxil Withdrawal Symptoms.
Taking Paxil is like putting a loaded gun to your head. You better be damn sure you need it before you start.
The withdrawal process can mirror every depiction of hell. The paxil withdrawals can truly test your sanity. Perhaps the two worse mental expressions of the paxil withdrawals are the overwhelming feelings of being isolated, cut off from the world and even from loved ones, and the fear of permanently losing your sanity. The isolation stems in large part from the inability to express or even understand what is happening. Nobody can really look inside another person and know the degree of their suffering. The paxil withdrawals have always reminded me of the concentration camps of World War II. Some of the suffering is unimaginable, and certainly much is horrifying.
The bottom line – no one knows ahead of time if they will be one of the unfortunate who suffer horrendously, or if they will be spared the ravages of the paxil withdrawals.
Drugs, by definition – are poisons to the body. All drugs are poisons. Sometimes, however, a person’s state has reached the point where a poison is the best option.
Of all the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI’s) Paxil is generally considered to be the most potent. It also has the greatest number of side effects as well as the most severe withdrawal symptoms. There are hundreds of side effects of paxil. Paxil is nothing but a poison that causes all sorts of painful, unpleasant side effects. And sometimes the side effects don’t even show themselves until the user attempts to stop taking or being exposed to paxil.
It is a compilation of my own experience as well as that of the thousands. The symptoms redefine the term nightmare. Their nature is such, that you will find yourself questioning your sanity on a continual basis. Certain lethargy and a depression that was not there beforehand seems to have taken hold.
It appears that Paxil withdrawal can come in many variations.
In regard to DELAY, GOOD FAITH and other issues please refer to the my letter to Registrar – Transition Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (Nov. 18/2009) and all other submissions which are voiding all rationale, conclusions, persuades made maliciously and in BAD FAITH by Ms. Caroline Rowan (“MEMBER”/ a Public’s enemy).
Apotex did knowingly and willfully make a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statements and representation in a matter within the jurisdiction of the Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Tribunal and other Government Agencies, DENIED MEDICAL HELP as well obstructed Canadian Constitution etc.
Apotex committed many counts of perverting the course of justice or intending to pervert the course of justice, many counts of perjury, criminal conspiracy, criminal negligence, criminal recruitment of false witnesses, attempted murder, did cause permanent disability, irreparable damage. Issues and/or events which occurred after my departure from Employer are also in full are Apotex’s liabilities due to fact that Apotex actively sabotaged legal /administrative proceedings in all Government Agencies in question. Preliminary matters are that Apotex In premeditated manner is torturing me for MANY, MANY years and pending. Company acts without any consideration for the human rights.
Apotex falsified all records provided by them to Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Tribunal and other Government Agencies (collectively Government) and engaged its employees in criminal conspiracy (documented) which untimely further deteriorates my state of health.
Apotex denied me medical help, Constitutional and Law protection, deprived mi of ability to get new job and/or provide for my self.
Regards,
Andrew Orlowski
Pc: AFTER FOLSYFING ALL SUBMISSIONS / EVIDENCE AND REFUSING TO REPORT SITUATION TO THE POLICE etc. WSiB CRIMINALLY DENIED MY CLAIM VERY LONG TIME AGO.
OFFICE OF WORKER ADVISER DID CRIMINALLY SEND MY FILE FROM ONE PERSON TO ANOTHER, FROM ONE OFFICE TO ONOTHER AND EVENTUALLY STOPPED TO COMMUNICATE WITH ME AT ALL. ON THE BEGINNING (AS IN ALL OTHER AGENCIES) I WAS TOLD NOT TO CALL/ INQUIRE ABOUT MY CASE (DO NOT CALL US, WE WILL CALL YOU).
FEW DAYS BEFORE TRIBUNAL’S DECISION WORKER ADVISER RE-APPEARED AND STARTED TO DUPLICATE WHAT ALREADY WAS DONE LONG, LONG TIME AGO.
“CRIMINAL ENTANGLES” EVIDENCE AND A VICTIM.
WHOLE PROCES IS DISCRIMINATORY AND CRIMINAL WITH IN IT SELF.
NO ONE IS OUT THERE TO HELP ?????!!!!!!
November 3rd, 2010 at 8:38 am
Dear Sir. Madam,
Company criminally concealed names/ nature of processed products. Company processed products with out regulatory permits in Facility not approved for those products (not providing any personal protection for Personnel), did not post Safety Data Shits and did not disclose short and long term health hazards do to massive unprotected exposures.
As result of Company’s negligence (exposure to advanced structural composite materials /chemicals used in the manufacturing processes which have been classified as to have a co- carcinogenic and/or synergistic effect I am disabled!
Apotex, by not providing employees with any product info and personal protection promoted products induced violence at work / antidepressant nightmares. (Withdrawal can often be more dangerous than continuing on a medication. It is important to withdraw extremely slowly from these drugs, usually over a period of a year or more, under the supervision of a qualified specialist – often damage is permanent). I was physically and verbally attacked many times at work / in Facility). Taliban did cause my right hand severe injury and time off work in 2001. As always Company did not report it to WSiB.
As all Operators and other Personnel I got massive exposure to unidentified product (s )- exposed to chemicals in processes.
Apotex is defiant, not regretful, with out remorse, not willing to correct wrong doings.
Company terrorized by many means any one / other employees voicing concerns about issues with Safety and quality of the products.
Employees worked with out any PPE(Personal Protection Equipment) and sustained sever injuries on daily bases.
Company did not provide First Aid materials and employees had to supply themselves in “One dollar stores “ with chip medical supply which on regular bases were ending up in the products.
I am suffering a great deal with life threatening medical conditions not able to afford groceries, needed medications nor to pay any of my financial dues.
We did have on daily bases incidents/accidents and substantial product spills.
I got massive and unprotected exposure to unidentified product (s ) in / during out of control accident (we did have many accidents) when one of not approved new products proved to be volatile and during process exploded causing inferno, burning/baking for period of time while releasing toxic fumes and causing collateral damage to equipment and infrastructure.
I am suffering skin discoloration, sinuses and respiratory ailments (fluid in upper lungs). I am suffering from severe hypertension (which at the present is out of control – BP 235/135) and due to it as well as chemicals effect my hearth was damaged, migraine headaches, joints and back pains, nervous system effects (state of mental turmoil, compromised motor skills, compromised speech mechanism, memory elapses etc.), vision problems (constant presence of a black spot in eyes which may indicate minor stroke effect/hemorrhage or Depakote’s side effects etc.) my heir turned white under psychiatric drugs, kidney pain and changes, enhanced risk of cancer, and fear of cancer.
I experience a feeling of general discomfort and sickness; weakness, trouble breathing, unusual drowsiness, dizziness or light-headedness; unusual / unexplained stomach upsets, the sudden development of a slow or irregular heartbeat.
I have serious concerns about the safety of the levels of exposure. My worry is that a toxic build up of the drugs and/or its metabolites can be fatal. Some of the side effects I experience include infections, nausea, dry mouth, constipation, decreased appetite, sleepiness, dizziness, sexual side effects, nervousness, tremor, yawning, sweating, abnormal vision, weakness, insomnia, including electric shock sensations, abnormal dreams, agitation, anxiety, nausea, mood fluctuations, headache, fatigue, sleep disturbances, skin rash, anorexia, leg pain , joint pain , muscle pain, pain in arms and legs, abdominal cramps, body chronic pain, medication taste, sore throat, also effects include vomiting, rash, flu-like symptoms.
I am suffering a great deal with life threatening medical conditions not able to afford groceries, needed medications nor to pay any of my financial dues. I am not able to perform any chores around my residence, forced to relay on assistance. I was “swimming in” / a massive exposure with out any protection to a potent immunosuppressant used for organ transplants, brain function controlling drugs (psychiatric), antidepressants and narcotics which overwhelmed my system.
The evidence proves that alleged facts were true.
Company, with its mandate to bring relief / help to people suffering from many medical conditions did make me disable ( work related medical conditions) limiting my professional and personal life, making challenging my social life, destroyed my marriage, imposed extreme hardship on my family and relatives/friends, indirectly killed two of my elderly parents (since they learned about my situation they suddenly died few weeks a part – I was sole provider) and in vicious / malicious manner on on going bases is preventing me from enjoying my Constitutional Right to be able to provide for myself.
The human nervous system is particularly vulnerable to toxic-chemical insults. Many chemicals can permanently disrupt nervous system function.
Use of / exposure to antipsychotic drugs and IV drug abuse of MPTP which inhibits the function of mitochondria within the nerve cells of the brain, Environmental toxins may play a role in Parkinson’s disease. Exposure to psychiatric / antidepressants drugs may potentially cause symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease.
Adverse reactions to psychiatric / antidepressant medications (treatment / exposure induced) are often diagnosed as bipolar disorder when the symptoms may be entirely iatrogenic (treatment induced).
What a crime it was to drop me off “cold turkey” when I was withdrawn creating additional damage and leading me into an additional serotonin nightmare. Apotex did not allow me to withdraw gradually?
Apotex, who exposes own employees to these extremely addictive drugs with out any protection, with no warning of the addictive properties should be held accountable for the results of that lack of warning and criminal negligence. Withdrawal from these serotonergic antidepressants, according to the World Health Organization, appears to be even worse than the benzodiazaphines – which already have one of the worst reputations for serious withdrawal.
Neither I nor any of the employees were ever informed before starting work with Paxil and other products, that they were addictive, induced dependency, or created withdrawal reactions.
Paxil creates both physical and psychological dependency because Apotex has suppressed the information about the severe withdrawal reactions of its drugs, many employees and their physicians are fooled into thinking that the withdrawal reactions are caused by another condition (such as relapse), thus prompting further incorrect and unnecessary medical treatment, including increased dosages of Paxil.
Apotex has known for years the distinct characteristics of Paxil which make it prone to cause withdrawal reactions when discontinued.
As result of Company’s negligence (exposure to advanced structural composite materials /chemicals used in the manufacturing processes which have been classified as to have a co- carcinogenic and/or synergistic effect I am disabled. I am suffering a great deal with life threatening medical conditions not able to afford groceries, needed medications nor to pay any of my financial dues. I am not able to perform any chores around my residence, forced to relay on assistance. I was “swimming in” / a massive exposure with out any protection to a potent immunosuppressant, brain function controlling drugs (psychiatric), antidepressants and narcotics which overwhelmed my system.
The symptoms of Paxil withdrawal are among the most horrifying experiences imaginable. The symptoms can take your life and rip it to shreds, mocking your dignity and stealing your freedom. They ravage your soul. They deaden your spirit.
Ironically, death often seems like a blessing, so great is the pain of Paxil Withdrawal Symptoms.
Taking Paxil is like putting a loaded gun to your head. You better be damn sure you need it before you start.
The withdrawal process can mirror every depiction of hell. The paxil withdrawals can truly test your sanity. Perhaps the two worse mental expressions of the paxil withdrawals are the overwhelming feelings of being isolated, cut off from the world and even from loved ones, and the fear of permanently losing your sanity. The isolation stems in large part from the inability to express or even understand what is happening. Nobody can really look inside another person and know the degree of their suffering. The paxil withdrawals have always reminded me of the concentration camps of World War II. Some of the suffering is unimaginable, and certainly much is horrifying.
The bottom line – no one knows ahead of time if they will be one of the unfortunate who suffer horrendously, or if they will be spared the ravages of the paxil withdrawals.
My Paxil withdrawal comes in many variations.
• fainting
• “scratching sound” inside one’s head
• constant white noise in the ears
• tingling sensation in cheeks, lips, tongue and surrounding areas.
• heart palpitations/ chest pain
• swollen and sore eyes
• fatigue
• extremely localized, bursting headaches
• lump in throat
• rash / dry, flaky, discolored and irritated skin
• grinding of teeth
• difficulty swallowing
• itchiness
• numbness
• speech problems / inability to use or find the right word
• trembling
• seizures involuntary muscle twitching
• hallucinations
• intense insomnia
• extraordinarily vivid dreams
• extreme confusion during waking hours
• intense fear of losing your sanity
• steady feeling of existing outside of reality as you know it (referred to as depersonalization at times)
• memory and concentration problems
• Panic Attacks (even if you never had one before)
• severe mood swings, esp. heightened irritability / anger.
• Dizziness, which can be quite extreme at times.
• Shocks, called the ‘zaps’; usually starting in the mouth or head, and extending out through the body.
• Sensory sensitivity especially sounds. Any noise can become a painful experience. Also, being under florescent lights can create discomfort. Touch, motion and even smell can be painful.
• Nausea, very common with paxil withdrawal.
• Confusion, memory problems, and difficulty with concentration.
• Severe insomnia and/or nightmares, (now there’s a winning combination).
• Extreme mood swings, such as intense grief and intense anger. Plan for this in advance!
• Suicidal thoughts. If the urge to kill yourself becomes too strong and the argument becomes too logical, think of those who love you. Think of the thousands of others who have or who will go through a similar agony. Just don’t give up!
• Headaches, sometimes quite severe.
• Reduced motor skills, such as difficulty walking or talking.
• Reduced or no appetite.
• Intense fear of losing your sanity.
• Depersonalization, where nothing seems real; it’s like you are outside your body.
• Panic attacks, even if you’ve never had them before.
• Sweating, sometimes profusely.
• Blurred vision.
• Muscle cramps and stomach cramps.
• Diarrhea.
• Chills/hot flashes, part of the ‘paxil-flu’.
• Fatigue.
• Painful, swollen eyes or mouth.
• Fainting.
• Hard to swallow.
• Grinding teeth.
• Numbness.
• Itching.
• Trembling.
I was under influence / heavily impaired on psychiatric / antidepressants, narcotics and other potent medications before, during and after employment. Company in acts of retribution and criminal negligence exposed me to highly potent / dangerous toxic substances for 6.5 years period with out any Personal Protection Equipment.
- I was profoundly sick at the time of occurrence and after (I could not talk, hold a pan, walk, rationalize what was happening).
- Company abused my condition and committed crimes against me.
- Company deceived me with promises of a new job with out exposure to toxic substances at the time of occurrence and after.
Lately, one of my many medical conditions deteriorated and imposes on me a lot of difficulties and enormous stress.
During my employment I developed lungs problem (due to product side effects- reported to Superiors and documented). My autonomic function of lungs (a function of the respiratory cycles) has been compromised.
More and more frequently I am stopping to breathe with out a warning. These are relatively short in duration episodes but I am not in control of them. Despite my conscious mind I struggle in-vein to take air and I can not make my lungs to move. I suspect that my neurons / neurotransmitters are affected / damaged (altered function / communication) by active ingredients at work.
Apotex and all involved in sabotaging of my allegations must be INDICTED and convicted on multiple offences / crime (Criminal Code, Constitutional provisions, Bill – 45, Bill 107, Bill – 168 and other Law provisions ).
When I position my eyes to the right or left, without moving my head, I experience extreme vertigo….
Every nerve and cell within me is screaming … and I experience “electrical-jolt” type sensations throughout my entire body…
The nausea I experience everyday is so terrible that I feel as if I could go on throwing up for hours, ………..
My brain feels as if it’s “swimming inside of my skull…
My heart flutters so fast and sporadically, I feel as if at any moment, my heart will explode and I will drop dead with a heart attack. ………
The side effects of these drugs are extremely annoying. (Short term memory loss, insomnia, loss of libido etc) to name a few.
But NOTHING compares to the nightmarish HELL I experience of coming off of these anti-depressant type drugs.
Paxil is notorious for having the worst discontinuation syndrome ever.
Ah, yes but “doctors” will tell me these drugs are perfectly safe, but what they don’t tell is that SHOULD I/you EVER decide to get off the drug/or stop being exposed to, I/you will be in for the ride of your life!
Paxil and other drugs did take all my emotions, and tucked them away neatly in a”box“where I never had to really deal with anything.
The withdrawal symptoms are extremely unbearable. I experience a hell I never knew existed.
Then…that “nice little box” that was tucked away neatly is now OPEN, and every emotion I ever had in my entire existence is let out all at once, like a pack of roaring lions.
At this point I have to be prepared for ANYTHING. I am fine one moment and the next I am sobbing uncontrollably.
I feel like I want to die!
These are typical symptoms of “discontinuation syndrome” which mostly doctors fail to recognize as being “real” or fail to worn people about, but anyone who’s ever tried to get off Paxil will tell you, it’s VERY real.
Doctors get paid big bucks every time they write a prescription, and they get pushed big time to prescribe these drugs to people, for just about any complaint or ailment.
The pharmaceutical companies are making massive amounts of money on our misery, and keep cashing in because it’s so hard for people to get off these anti-depressant type drugs.
Paxil is making me feel very lethargic and all around disabled 24 hours a day every day.
Apotex deprived me of all my Doctors. Doctors do say to me “I am very sorry, but I do not want to get involved in this”. I have no body to speak about my concerns/ suffer.
I KNOW my body best.
It is always CRUCIAL in recovery to wean off these drugs slowly; it will make the withdrawal process smoother and easier. NEVER go off “cold turkey”. It is very dangerous, due to horrifying /suicidal tendency and every thing else I experience / suffer. I was told, that my suffer will newer go away.
I was told, that I do have permanent problem!
It has been hell for years with my anxiety, depression, zaps, pain etc.
I have been getting gradually worse symptoms of Parkinsonism, Fibromyalgia, soft tissue tumors, dizziness, drowsiness and general “mental fog.” It’s getting so bad that I think about being in twightlight zone.
Disconnection with environment / disconnection with emotions.
Some time I do not know whether I am wake or I am a sleep. Paxil and other psychiatric actives separated my sole from my body. I think about being some body else (like split personality.
Like being floating in my surroundings.
I can’t read without strong magnifying glass. I am getting really dizzy and I can barely retain information.
Please look at my other submission of my horrifying actives side effects.
Regards,
November 3rd, 2010 at 8:39 am
Carters Professional Corporation
CHARITY LAW BULLETIN NO. 218
By Barry W. Kwasniewski
Barry W. Kwasniewski, B.B.A., LL.B., practices employment and risk management law with Carters’ Ottawa office.
C. FACTORS TRIBUNAL WILL REVIEW TO UPHOLD OR SET ASIDE A SETTLEMENT AND RELEASE
In determining whether or not a particular settlement and release relating to a human rights complaint will be
upheld, the Tribunal will examine a variety of factors, including:
· Capacity: If the applicant can prove that he or she lacked the mental capacity to enter into an
agreement, it will likely not be upheld. An applicant bears the burden of proving that he or she
did not understand the settlement agreement and release when it was entered into as a result of
lack of mental capacity. In those circumstances, the Tribunal may determine that the applicant
lacked the capacity to consent to the agreement, and is therefore not bound by its terms.
· Duress: The term “duress” means the party who signed the settlement and release did so against
his or her own free will. Duress may be a threat of harm or, more commonly, the threat of
financial harm, known as “economic duress”. To prove economic duress, the party must satisfy
the Tribunal that the employer unlawfully coerced the employee by threatening financial injury.
An example would be requiring the employee to sign a release by threatening not to pay wages
that are due and owing.
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No. 218, July 28, 2010
· Misrepresentation: The Tribunal may set aside a settlement agreement and a release in
circumstances where the employer negligently or intentionally deceived the employee, if such
representations induced the employee to enter into the settlement agreement. For example, if the
employer mislead the employee as to the components of the settlement and did not permit the
employee sufficient time to properly review the settlement before it was signed, this could be
grounds for the Tribunal voiding the agreement.
· Fairness of the settlement: In light of the potential for the inequality of bargaining power
between the employer and the employee, the Tribunal may also examine the fairness of the
settlement. This is particularly true where the employee was not represented by a lawyer. While
the Tribunal will not parse a settlement agreement to see whether all potential claims for
compensation have been satisfied, the Tribunal will examine the overall settlement to determine
whether the employee received sufficient benefit in exchange for signing the settlement and the
release.
D. CONCLUSION
In light of the approach taken by the Tribunal in determining the validity and enforceability of a settlement
agreement and release, employers should keep the following issues in mind:
· Make sure that any release that an employee is asked to sign includes a release of claims under
the Code, whether or not the employee has raised human rights issues.
· Allow the employee sufficient time to review the settlement agreement and release prior to
signing it and suggest in writing that the employee obtain legal advice prior to doing so.
· Be prepared to explain the settlement agreement and release to the employee, and do so
accurately.
· Do not adopt a negotiation strategy that could be construed as coercion, compulsion or abuse of
power or authority, which will leave the employer open to complaints of duress.
· Finally, be aware of your human rights obligations as an employer.
November 17th, 2010 at 7:41 am
After Canada’s example of financial compensation , political/ legal support for terror suspect(s), alleged terrorism suspects held under a house arrest-style program but never put on trial are likely to win compensation payments in Britain, Britain’s government said Wednesday (07/04/2010 ) …
TERRORIST SUSPECTS TO GET MILLIONS IN COMPENSATION, EVEN IF ‘TORTURE’ IS UNPROVEN………..!
(Wednesday July 7 2010 by Alison Little, Deputy Political Editor http://www.express.co.uk).
TERROR suspects who claim – British security services were – complicit in their torture are in line to get – millions in compensation even if a court refutes their – allegations, it emerged yesterday.
On home front, in Ontario flourishes culture of crime at Government / Ministerial level!
Premier of Ontario, (caring for people, Province) is being deceived by own Government Agencies which are overtaken by criminal/terror element and are sabotaging Premier’s initiatives.
In Ontario Company commits crimes against population in 115 Countries.
Despite fact, that Government Agencies were aware of the situation for many years did not do any thing to rehabilitate the system (provided cover up for those activities).
People in position of power are promoting (became accessory) to domestic and a Global terrorism!
Despite Premier’s clearly defined mission/ vision of improving quality of governance in Ontario and improving quality of lives for all Ontarians, Government Agencies refused to report crimes against me and General Public to Police / Authorities. Many key Government Agencies are dysfunctional and criminal.
Situation demands urgent attention and a Public Inquiry!
Ontario’s Human Rights Commission as well as Tribunal of Human Rights is perpetuating culture of crime and violations of Human Rights in Ontario (operates as a coordination centre, predator / violator of Human Rights). Acts on behalf of Organizations violating all Laws and Legislatives and committing crimes against Citizens.
Tribunal acts as a coordinating link amongst Government Agencies committing crimes against Citizens.
Apotex managed to compromise operational integrity, mandate etc. of key Government Agencies, Boards, Commissions, some Tribunals, which suppose to protect General Public.
Apotex developed integrated and very successful network of crime in Ontario.
Ontario become safe haven for big Corporations engaged in criminal activities?
Private Corporation controls Lawyers, Doctors, Government Agencies etc.?
OHR Tribunal as well as Ontario Labour Board, WSiB, Ontario Ombudsmen, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Worker Advisor Office, Fair Practices Commission and many other Government Agencies which repeatedly refused to report to Police crimes against me and General Public.
OHR Commission, OHR Tribunal, WSiB, Labour Board as well as other Government Agencies refused to report acts of Domestic and Global terrorism to Authorities/ Police.
Apotex become a bully who harms / attacks people who express concerns in area of Public Safety or are weaker or unable to defend themselves. Apotex exposed own employees to appalling and atrocious conditions at work.
In Canada/Ontario injured workers tremendously suffer every day and YES, THEY DO DIE EVERY DAY WITH OUT ANY HELP!
“Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool…
Yet who knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.”
Company got engaged in intentional malicious conduct violating all statutes with a reckless indifference. It acted in the face of a perceived risk that its actions will violate all laws.
SUBJECTED ME TO TORTURE, RETRIBUTION, DISCRIMINATION and HERRASMENT (EXPRESSED CONCERNS IN AREA OF HEALTH AND SAFETY, PRODUCT CONTAMINATION etc.).
Apotex did knowingly and willfully make a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statements and representation in a matter within the jurisdiction of the Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Tribunal and other Government Agencies, DENIED MEDICAL HELP as well obstructed Canadian Constitution etc.
Apotex committed many counts of perverting the course of justice or intending to pervert the course of justice, many counts of perjury, criminal conspiracy, criminal negligence, criminal recruitment of false witnesses, attempted murder, did cause permanent disability, irreparable damage. Issues and/or events which occurred after my departure from Employer are also in full are Apotex’s liabilities due to fact that Apotex actively sabotaged legal /administrative proceedings in all Government Agencies in question. Preliminary matters are that Apotex /Government Agencies in premeditated manner are torturing me for MANY, MANY years and pending. Company/ Government Agencies act without any consideration for human rights.
I was and am tortured by Apotex, Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario’s Ombudsmen Office, Office of the Worker Adviser, Ontario Human Rights Commission/Tribunal and some more Agencies. Canadian Government institutions mandated to assist General Public in time of misfortune, suffer and despair selected to engage in criminal activities and assist criminal Corporation which is stone waling an Ontarian / victim with life threatening medical conditions. Those Institutions deprived me from Constitutional and Law protection. Apotex and its accomplices denied me medical help, deprived me of all means of sustaining myself and are not regretful. Apotex, Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario’s Ombudsmen Office sentenced me and my family for life of suffer, despair, hunger and poverty. Apotex, Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario’s Ombudsmen Office shattered my and my family’s dreams and future. Apotex many times derailed my attempts to get help and justice.
Apotex with Government Agencies subjected me to the most horrifying experiences imaginable. Apotex and Government Agencies denied me medical help, Constitutional and Law protection, deprived me of ability/all means to provide for my self.
December 2nd, 2010 at 11:58 pm
Apotex’s (employer’s) conduct at the time of my termination was conducted in bad faith, dishonestly, in a manner that caused public embarrassment, was callous, shocking, in blatant disregard of my (employee’s) dignity and well-being.
I was most vulnerable / very sick and hence, most in need of protection (both economic and personal).
It was/is a traumatic event for me. Termination was accompanied by acts of bad faith in the manner of discharge and the results were/are especially devastating.
I believe that in the course of dismissal employers ought to be candid, reasonable, honest and forthright with their employees and should refrain from engaging in conduct that is unfair or in bad faith by being for example, untruthful, misleading or unduly insensitive.
Apotex tortured me during my employment and does it for 7 years after termination (pending). Apotex deprived me of all medical, economical and all other help
February 26th, 2011 at 9:05 am
Hi,
Amongst documents I received and reviewed FILE PROVIDED BY WSiB (volume 1& 2) and I am shocked to see how “fatally flawed” was investigative /adjudicative process conducted by WSiB.
Simply it is not possible to logically follow the pathway taken by the adjudicator (s).
WSiB provided Fragmented / selected / ILLEGITIMATE / not readable copies of Documents / Reports, arranged in illogical manner.
*Most of my correspondence to WSiB is missing.
*My letters included in the File are decimated.
*Sentences from Doctor’s Reports are “cut /paste” by Adjudicator (s) out of context in order to negatively impact my Case.
*Adjudicator’s conclusions portrait me as an uncooperative / difficult, some haw fraudulent Complainant while not indicating facts, that I was / am very sick / not mobile and I was constantly miss guided, purposely confused / run around , patronized. I was defrauded by Adjudicators giving me contradicting requests / orders in order to exhaust me / my resources and derail my Claim.
Example:
*I was ordered to obtain Employment and CPP Records from Government on my own other wise I was accused of non cooperation. It was for me a long and difficult process.
Then while I got it, Adjudicator refused to honor them under pretense that WSiB has to obtain all Records on its own because it must be from unbiased source.
*Next time Adjudicator requested /ordered me to obtain by my self Medical Records from the Hospital.
Again I had to struggle to get in to Hospital, pay Fee and send it to Adjudicator (WSiB). Again it was a long and painful process because of my medical disabling conditions / financial situation.
After that again, Adjudicator informed me, that she (WSiB) MUST GET THOSE RECORDS INDEPENDENTLY IN UNBIAS MANNER. Again it takes months to get that request fulfilled etc.
In such manner WSiB was dealing with every thing involving my Claim.
*WSiB included in forwarded to you File old Reports from my Doctors which I apparently did “alter” by removing Doctors names in order to protect them from WSiB’s harassment, instead of attaching not “altered” replacement ( full set of Reports) which I promptly re – send on Adjudicator’s request.
*WSiB purged my File out of Dr. JeeJeebhoy’s (cardiologist) statement “NUMBER OF TIMES HE TRIED TO SAY TO ME, THAT HIS MEDICAL CONDITIONS ARE WORK RELATED, BUT I REFUSED TO BELIVE HIM”! – and she started to treat me for illusionally condition which I did not have and as result of her activity I did end up on ER in the Hospital!
*Also WSiB / Adjudicators did conceal / not take for consideration Dermatologist’s letter send directly to WSiB INDICATEING / CONFORMING MY “VITILIGO “AS AN OCUPATIONAL DESISE RESULTING FROM WORK PLACE EXPOSURES etc. Adjudicators insisted on denying my “Vitiligo” claim despite Dermatologist’s (Doctor from Hospital’s Occupational Health Clinic) LETTER CLEARLI /DEFINITELY DIAGNOSING THIS CONDITION AS OCCUPATIONAL and despite provided by me Literature and other doctors diagnoses.
*WSiB includes some Record / “my” Application to WSiB which apparently I forwarded many years ago and which WSiB with valor denied, while truths are that cited Application was pro- actively processed and forwards by Union at the work place during STRIKE period while Company started to ship production out to Long Beach – California.
I never was out of work because of alleged “claimed disability” –“A HEARING LOSS” and I did not precede ON MY OWN with that Application at any point in time. THAT IS THE REASON, WHY MY APLICATION WAS CLOUSED NOT DENIED!
* WSiB CLAIMS THAT I DID NOT HAVE DOCTOR’s / MEDICAL EXAMS DURING 2004 – 2005 PERIOD.
My irregular examinations during 2004-2005 years were results of number of factors:
*I did not have a family Doctor after I moved from one CITY to another
*I was very sick and I could not get around in order to get new Physician (no Doctor wanted to take a new and sick patient).
*Contacted Doctors did not want to talk about work relations with my medical problems. Wanted to treat me for imaginary conditions while deteriorating my health.
*I did not have any means of transportation nor any resources to help my self while suffering depression, Parkinsonism and very many other very horrifying physical/neurological (impaired) problems and list can go on..:).
March 10th, 2011 at 2:44 am
Dear Sir / Madam,
Thank you very much for very professional preparation of documents for my Case which I received on Feb 22/ 2011.
Amongst I received and reviewed FILE PROVIDED BY WSiB (volume 1& 2) and I am shocked to see how “fatally flawed” was investigative /adjudicative process conducted by WSiB.
Simply it is not possible to logically follow the pathway taken by the adjudicator (s).
WSiB provided Fragmented / selected / ILLEGITIMATE / not readable copies of Documents / Reports, arranged in illogical manner.
*Most of my correspondence to WSiB is missing.
*My letters included in the File are decimated.
*Sentences from Doctor’s Reports are “cut /paste” by Adjudicator (s) out of context in order to negatively impact my Case.
*Adjudicator’s conclusions portrait me as an uncooperative / difficult, some haw fraudulent Complainant while not indicating facts, that I was / am very sick / not mobile and I was constantly miss guided, purposely confused / run around , patronized. I was defrauded by Adjudicators giving me contradicting requests / orders in order to exhaust me / my resources and derail my Claim.
Example:
*I was ordered to obtain Employment and CPP Records from Government on my own other wise I was accused of non cooperation. It was for me a long and difficult process.
Then while I got it, Adjudicator refused to honor them under pretense that WSiB has to obtain all Records on its own because it must be from unbiased source.
*Next time Adjudicator requested /ordered me to obtain by my self Medical Records from the Hospital.
Again I had to struggle to get in to Hospital, pay Fee and send it to Adjudicator (WSiB). Again it was a long and painful process because of my medical disabling conditions / financial situation.
After that again, Adjudicator informed me, that she (WSiB) MUST GET THOSE RECORDS INDEPENDENTLY IN UNBIAS MANNER. Again it takes months to get that request fulfilled etc.
In such manner WSiB was dealing with every thing involving my Claim.
*WSiB included in forwarded to you File old Reports from my Doctors which I apparently did “alter” by removing Doctors names in order to protect them from WSiB’s harassment, instead of attaching not “altered” replacement ( full set of Reports) which I promptly re – send on Adjudicator’s request.
*WSiB purged my File out of Dr. JeeJeebhoy’s (cardiologist) statement “NUMBER OF TIMES HE TRIED TO SAY TO ME, THAT HIS MEDICAL CONDITIONS ARE WORK RELATED, BUT I REFUSED TO BELIVE HIM”! – and she started to treat me for illusionally condition which I did not have and as result of her activity I did end up on ER in the Hospital!
*Also WSiB / Adjudicators did conceal / not take for consideration Dermatologist’s letter send directly to WSiB INDICATEING / CONFORMING MY “VITILIGO “AS AN OCUPATIONAL DESISE RESULTING FROM WORK PLACE EXPOSURES etc. Adjudicators insisted on denying my “Vitiligo” claim despite Dermatologist’s (Doctor from Hospital’s Occupational Health Clinic) LETTER CLEARLI /DEFINITELY DIAGNOSING THIS CONDITION AS OCCUPATIONAL and despite provided by me Literature and other doctors diagnoses.
*WSiB includes some Record / “my” Application to WSiB which apparently I forwarded many years ago and which WSiB with valor denied, while truths are that cited Application was pro- actively processed and forwards by Union at the work place during STRIKE period while Company started to ship production out to Long Beach – California.
I never was out of work because of alleged “claimed disability” –“A HEARING LOSS” and I did not precede ON MY OWN with that Application at any point in time. THAT IS THE REASON, WHY MY APLICATION WAS CLOUSED NOT DENIED!
* WSiB CLAIMS THAT I DID NOT HAVE DOCTOR’s / MEDICAL EXAMS DURING 2004 – 2005 PERIOD.
My irregular examinations during 2004-2005 years were results of number of factors:
*I did not have a family Doctor after I moved from one CITY to another
*I was very sick and I could not get around in order to get new Physician (no Doctor wanted to take a new and sick patient).
*Contacted Doctors did not want to talk about work relations with my medical problems. Wanted to treat me for imaginary conditions while deteriorating my health.
*I did not have any means of transportation nor any resources to help my self while suffering depression, Parkinsonism and very many other very horrifying physical/neurological (impaired) problems and list can go on..:).
Dear Sir, please PREVENT Mr. Carl Peterson (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP) and Ms. K. Koss (Apotex) on Criminal Grounds of Inadmissibility / committing acts which constitute the essential elements of a crime involving moral turpitude ( FROUD, CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY AND MANY MORE) , from participation in WSIAT’s adjudicative process. An attempt or conspiracy to commit such a crime is included in this ground. They committed/ committing acts which constitute the essential elements of a violation or conspiracy to violate many laws / regulations in Canada.
The convictions arose not from a single trial or arose from a single scheme of conduct involving moral turpitude but from years long PATERN OF BEHAVIOUR.(evidence).
Those individuals engaged in criminal activities on behalf of Criminal Corporation FOR MANY YEARS AND THEY MUST BE STOPED!
I know /have reason to believe that those individuals are known assisters, abettors, conspirators, colluders with others in the illicit acts to torture, discriminate, denie medical help to me / a disabled person.
It is submitted , that Apotex / Counsel, Mr. Carl Peterson (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP) as well as Ms. K. Koss (Apotex) should be prevented from abuse and obstruction of WSIAT’s adjudicative process and from making any frivolous, vexatious , trivial , made in bad faith suggestions with out any merit / scientific / legal bases further tormenting/ torturing me /a victim. Thos individuals should be charged with Contempt of WSIAT and all other Administrative Boards, Commissions, Tribunals processes etc.
Mr. Carl Peterson (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP) and Ms. K. Koss (Apotex) falsified all records provided by them to all Government Agencies and engaged others / employees in criminal conspiracy (documented) which untimely further deteriorated(s) my state of health.
Those individuals purposely are omitting very critical evidence and medical conditions (or are reducing it in to insignificance).
For many years those individuals were committing crimes against me / a victim by falsifying/ concealing evidence / Documents, soliciting criminal witnesses etc.
Mr. Carl Peterson (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP) and Ms. K. Koss (Apotex) got engaged in intentional malicious conduct on behalf of Criminal Corporation violating all statutes with a reckless indifference. They acted in the face of a perceived risk that their actions will violate all laws, torture and destroy / kill suffering, sick person.
They perpetuated TORTURE, TORMENT, RETRIBUTION, DISCRIMINATION and HERRASMENT etc.
Mr. Carl Peterson, (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP) and Ms. Koss did knowingly and willfully make a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statements and representation in a matter within the jurisdiction of the Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Tribunal and other Government Agencies, in the process DENIED MEDICAL HELP as well as obstructed Canadian Constitution, Legal System etc.
Mr. Carl Peterson (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP) and Ms. Koss committed many counts of perverting the course of justice or intending to pervert the course of justice, many counts of perjury, criminal conspiracy, criminal negligence, criminal recruitment of false witnesses, attempted murder, did contribute to my permanent disability, irreparable damage. Issues and/or events which occurred after my departure from Employer are also in full are Apotex’s (Mr. Peterson’s -Company’s Counsel and Ms. Koss as accomplices /executors ) liabilities due to fact that those individuals on behalf of Apotex actively sabotaged legal /administrative proceedings in all Government Agencies in question. Preliminary matters are that Mr. Peterson (Company’s Counsel) and Ms. Koss (Apotex) in premeditated manner are torturing me for MANY, MANY years and pending. They / Company /accomplices act without any consideration for the human rights and my well being despite their awareness of my situation and familiarity with my File.
Apotex is defiant, not regretful, with out remorse, not willing to correct wrong doings.
Mr. Carl Peterson,(Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP) and Ms. K. Koss (Apotex) falsified or concealed all records provided by them to Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Tribunal and other Government Agencies (collectively Government) and engaged other people in criminal conspiracy (documented) which untimely further deteriorates my state of health. On behalf of Company they committed many counts of perverting the course of justice or intending to pervert the course of justice, many counts of perjury, criminal conspiracy, criminal negligence, criminal recruitment of false witnesses, attempted murder, did contribute to permanent disability, irreparable damage.
Those individuals got involved in my Case, purposely were omitting /altering very critical evidence and medical conditions (or were reducing it in to insignificance) and were paid for it while limiting my professional and personal life, making challenging my social life, destroyed my marriage, imposed extreme hardship on my family and relatives/friends and in vicious / malicious manner on on going bases are preventing me from enjoying my Constitutional Right to obtain medical help, be able to provide for myself etc.
In near future I may select to proceed with CIVIL/ CRIMINAL/ LEGAL ACTIOMN AGAINST Mr. Carl Peterson , his Firm (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP) and Ms. K. Koss (Apotex).
Mr. Carl Peterson (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP):
*Despite his OATH TO HER MAJESTY “JUSTICE” TO SERVE LOYALLY, JUSTIFETLY THOSE IN NEED /JUSTICE SYSTEM, unfortunately he selected to utilize his knowledge / expertise in criminal, amoral, unprincipled manner. He explored /utilized gross deficiencies of the Regulatory System and acted against very sick /disadvantaged / UNREPRESENTED ex-employee of criminal Corporation contributing great deal to my suffer and to my misery for many, many years.
* Mr. Carl Peterson WITH OUT HASITATION COLLECTED HIS HIGH SALLARY, WHILE FOR YEARS DESTROYING SICK / SUFFERING PERSON NOT ABLE TO AFORD MEDICATION , GROCERIES AND ANY THING ELSE AND SPENDING YEARS BEING BEDRIDDEN IN EXCRUCIATING PAIN.
*He could not restrain his bad impulses.
*He prevented me from access to Lawyers, to the legal system, to justice!
*Mr. Carl Peterson did every thing in his capacity to make me unsuccessful in my drive for help and justice despite his awareness of my medical conditions / personal situation and the evidence conforming my allegations.
*Mr. Carl Peterson directly disrespected me twice in the period of my struggle while during Mediation process in Labour Board he abandoned the proceedings and left the Conference Room with out saying any thing (out of the blue he got up and left the proceedings).
*The same behaviour he demonstrated second time around during Mediation at Human Rights Commission living Room with out saying a world (out of the blue he got up and left the proceedings).
*Mr. Carl Peterson wants to participate in judicial process conducted by WSIAT but he is not in position to make any decisions nor he has any authorisations to act on behalf of the Company to mediate any thing ( he did not forward any documents supporting his powers accept Participation Authorisation). The same situation was every were else.
*Appears, that Mr. Carl Peterson wants yet again to derail this time around WSIAT’S PROCES.
*This is fundamentally undemocratic and not acceptable!
Legal profession changed very negatively in Canada.
It becomes a business interested in making profit not making judgments based on merits.
*Mr. Carl Peterson (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP) becomes enabler for Apotex! He manipulated system/ Government Agencies in order to torture, torment, deny of all civil/ constitutional rights, medical help to a disabled person etc.
*“EVERY LAWYER IS GOING TO GO IN TO THE OFFICE TODAY AND COMMIT FROUD”- A TOP LEGAL SCHOLAR AND EX-BAY STREET LAWYER PHILIP SLAYTON TALKS ABOUT HOW LAWYERS BECOME GREADY, UNPRINCIPLED ENABLERS OF THE RICH – THE CORRUPTION OF THIS PROFESSION . “LAWYERS ARE RATS!”
Ms. K. Koss (Apotex):
• Despite numerous letters from WSiB demanding Safety Data from Employer, Ms. K. Koss for many months stagnated process claiming, that SHE MUST PREPARE /fabricate THEM (SHE DID SORTE OUT WHAT WAS IN SUPPORT OF MY CLAIM) and provided selective / bias info.
• Ms. K. Koss obtain “list of products” that I was exposed to (?) from dysfunctional employee who during his employment created an accident at work place and he become a victim of it. Later on he become Apotex’s “safety” rep. and a criminally motivated “witness”.
• She miss represented herself claiming , that she did on regular bases meet with me to discuss safety issues and to do some safety quizzes while the truth are that she started her employment with Apotex 3 (three) years after I was criminally terminated.
• Ms. K. Koss Provided number of quizzes to WSiB , which she claimed that I did complete during employment , while in fact all of them were completed by me in one / first day of my employment in 1997.
• Ms. K. Koss altered my personal / Company’s medical records withholding / canceling all Records indicating my medical problems during my employment
• Ms. K. Koss cancels Company’s Record indicating , that I was perfectly healthy before my employment with Apotex
• She removed Company’s Records generated by Health and Safety Clinic recording fact that I never was issued any mask / protective equipment,
• She counseled record, that Company was under construction during my 6,5 years of employment and all equipment / systems were invalidated/ not functional and buildings were substantially demolished with piles of debris constantly present in Manufacturing /Packaging areas during processes.
• She concealed fact that during my employment Company did not have a Nurse on the stuff NOR OFFICIALY ORGANIZED SAFETY DEPARTMENT.
• Ms. K. Koss CONSEALED FACT , THAT VERY MANY EMPLOYEES SUFERRED DEADLY MEDICAL PROBLEMS AS RESULT OF / FROM UNPROTECTED EXPOSURES TO VERY POTENT ACTIVES
• She did not disclose that most Apotex’s employees from my period of employment were temporary and are not employed any more.
• She did not admit as Company’s Record show, that I worked with out any management, with out any in process quality control, on night shifts and that all my allegations are cross referenced by evidence.
• Etc., etc., etc.
*I am asking WSIAT TO PROCESS MY REQUEST OF ALLOVING ME TO PROCIDE WITH LEGAL/ CIVIL / CRIMINAL ACTION AGAINST APOTEX IF COMPANY REFUSES TO SETTLE MY CLAIM IN SATISFIING TO ME MANNER.
*I AM ASKING WSIAT TO PROCESS MY REQUEST TO ALLOW ME TO PROCEED IN LEGAL MANNER AGAINST GOVERNMENT OF ONTARIO AND ANY ONE GUILTY OF CRIMES AGAINST ME IF I SELECT TO DO SO.
*I AM REQUESTING FROM APOTEX CERTIFIED CONSENT TO PAY ADDITIONAL money ($Cn…:) TO MY FAMILY IN CASE OF MY DEATH, UNCONDITIONALLY / REGARDLESS OF REASONS /CAUSES of my death, BECAUSE ON ANY CIRCUMSTANCE DIRECTLY / INDDIRECTLY MY DEATH WOULD / will BE RESULTING FROM MY MEDICAL CONDITIONS / DUE TO WORK RELATED UNPROTECTED EXPOSURES TO advanced structural composite materials /chemicals used in the manufacturing processes which have been classified as to have a co- carcinogenic and/or synergistic effect and which overwhelmed my system. As result of Company’s negligence (unprotected exposure to a potent immunosuppressant, brain function controlling drugs (psychiatric), antidepressants, narcotics, blood pressure /composition controlling drugs which overwhelmed my system- I AM DISABLED). Experts agree that most cancers are caused by our bodies or parts of them being exposed to certain substances over long periods of time. These cancer causing substances are called carcinogens.
(NHS 2001). Chemical carcinogens
The chemical agents of cancer have become entrenched in our world in two ways: first, and ironically, through man’s search for a better and easier way of life; second, because the manufacture and sale of such chemicals has become an accepted part of our economy and our way of life.
(Carson 1962)
The main source of human exposures to carcinogens today is man-made chemical compounds. By 1985 it could be stated as a fact that ‘nearly all of the synthetic [man-made] chemicals regularly used in industry today did not exist 40 years ago [in the 1940s]. Of the 45,000 toxic chemicals listed by the US National Institute of Safety and Health (NIOSH) in 1980, 2,500 were identified as carcinogens, 2,700 as mutagens [causing genetic change] and 300 as teratogens [causing malformation of an embryo]. Less than 7,000 had been adequately tested.
(Grossart 1985)
This is old, not new knowledge. Yet it was only during the last 15 years of the 20th century that medical science began to associate the unprecedented growth rates of many diseases with modern chemicals. While in the same 15-year period some chemical compounds were banned or reduced (in number and use) through tighter regulations, man-made chemicals continued to be developed and marketed in an ever-widening range of products and applications. The universal application of man-made chemicals in every sphere of modern life has made exposure to them an unavoidable, lifelong reality for each one of us. The vast majority of industrial chemicals have never been tested for their potential to cause or promote cancer.
Synthetic chemicals are in some cases proven to harm – and in other cases suspected of being harmful – to human health for a range of reasons:
• the majority are based on carbon, and for this reason, are particularly dangerous to us because being based on carbon, the chemistry of all life, they readily enter human tissues and seriously disrupt the body’s complex processes and complex chemical reactions.
(Harte et al ‘Toxics A-Z’ 1991)
• many of those which have been tested are known or suspected carcinogens
• increasing numbers are found to disrupt the function of the endocrine (hormone) system. This group has particular significance for hormone-related cancers such as breast cancer
• some are both carcinogenic and hormone-disruptive e.g. atrazine, an agricultural pesticide widely used in the UK
• the increasing numbers found to ‘persist’ (remain a long time in the environment) as a result of being designed to be ‘stable compounds’ which are therefore not broken down in the environment by micro-organisms and in the human body by metabolic processes
• the increasing numbers found to be ‘bioaccumulative’ (build-up in the body, mostly in fatty tissue). Chemical compounds that accumulate in living tissues increase in number and concentration as they move up through the food chain. It follows therefore, that humans, at the top of the food chain, will have the highest concentrations
• the capacity of many to cross the blood-brain and placental barriers
• the increased risk of toxicity resulting from the combined effects of synthetic chemicals on the body.
There are:
‘adverse effects observable in the pattern of human disease, both in foetal malformations and the increase in the incidence of cancer – particularly in young people – and we can observe that those changes have taken place over the same period of time as the introduction of these novel chemicals.’
(Howard 2004)
Several hundred chemicals are found in a wide range of commercial products and conditions we unknowingly encounter in our daily lives. Often overlooked by regulators is the variation in effects on a population from similar exposures, as recorded by biochemist and cancer researcher Ross Hume Hall: ‘Individuals vary greatly in their susceptibility to toxic chemicals, and the differences between men and women can be punishingly large … Women thus can fall victim to legal limits of residues of pesticides and waste chemicals in their supermarket grapes or in their apple juice. Even at their best, EPA [Environmental Protection Agency, USA] regulations disregard the susceptibility to cancer of 50 per cent of the population.’
(The Ecologist 1998)
Assured by periodic statements from government and industry about the safety of regulated chemicals, and lacking the information to challenge such assurances, most of us are quite unaware that: ‘little has been done to prevent exposure to carcinogenic chemicals in the environment, despite ample evidence that chemical pollution of our air, water, food and the workplace is the major cause of cancer.’
(Epstein 1990)
Lately, my many medical conditions deteriorated and impose on me a lot of difficulties and enormous stress.
During my employment and after I developed array of many very serious medical conditions amongst lungs problem (due to product side effects- reported to Superiors and documented). My autonomic function of lungs (a function of the respiratory cycles) has been compromised.
More and more frequently I am stopping to breathe with out a warning. These are relatively short in duration episodes but I am not in control of them. Despite my conscious mind I struggle in-vein to take air and I can not make my lungs to move. I suspect that my neurons / neurotransmitters are affected / damaged (altered function / communication) by active ingredients at work.
As result of all my medical conditions I fear, that such undertaking as a trip for a hearing may end up for me fatally. For very long time I do not go any where at all (I am bedridden).
I scrolled trough Tribunal’s website and I discovered, that Tribunal’s extra ordinary powers do allow Tribunal to make its own rules of proceedings which allow performing Hearings in any way where appropriate ( “any part of a proceeding may be conducted in person or by way of a written hearing or electronically). The Tribunal may exercise any of its powers under these Rules on its own initiative or at the request of a party as well the Tribunal may waive or vary the application of any of these Rules where appropriate”).
Due to my circumstance, written format would be the best for me.
Practice Direction:
”Powers of Practice and Procedure 2.3.2.2 Choosing the Method of Resolution
The ARO, in consultation with the parties, will determine whether to proceed by written
submissions (also called a “non-appearance hearing”) or by an oral hearing. The Board seems to prefer non-appearance hearings.
AROs will generally discourage oral hearings.”
Respondent’s all alleged “preliminary” issues do not stand up to my conformed allegations and due to fact that I did forward all evidence challenging alleged issues as well as due to fact, that Respondent admitted all my allegations I am asking Tribunal, whether it is absolutely necessary for me to attend in person the hearing on Respondent’s issues which are not valid and serve Respondent as a tool to challenge my Application on technicalities.
I am asking Tribunal to explore / implement alternative method of proceeding (if possible) to allow me some physical and emotional relief and conclude my Application in favorable for me manner.
Due to fact, that I do not have any legal representation and due to fact that Apotex subjected me to the most horrifying experiences imaginable – Company criminally concealed names/ nature of processed products. Company processed products with out regulatory permits in Facility not approved for those products (not providing any personal protection for Personnel), did not post Safety Data Shits , Work Orders and did not disclose short and long term health hazards do to massive unprotected exposures) and ever since it denied me medical help, I was /am under influence / heavily impaired on psychiatric / antidepressants, narcotics and other very potent medications (conditions may not be reversible and may last a life time ) I will not be able to effectively / aggressively defend my self in articulated manner due to medical condition (severely reduced motor skills, abnormal vision, my brain feels as if it’s “swimming inside of my skull, significantly compromised speech mechanism, frequent thought blockages, memory disturbances and many more of other serious neurological problems. I can not comprehend / rationalize almost any thing on the spot. It takes long time for me to ” get it”
Best Regards,
(Apotex’s victim)
Pc:
CIVIL LIABILITY ARISING FROM BAD FAITH
The concept of bad faith
“Bad faith” also has not been given a precise definition by the Canadian courts. However, it has been frequently associated with actions involving malice, fraud, collusion, illegal conduct, dishonesty, abuse of power, discrimination, unreasonable conduct, ill-motivated conduct or procedural unfairness.
Justice Southin in the case of MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. v. Galiano Island Trust Committee3 articulated the concept of bad faith as follows:
The words bad faith have been used in municipal and administrative case law to cover a wide range of conduct in the exercise of legislatively delegated authority. Bad faith has been held to include dishonesty, fraud, bias, conflict of interest, discrimination, abuse of power, corruption, oppression, unfairness, and conduct that is unreasonable. The words have also been held to include conduct based on an improper motive, or undertaken for an improper, indirect or ulterior purpose. In all these senses, bad faith describes the exercise of delegated authority that is illegal, and renders the consequential act void. And in all these senses bad faith must be proven by evidence of illegal conduct, adequate to support the finding of fact.
*Complaints Against the Government of Ontario
Complaints against the Government of Ontario should name the respondents as follows:
Her Majesty the Queen, in right of Ontario, as represented by the
Minister of ________ and (any personal respondents).
• The Government Ministry representing the Crown should be described in the particulars of the complaint, but the complaint should cite the Minister, by title (not by his or her personal name, e.g., Sally Martin) and should not cite the Ministry. In rare cases, where the Minister himself or herself is alleged to have directly been involved in the discrimination (e.g., a claim of sexual harassment) he or she can be named personally.
• The Complaint against the Provincial Crown will be served on the director of the Legal Services Branch of the Ministry in question.
• The Deputy Minister should not be named as a personal respondent unless he or she had involvement in the circumstances surrounding the allegations in the complaint and would otherwise be named as a personal respondent in keeping with Commission practice.
February 25, 2011 12:46 PM
Andrew said:
Dear Sir/Madam,
Cardiologist (Dr. J,) almost killed me with her experiments on me with array of medications for illusionary medical condition which I did/do not have and for which she was aggressively treating me with out any evidence of the condition (tumor of adrenal gland).
What it is important to notice, that Dr. J. in Documents to WSiB conforms , that prior to employment with Apotex I was perfectly healthy and now I do have VERY SEVERE HYPERTENSION (AMONGST MANY OTHER LIFE TREATENING MEDICAL CONDITIONS) WHICH IS DETERIORATEING AND RESULTED IN MY HEARTH DAMMAGE ( BP 235/125 ).
Cardiologist Dr. J. purposely misdiagnosed my medical conditions and provided false info to WSiB? She provided in writing statement to WSiB: “NUMBER OF TIMES HE TRIED TO SAY TO ME, THAT HIS MEDICAL CONDITIONS ARE WORK RELATED, BUT I REFUSED TO BOLIVE HIM”!!!!!!!!
Despite my cautioning about my saturation with chemicals (Apotex -my former employer ravaged me /my system by exposing me with out any personal / collective protection to well over 4000 very potent chemicals / actives) and need on her behalf to be very selective with prescribing any treatments, she treated me with array of drugs for an illusionary condition which I did not have. As result of her treatment MY CONDITION DRAMATICALLY DETERIORATED AND I DID END UP ON EMERGENCE IN THE HOSPITAL!
Doctor from ER /Hospital told me during his examination, that I am being treated with wrong medications for wrong conditions and that he does not want to harm me any further? He refused to provide me with Letter stating/conforming this, but because I recognized, that actually he has knowledge and compassion / dedication for his work and his Patients I wanted to become his regular Patient in his Private Practice.
Unfortunately in less then one year after my encounter with him in the Hospital and subsequent visit in his Private Practice he disappeared from the Hospital and from his Private Practice “Alliance with other Doctors”.
IS THIS CO -ACCIDENTAL OR RETRIBUTION FROM BIG PHARMA?!
We have well documented case of breach of fiduciary duty / negligence.
-Company’s conduct was planned and deliberate,
- Company’s intend and motive was clear,
- The defendant persisted in the outrageous conduct over a lengthily period of time,
- The defendant attempted to conceal and cover up its conduct,
- Defendant was aware that what it was doing was wrong,
- The defendant profited from its misconduct,
- Defendant knew that violation was deeply personal to me (the plaintiff),
- Company understood my financial /personal / medical vulnerability,
So far Company’s misconduct went unpunished.
We need to achieve the objectives of retribution, deterrence and denunciation of defendant’s misconduct to deter the defendant and others from similar misconduct in the future and to mark the community’s collective condemnation.
The Company victimized me and subjected to physical, emotional, mental and financial suffering/damage. It did /do commit atrocities against me / employees/ General Public!!!!!!!!
Corporation is limiting the rights of injured EMPLOEES to hold it accountable for their negligence, misdeeds, and other wrongful acts by preventing litigations.
Corporation have waged a well-organized campaign to prevent me (the injured by products and criminal negligence) from bringing lawsuits against corporate wrongdoings.
Company imposes incredible obstacles and arbitrary limits on me when I file complaints about criminal acts, discrimination, retribution etc.
Company adopted an unrelentingly aggressive stance against me while I expressed INTERNALLY AND IN OPEN MANNER concerns in area of Health and Safety and quality of the products / contamination etc.!!!
In Ontario, due to Government’s Legislation of “consolidation” of COMMISSIONS, BOARDS, TRYBUNALS etc. dealing with LABOUR FORCE MANAGEMENT, SYSTEM CREATED institutionalized /SYSTEMIC MAFIA, WHICH COLLECTIVELLY ACTS TO CRIMINALLY OBUSE, TORMENT, TORTURE, DEFROUD AND EVERY THING ALSE IN AREA OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES AGAINST LABOUR FORCE OF ONTARIO.
WSiB – the complete absence of any resemblance to law whatsoever, where WSiB makes up and changes the rules, ignores its own rules, and imposes twisted versions of rules on any one standing up for injured workers.
We do have thousands of examples of very refined and LEGISLATED banditry against injured workers by WSiB (and other Government Agencies- accomplices in terrorism against injured workers). The CRIMINAL NET INCLUDES (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) Workplace Safety & Insurance Board, Labour Relations Board (Ministry of Labour), Ontario Ombudsman, Fair Practices Commission, Worker Adviser, Human Rights Commission, Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, (GOVERNMENT Agencies ).
Political correctness does not apply if we are dealing with criminal activities at such level and on such scale, causing so much harm to so many!
ALL OF THIS GOES ABOVE Public’s RADAR!
Nothing should collide with context of Publics debate about criminality of WSiB.
Injured workers tremendously suffer every day and YES DO DIE EVERY DAY WITH OUT ANY HELP!
NAZIES STYLE ON GRAND SCALE WITH ONLY ONE DIFFERENCE.
NAZIES DID ATROCITIES IN MUCH MORE HUMAIN WAY – GASSED OR SHOT WITH LIMITED CASES OF MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION ON PRISONERS OF DEATH CAMPS, WHILE WSiB /Big Pharma do it methodically and painfully long, subjecting to this whole population!
LONGER WITH MORE SUFFER, BETTER FOR BUSINESS!
OVER MEDICATION, UNNECESARRY MEDICAL /SURGICAL PROCIDINGS, SUBJECTION TO CHEMICAL/PHARMACOLOGICAL COMPOUNDS, PSYCHOLOGICAL WORFARE, by WSiB !!!!!!
All those institutions are terror Agencies governing them selves with out any scrutiny by independent Auditors / Public Inquiries.
WSiB’s “PROGRAMS” ARE DESIGN TO FURTHER VICTIMIZE INJURED WORKERS AND TO TRANSFER THEM AS FAST AS POSSIBLE FROM WSiB’s PAYROLL IN TO TAX payer’s payroll and to TERRORIZE ALL WHO THERE TO SUPPORT INJURED WORKERS ( INCLUDING Doctors / health providers etc.)
Almost All ADJUDICATORS/ ADVISERS, IN WSiB, WORKER ADVISER, FAIRNESS COMMISSION etc. ARE PREDATORS, PARASITES being pay by the very injured workers/ their families (people of Ontario) to do such carnage in society.
WSiB acts from position of power (criminal immunity) and further victimizes already suffering people.
WSiB Ontario – a criminal/ terror Agency!
WORNING TO ALL THOSE WHO ARE THERE TO SUPPORT CLAIMS OF INJURED WORKERS.
DOCTORS, HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS TERRORIZED BY WSiB WITH LEGISLATED CONSEQUENCES FOR SUPPORTING INJURED WORKERS.
WSiB HAS THE POWER TO RE- INTERPRET/ QUESTOION DOCTORS AND HEALTH PROVIDERS DIAGNOSIS AND OCUSE ANY ONE OF Fraud and non-compliance.
WSiB forcibly (by many means of coercions/ CRIMINAL MEANS etc.) forces injured workers to undergo unnecessary medical treatments (surgical proceedings, pharmacological treatments etc.) which often tremendously deteriorate injured workers conditions –often causing additional and irreversible damage. WSiB a criminal / terror Agency tormenting injured workers of Ontario and does it in legalized manner.
How come WSiB ( “INSURANCE AGENCY” ) MANAGED TO LEGISLATE CRIMINAL IMMUNITY AND MANY OTHER FAR REACHEING LEGISLATIVES ALLOWING AGENCY TO DO SURVELIANCE, TO INPOSE RULES ON INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESSES, TO FORCE INJURED WORKERS TO BE SUBJECTED TO UNNECESSARY MEDICAL / PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENTS etc.
ORGANIZED AND LEGALIZED CRIME!!!!!!!!!
We do not need to be concerned about any ALQUIDA/Taliban or leader of Libya – Colonel Gaddafi!!!!!!
WE DO HAVE TOTALITARISM / TORTURE/ TERROR /CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY RIGHT HERE IN ONTARIO / CANADA!
Stoned by Prescription
By Helke Ferrie
Imagine the media informing you that a jumbo has gone down, killing all on board. Imagine being informed of such an event every single day of the year – year after year for four decades. That’s about 140,000 people a year. And that’s what’s happening: the victims are people treated with properly prescribed legal drugs for properly diagnosed illnesses. They die from prescription drugs – not from their diseases. Some deaths are caused by the 187,000 known drug interactions nobody thought to check for, but most are from the drugs themselves. Add to these reported adverse reactions another 10 to 50% for the unreported cases. (April 1998 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.)
Millions don’t die, of course, and for them these drugs work – for a while. They live (sort of) with the so-called side effects: Aspirin seriously depletes vitamin C making you vulnerable to infection. Diuretics deplete potassium vital for heart and muscle function. The Pill depletes folic acid and vitamin C and vastly increases your risk of cancer, as do other synthetic sex hormones. Antibiotics, taken frequently, kill favorable intestinal bacteria and cause systemic candidiasis, which can trigger both cancer and autoimmune disease. The SSRI antidepressants (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors like Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft etc.) deplete the B vitamins, the detoxicant Selenium, the brain food zinc, the nerve and enzyme food magnesium, the bone builder calcium, the cancer preventives L-gluthathione and vitamin C (some diabetic medications do all of this also). Many SSRIs are addictive, tend to ruin your sex life, most are toxic to the liver, and they can reduce blood flow to the brain as well. All statin drugs, meant to lower bad cholesterol to prevent heart attacks, deplete Co-enzyme Q 10, the very stuff your heart needs most to function, and they greatly increase your chance of developing one of the worst autoimmune diseases: Lupus. Arthritis medications, steroidal or non-steroidal, deplete all of these vital nutrients, some are suspected carcinogens, all deplete essential fatty acids making one vulnerable to depression, psychosis, skin diseases and more. The non-steroidal ones called NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) can cause irreversible and fatal intestinal bleeding. Steroids after prolonged use are no longer absorbed by the stripped cell receptors leaving only painkillers. They also cause osteoporosis.
Among the “oops!” variety we find drugs like Thalidomide in the 1960s which caused tens of thousands of terrible birth defects before it was pulled off the market. In the 1980s the heart drug Tamocor killed literally thousands of people before it was pulled. CBC’s Ideas (March 13, 2001) aired the research into deadly drugs by Thomas Moore, a health policy analyst and author of Deadly Medicine. Moore observed, “So deeply embedded is the human desire to a have a pill …. [we] have suspended our normal critical faculties when it comes to drugs. We have something that every consumer should know is their right, and they never get it, and that is the right to informed consent.”
Consent is messy when big bucks are at stake. The main players in Big Pharma, as these companies call themselves, are Merck (market value in 1998 at US $ 140 billion), Bristol-Myers-Squibb ($100 billion), Johnson & Johnson ($ 93 billion), DuPont ($ 87 billion), Dow Chemical ($21 billion), Monsanto ($33 billion). Four-fifth of Big Pharma’s total budget serves only one fifth of the world’s population. As Robinson observes, “The drugs that are needed are not necessarily the drugs that sell” because drugs that work have expired patents and are needed by four fifth of the world without money.
I was stunned and fascinated (and absolutely sickened) by the fabulously researched and heart-poundingly well-written new bestseller by Jeffrey Simpson: Prescription Games and Eichenwald’s The Informant. Reading these requires a strong stomach and a serious case of lust for truth. For four decades these companies have consistently been first in return of revenues, assets, and equity, fifth in profit growth and fourth in total return for investors. Drug profits surpass all other Fortune 500 companies, and they have for forty years outperformed Standard & Poor’s 500 Index by 10% every year. All this mind-boggling wealth is made on drugs for cancer, cholesterol, smoking, hair loss, impotence, ulcers, menopause and depression. “Blockbuster drugs are harvested out of chronic diseases,” Simpson reports.
These astronomical profits (1,000% mark-up over production cost is the norm) became supported by taxpayers money, which pays for most of the actual drug development costs, ever since former Prime Minister Mulroney’s 1993 Bill C-91. In 1997 the US allowed pharmaceuticals to advertise to the consumer directly, exponentially increasing profits. Harvard university’s Jerry Avorn proved that prescription habits by doctors are overwhelmingly influenced by drug reps. Research has further shown, that what the drug reps tell the doctors is mostly hot air. For example, to ensure that sales for Prozac, whose patent expires this year, don’t drop too painfully fast for the manufacturer Eli Lilly (also the world’s premier manufacturer of biological warfare materials), it is now recommended for Premenstrual Syndrome. (PMS is well known to be mediated by magnesium, progesterone and essential fatty acid deficiencies.) Pharmaceutical reps wine and dine doctors, send them on vacations, offer up to $ US 40,000 per patient recruited for studies, or as Dr. T. Rohland of Nova Scotia reported in The Medical Post (Feb.9, 1999): “If [the drug companies] can no longer appeal to our greed by giving us gifts, then a new tactic is needed. How about our raging uncontrollable hormones? Enter the gorgeous, young, model-type drug reps.” One doctor kept track of drug rep visits and mailings (Medical Post May 22, 2001) which came to 452 promotional encounters in one year. In Canada, only Quebec and British Columbia have legislation prohibiting pharmacies from selling information on doctors’ prescription patterns to Big Pharma. In all other provinces this information is available and also used to influence the licensing bodies, the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, to conduct witch hunts against doctors who treat diseases instead of being accessories to making patients into cash cows.
The World Health Organization has recognized this “inherent” conflict of interest between legitimate business goals and social needs” for a long time – to no effect. Former Health Canada scientists, Dr. Michelle Brill-Edwards, provides the reason for this. She told Robinson: “The dilemma of those in power is not ‘Do you serve citizens versus do you serve corporations?’ That’s a no-brainer. People in power serve the corporations because they have the money.” But sometimes the human conflict can happen right within a pharmaceutical company: Merck’s CEO was appalled to learn that millions of Africans go blind every year from river blindness, a disease easily prevented with a derivative of the cheap heart-worm medication we give our dogs. He ended up defying his own board of directors and angry investors and donating millions to stop this illness – successfully.
Interestingly, these same companies also make the pesticides which cause all of the diseases in the first place, either directly by ingestion, skin contact or inhalation, or indirectly by dangerously depleting the nutrients in the foods. What an amazingly effective business strategy! Part of this strategy – logically – is to control research. This is a typical North American problem. In Europe most research is government funded and out of the reach of direct business interests. That’s why we get all that exciting research on nutritional and environmental medicine from Europe. In Canada and the US research is primarily funded by drug companies whose contracts always contain gag clauses preventing researchers from reporting negative findings, should these occur. Controlling research and clinical practice starts in the medical schools with the drug reps’ pizza parties. When MacMaster University, frustrated, declared their interns off limits to pharmaceutical reps, instructing these doctors of the future to read their research journals instead, the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association threatened to withdraw all funding (Star, Dec. 3, 1999).
Internationally famous blood researcher, Dr. Nancy Olivieri, found a drug to be toxic to the liver and wanted to change patient consent forms accordingly. Sick Children’s Hospital and the University of Toronto fired her to please the manufacturer Apotex. That backfired. Nobel laureates, Oxford and Harvard universities demanded an end to gag clauses. She was reinstated and this month the US based Civil Justice Foundation awarded her the prestigious Community Champion Award. The last recipient was Erin Brockovich.
Canada seems to figure prominently in this resistance movement. Internationally renowned researcher Dr. David Healy, hired by U of T was fired before he started following a speech about the dangers of Prozac (suicide, violence, and brain damage). This one backfired even worse. The editors of the world’s most prestigious medical journals issued joint editorials on September 12th condemning Big Pharma’s attempt to control research and clinical practice. They will henceforth refuse publication of Big Pharma-funded research unless all the data are made available and gag clauses vanish. At the same time, 27 internationally famous medical scientists, among them 2 Nobel laureates, published a condemnation of U of T’s treatment of Dr. Healy, declaring its reputation “poisoned”.
It is gratifying that all of this information you have read here is published by first-rate researchers and produced by mainstream publishers. The tide is turning against biotechnology and drugs. Perhaps war and drugs will not drive world economy forever. We are not as stupid as they think we are.
What You Need To Know and Do:
1. Always assume the drug prescribed is toxic – unless proven otherwise. Browsing the internet sites of the US Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and Health Canada will tell you which drugs are currently under review because of serious problems.
2. There is no such thing as a “side effect”; it is exactly what you can expect to experience, at least in part, along with whatever primary effect the drug is intended to have. Air pollution is inseprably part of cars.
3. Assume that any drug is at best a necessary emergency measure, rarely a long-term requirement, and almost never a cure. There are situations, in which they are imperative and life saving, but on most of those the patent has expired. They are the tried and true pharmaceutical arsenal, and not aggressively marketed nor advertised because they have no stock value.
4. Always ask your doctor for a full explanation of the prescribed drugs: what is the active ingredient? What so-called “side-effects” can you expect and how high is the percentage of those? Is there any record of addictive properties? How did it fare in human trials? Did it ever have human trials? If it didn’t – ask yourself if you are ready to be that human trial.
5. Always ask your doctor for the source of his/her information: did it come from personal reading of a medical journal or a drug rep? If the source is a drug rep, treat the information with a ton of salt, turn to the internet to find out more also about the entire family of drugs it belongs to, what side effects they consistently have, and what safer and cheaper alternatives exist. Did your doctor have good results with this drug with his/her own patients, or are you a guinea pig?
6. If you don’t have access to the internet, and before taking the newly prescribed drug, go to your library and get out the latest copy of the CPS: Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties. Look up the drug and learn all about the side effects and clinical trials, which by law the manufacturer must publish annually. While much is not fully reported, this information is generally scary enough to make you think. Photocopy those pages and ask your doctor for explanations. If he/she doesn’t have the time or doesn’t want to make the time – change doctors. Your business is to become healthy, not accommodate your doctor.
7. Treat Over-The-Counter (OTC) drugs with exactly the same caution as you would prescription drugs.
8. If you have been prescribed an anti-depressant, a so-called psychotropic drug (for mental health problems ranging from schizophrenia to severe depression or eating disorders), a drug that influences the heart, your cholesterol levels, your endocrine system (i.e. anything at all hormonal), or a cancer drug – buy or borrow the books listed at the end and find out its commercial and biological history first. Again: your business is to become healthy, not make the undertakers wealthy.
9. Always, always discuss nutritional, herbal and vitamin /mineral supplementation as an alternative to whatever pharmaceutical treatment your doctor suggests. If he/she knows nothing about it – back to the library and internet. This is equally true for any surgical procedure whatsoever.
10. Beware of experimental drugs – especially for chronic illness (cancer, autoimmune and cardiovascular disease, anything expected to influence cell division). Well-researched, scientifically proven treatments and outright cures have been around for whatever ails you for a long time. Resist being the playground/victim for the human fascination with new, high-tech toys.
11. If you are asked to enter a clinical trial designed to be “double blind and placebo controlled”, think twice. A huge body of scientific literature questions the medical ethics of giving sugar pills to people in control group patients who are just as sick as those getting the active drug. Inquire about toxicity. The chemistry of the experimental drug will be known. Ask who is paying for the drug trial: if it is a pharmaceutical company, they want to bring this drug to market and expect a healthy return for their investment. Negative results will be discouraged.
12. The more authoritarian and rushed the doctor behaves, the less he/she really knows. The more collaborative, encouraging of exploration the doctor is, the more likely you will improve. If you “can’t talk to that guy” – don’t. Change doctors (there are many other excellent ones) or go to a herbalist, homeopath, or naturopath. (The word “doctor” originally meant “teacher”, and medicine must return to teaching.) True, they are not covered by OHIP, but the toxic sludge you might be prescribed, is expensive and may ruin your life.
13. Corruption and ignorance are part of the fabric of life, therefore, research the alternatives as carefully as the mainstream solution. Not all supplements are created equal, and money is an object. Toronto has excellent compounding pharmacies that specialize in supplements. They will tell you which products are best, have the least artificial ingredients, and how they interact with conventional medication or each other.
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BY ARTHUR SCHAFER
Scandal At The University Of Toronto: The Olivieri Affair
Occasionally, brave university researchers surface — scholars who are willing to blow the whistle on the corporate sponsors who fund their research. Interestingly, the greatest academic scandal in Canadian history, involving haematologist Nancy Olivieri, occurred at our country’s largest and wealthiest research university, the University of Toronto. Olivieri is famous for refusing to suppress doubts about an experimental drug with which she was treating thalassemia patients. Apotex, the drug company which tried to silence her, has attracted international opprobrium. The company repeatedly threatened to sue Olivieri if she publicly revealed her fears about the inadequacy of their drug, deferiprone. She sued them for libeling her; they sued her ($20 million) for libeling their drug. The cases are still pending.
Olivieri’s hospital, the Hospital for Sick Children, and the University of Toronto have both taken a public drubbing for failing to provide her with effective support as she struggled with Apotex. Actually, not only was Olivieri denied effective support, she was fired from her position as the director of the hospital’s hemoglobinopathy program, and both she and those colleagues brave enough to support her experienced harassment of many kinds. In the words of the Canadian Association of University Teachers’ Olivieri Report: “Neither HSC nor the University took effective action to defend principles of research ethics, clinical ethics and academic freedom.” When it was discovered that the university was negotiating with Apotex for a huge financial donation, well, people drew their own conclusions, and these were not flattering to the university.
Indeed, the scandal is even deeper than this, for it was subsequently revealed that the University of Toronto’s then president had gone so far as to lobby the Government of Canada on behalf of Apotex. In a private letter to the prime minister, President Robert Prichard stated that the government’s proposed changes to drug patent regulations would adversely affect Apotex’s revenues and could thereby jeopardize the building of the university’s new medical research centre. President Prichard was unsuccessful in persuading the federal government to change its drug patent laws, but his lobbying activity demonstrated the lengths to which the university was prepared to go in appeasing the company or promoting its interests.
This embarrassing episode illustrates dramatically the dangers that can ensue from university reliance upon industry “philanthropy.” When career success for university presidents and deans is measured in significant part by their ability to raise vast sums of money from corporate donors, such fundraising can easily become a dominating priority.
Scandal At The University Of Toronto: The Healy Affair
In December of 2000, while the Olivieri affair was still capturing public attention, a second major scandal, also raising basic issues of academic freedom and patient safety, was brewing at the same university. The University and one of its affiliated hospitals, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) had eagerly recruited Dr. David Healy to be part of the Department of Psychiatry and head of the hospital’s Mood and Anxiety Disorders Clinic. Healy’s appointment was withdrawn, however, immediately after he made a speech critical of Prozac. Healy’s presentation warned that Prozac might cause agitation, suicidal thoughts, or suicide in some patients, and he called for more research on possible side-effects of the class of anti-depressant drugs known as SSRIs. Further research, over the past few years, has amply confirmed Healy’s worst fears. Unfortunately, being proven right isn’t the same thing as keeping your job. Coincidentally, or not, the company that makes Prozac had donated $1.5 million to CAMH, and the Eli Lilly Wing of the hospital was opened shortly after Healy lost his position. There is no evidence that the company directly intervened in the scandalous un-hiring of Healy.
The administrations of both the University of Toronto and CAMH claim that the un-hiring of David Healy had nothing to do with academic freedom. Instead, they contend, his lecture gave rise to “clinical concerns” and revealed that he would be a “bad fit” with his new colleagues.
Notwithstanding their strenuous denials, however, many people were convinced that the university was worried about risking financial inflows to the Department from pharmaceutical company sources.
Unsurprisingly, when corporate donors make substantial donations to universities they often expect to gain substantial influence. Indeed, it is the legally mandated duty of corporate executives and board members to act in the “best interests” of the corporation, which is commonly interpreted to mean that they have a legal duty to maximize overall profitability. Corporate donations to universities are typically viewed, at least in part, as an investment. This, in turn, raises the questions: What exactly is being bought by such investments? What exactly is being sold?
David Healy himself has little doubt that the most important lesson to be learned from his experience is the same one that should be learned from the experience of Nancy Olivieri: “What is involved is a contrast between the values of science and the values of business.”
The sad truth is that, at virtually every leading North American university, top officials are now required to ride two horses: their fundraiser’s horse and, simultaneously, their academic horse (as guardians of core university values). Unfortunately, those who attempt to ride two horses can come to grief when, as sometimes happens, the horses pull in opposite directions.
Regards,
(Apotex’s victim)
March 7, 2011 3:34 PM
Andrew said:
Dear Sir / Madam,
Dermatologist /Specialist in Occupational Health Services (Department of Occupational and Environmental Health in St. Michael’s Hospital) has seen me number of times.
I supplied him with full binder of Documents / Evidence associated with my Case.
After full medical/ anatomical examination and review of my Documents as well as of his own literature, Dr. concluded , that in fact many chemicals which I was exposed to while working in the Pharmaceutical Company (Apotex) for 6.5 years with out any protection) in fact do cause ( are described by scientific literature) as causes of occupationally related “vitiligo”.
Dr. acknowledged, that direct skin contact (which I did have massively on daily bases) with those / various chemicals is not necessary to cause occupational vitiligo, because it is possible that inhalation alone (which I did have massively on daily bases) or ingestion alone (which I did have on daily bases) of “sufficient” amounts of those chemicals may also produce occupational vitiligo.
However he did not take for consideration supplied by me evidence conforming all my allegations in context of:
1. I was healthy prior to employment with Apotex – Company’s Record, example Page 82-85/ 481
2. No Management/ Supervision at any time – example Page 167/481
3. Conformation of daily exposures – example Page 298/481
4. Conformation of accident / explosion (many) – example Page 297 /481
5. Example of production conditions – Page 217/481, attached Samples 1-8 etc.
6. Confidentiality order from Executives – example Page 175/481, Page 194D /481
7. Falsification of Company’s/ Production Documents – example Page 196/481
8. Construction /Expansion for / during of almost 6.5 years of my employment – example Page 148/481
9. Vitiligo/ Leucoderma has huge Psycho – Social impact – Page 105 / 481.
Etc. etc.
Chemically induced Leucoderma (either by skin toxic exposures or by inhalation /ingestion – absorption/ saturation) contrary to genetic vitiligo (idiopathic vitiligo) ADDITIONALLY has direct association with horrifying psychical/Physiological/ mental-neurological /medical side effects (very serious and totally demobilizing symptoms).
Despite POSESSION OF FULL BINDER OF EVIDENCE, in his further collaboration Dr. transfers my File to Occupational Disease Specialty Program for detailed investigation regarding, whether or not I was ACTUALLY EXPOSED TO “SUFICIENT” AMOUNTS OF VITILIGO PRODUCEING CHEMICALS AT WORKPLACE?
Dr. failed to notice, that my case is not strictly about “strictly dermatologic point”, but in context of very complex medical / criminal situation!
Regards,
(Apotex’s victim)
March 10th, 2011 at 2:56 am
The lawlessness of the Apotex, Big Pharma immunity, and crimes against humanity!
Apotex’s criminal acts will be long remembered as its campaign against health consumers.
Apotex established a power of such scale and scope that it attempts to bypass all laws, the will of Legislative Assembly, Parliament and fundamental protections for consumers. This may as well be called a “Final Solution” for employees of Big Pharma, drug consumers /General Public. Employees / Consumers can no sue drug company for the harm caused by any Apotex’s drug, even if the drug’s manufacturer intentionally misled the FDA / Public by hiding or fabricating clinical trial data.
Apotex managed to outright eliminate of any responsibility whatsoever for the suffering and death caused by criminal negligence / deadly pharmaceuticals.
Such a position has no basis in law.
The ploy has, “…nothing to do with science.
It is contrary to Canada’s Judicial / Constitutional system.
It is contrary to all the law!
Apotex is dangerous to Population in 115 Countries importing Apotex’s product!
This is outrageous at a time when so many Canadians /Americans and other sick people around the World are routinely killed by contaminated medications, the harmful side effects of prescription drugs. This only contributes to the arrogance and absurdity of this rogue Company that has now become the No. 1 threat to the health and safety of the people.
Even a terrorist nuclear attack on a major city would not equal the number of C anadians / Americans who have already been killed by the negligent actions of Apotex /the FDA.
FDA-approved prescription drugs injure 2.2 million and kill approximately 100,000 Americans each year, according to peer-reviewed published studies, and more realistic estimates put the number of deaths at over 200,000 people annually in the United States alone (see Death By Medicine for detailed statistics).
For example Vioxx, according to senior FDA drug safety researcher Dr. David Graham, appears responsible for the deaths of over 60,000 Americans, and further deaths due to beta blockers, antidepressant drugs, statins and other medications continue to mount by the hour.
The resulting FDA body count of American casualties makes the casualties of war look small in comparison. The Vietnam War claimed the lives of approximately 50,000 Americans (plus many more Vietnamese), and a memorial in Washington D.C. honors those who died. But FDA-approved prescription drugs have killed well over a million Americans, yet no memorial will be built.
It’s not like these consumers were killed by enemy gunfire in a foreign land; they were killed by American companies, on American soil, with the full permission and approval of an American regulatory agency! The enemy from within is, indeed, far more dangerous than any foreign threat to the lives of American citizens.
Not since World War II have so many Americans died from a single, common, preventable cause, and it almost seems that the FDA has declared war on the American people and is using chemical weapons to win that war.
The scourge of dangerous prescription drugs, combined with willful collusion at the FDA, has now created a chemical holocaust on U.S. /Canadian soil that will continue to claim the lives of mothers, fathers, daughters and sons until the American /Canadian people demand that justice be served and that the FDA / pharmaceutical industrial complex be dismantled and condemned through some modern-day equivalent of the Nuremberg Trials.
How many millions more have to die from this chemical holocaust before this reign of medical terror is brought to an end?
Apotex / drug companies do operate with impunity, shouldering absolutely no responsibility for the harmful (even fatal) side effects of their prescription drugs, many of which we are now learning were only approved under highly suspicious circumstances that smack of fraud, corruption and outright criminal intent. Consumers harmed or killed by toxic prescription drugs — even drugs that their manufacturers knew were extremely dangerous — have no recourse whatsoever.
If present rules were to go unchallenged, the degree of profiteering by Big Pharma would be unprecedented.
Free to charge monopoly prices thanks to the FDA-enforced domestic drug racket that outlaws international competition, and unburdened by the financial risk of lawsuits from consumers harmed by their drugs, Big Pharma is being emboldened to unleash a dystopian era of unprecedented disease mongering, bribery of doctors, false advertising and the mass drugging of children, adults and seniors alike… with absolutely nothing to hold them in check.
This result may, in fact, have been the intention all along.
A more detailed legal criticism is offered by Karen Barth Menzies, an attorney at Baum Hedlund in Los Angeles.
The rules as they stand do represent the end of health justice, the end of the power of Parlament / Legislative/Congress, and the surrender of absolute power to an agency (FDA) of such arrogance and evil that it has conducted armed raids on vitamin clinics, organized the raid of a church, and even ordered the destruction of recipe books it didn’t want to see published.
The FDA, through its willful negligence, is indirectly responsible for the deaths of more Americans than all terrorists, murderers and drunk drivers combined.
As the deaths continue to mount, and drug companies become even more aggressive with outlandish disease mongering and advertising efforts, the FDA rears up to unleash a new wave of corporate terrorism upon the American /Canadian people by emboldening drug companies to care even less about the safety of their synthetic chemical products, most of which cause harm by their very nature of being foreign to the human body.
As Menzies explains: “Pharmaceutical industry lobbying efforts and zealot tort reformers have sired a new wave of brazen attempts to shield drug manufacturers from tort liability. The preemption language in the preamble to the Final Rule is but the latest attempt. Preemption has become the argument du jour and politically appointed regulatory officials the mouthpieces. The crafty messages sound of consumer protection, but are just the opposite. Limiting the liability of drug companies will not improve public safety. The FDA’s purported position on preemption assumes that the FDA is infallible and that negligent misconduct by pharmaceutical companies should be the sole purview of FDA. Recent regulatory failures demonstrate that FDA is neither infallible nor does it have the capability of policing drug manufacturers negligent misconduct. “
Truth be told, there is not enough money in the world to pay for all the pain, suffering and death that has already been caused by prescription drugs, and if drug companies are held responsible for even a small fraction of the patients their products have harmed and killed, they will rapidly fall from the most wealthy corporations in the world to the most bankrupt, both financially and morally.
You see, the arrogance and greed of drug companies will ultimately be their downfall. They have pushed too hard, too far, and they have landed themselves in a realm of such obvious scientific fraud and criminal negligence that the backlash is inevitable. The rampant disease mongering, the mass drugging of schoolchildren with amphetamines, the false claims of drug ads, the bribery of doctors, the collusion at the FDA… it’s all coming to the surface now, and by the time this house of cards comes tumbling down, the resulting criminal trials against drug company executives and FDA officials will make the Enron trials sound like a high school debate.
It is not only inevitable that drug company executives and FDA senior officials will do prison time for their crimes against humanity, it is important that they be loudly condemned via such punishments for knowingly defrauding, harming and ultimately killing countless people in exchange for one thing: Corporate profits.
American medicine is now the shame of the world, and the conduct of senior officials at the FDA is nothing less than criminal. There is now no greater threat to the health and safety of the people than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Apotex managed to compromise operational integrity, mandate etc. of key Government Agencies, Boards, Commissions, some Tribunals, which suppose to protect General Public.
Apotex developed integrated and very successful network of crime in Ontario.
Now we know how this happened, that private Corporation controls Lawyers, Doctors, Government Agencies etc.?
OHR Tribunal as well as Ontario Labour Board, WSiB, Ontario Ombudsmen, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Worker Advisor Office, Fair Practices Commission and many other Government Agencies which repeatedly refused to report to Police crimes against me and General Public.
Apotex become a bully who harms / attacks people who express concerns in area of Public Safety or are weaker or unable to defend themselves. Apotex exposed own employees to appalling and atrocious conditions at work.
Defendant, Apotex / Counsel displayed bad faith, arrogance, disrespect to Canadian Constitution, Human Rights, whole Justice System, Public Order. Tribunals etc.
Apotex is defiant, not regretful, with out remorse, not willing to correct wrong doings. Company, OHR Tribunal as well as other Government Agencies (collectively GOVERNMENT) got engaged in intentional malicious conduct violating all statutes with a reckless indifference. It acted in the face of a perceived risk that its actions will violate all laws. Apotex /Counsel after 6 years of disabling me, torturing me, denials of medical help, denials of Constitutional and Law protection as well as many other criminal acts eventually admitted all allegations. Apotex refuse to plea “Guilty”, and in further criminal acts decided to challenge my Application on technicalities / alleged preliminary issues.
I was and am tortured by Apotex, Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario’s Ombudsmen Office, Office of the Worker Adviser, Ontario Human Rights Commission/Tribunal and some more Agencies. Canadian Government institutions mandated to assist General Public in time of misfortune, suffer and despair selected to engage in criminal activities and assist criminal Corporation which is stone waling an Ontarian / victim with life threatening medical conditions. Those Institutions deprived me from Constitutional and Law protection. Apotex and its accomplices denied me medical help, deprived me of all means of sustaining myself and are not regretful. Apotex, Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario’s Ombudsmen Office sentenced me and my family for life of suffer, despair, hunger and poverty. Apotex, Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario’s Ombudsmen Office shattered my and my family’s dreams and future. Apotex many times derailed my attempts to get help and justice.
Apotex should be declared as the one committing crimes against humanity, committing acts of domestic and Global terrorism and should be investigated by Amnesty International, FBI, Ministry of Public Safety and trialed by Tribunal in Strasburg for such crimes.
Apotex did knowingly and willfully make a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statements and representation in a matter within the jurisdiction of the Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Tribunal and other Government Agencies, DENIED MEDICAL HELP as well obstructed Canadian Constitution etc.
Apotex committed many counts of perverting the course of justice or intending to pervert the course of justice, many counts of perjury, criminal conspiracy, criminal negligence, criminal recruitment of false witnesses, attempted murder, did cause permanent disability, irreparable damage. Issues and/or events which occurred after my departure from Employer are also in full are Apotex’s liabilities due to fact that Apotex actively sabotaged legal /administrative proceedings in all Government Agencies in question. Preliminary matters are that Apotex In premeditated manner is torturing me for MANY, MANY years and pending. Company acts without any consideration for the human rights.
Apotex falsified all records provided by them to Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Tribunal and other Government Agencies (collectively Government) and engaged its employees in criminal conspiracy (documented) which untimely further deteriorates my state of health.
Apotex denied me medical help, Constitutional and Law protection, deprived mi of ability to get new job and/or provide for my self.
Best Regards,
(Apotex’ victim)
March 10th, 2011 at 3:07 am
… this is a chemical holocaust against General Public!! What needs to happened before this reign of medical terror is brought to an end?
March 15th, 2011 at 1:16 am
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please PREVENT Mr. Carl Peterson (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP) and Ms. K. Koos (Apotex) on Criminal Grounds of Inadmissibility / committing acts which constitute the essential elements of a crime involving moral turpitude ( FROUD, CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY AND MANY MORE) , from participation in adjudicative process. An attempt or conspiracy to commit such a crime is included in this ground. They committed/ committing acts which constitute the essential elements of a violation or conspiracy to violate many laws / regulations in Canada.
The convictions arose not from a single trial or arose from a single scheme of conduct involving moral turpitude but from years long PATERN OF BEHAVIOUR. (Evidence).
Those individuals engaged in criminal activities on behalf of Criminal Corporation (Apotex) FOR MANY YEARS AND THEY MUST BE STOPED!
I know /have reason to believe that those individuals are known assisters, abettors, conspirators, colluders with others in the illicit acts to torture, discriminate, deny medical help to me / a disabled person.
It is submitted , that Apotex / Counsel, Mr. Carl Peterson (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP) as well as Ms. K. Koos (Apotex) should be prevented from abuse and obstruction of ALL adjudicative processes and from making any frivolous, vexatious , trivial , made in bad faith suggestions with out any merit / scientific / legal bases further tormenting/ torturing me /a victim. Thos individuals should be charged with Contempt of all Administrative Boards, Commissions, Tribunals processes etc.
Mr. Carl Peterson (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP) and Ms. K. Koos (Apotex) falsified all records provided by them to all Government Agencies and engaged others / employees in criminal conspiracy (documented) which untimely further deteriorated(s) my state of health.
Those individuals purposely are omitting very critical evidence and medical conditions (or are reducing it in to insignificance).
For many years those individuals were committing crimes against me / a victim by falsifying/ concealing evidence / Documents, soliciting criminal witnesses etc.
Mr. Carl Peterson (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP) and Ms. K. Koos (Apotex) got engaged in intentional malicious conduct on behalf of Criminal Corporation violating all statutes with a reckless indifference. They acted in the face of a perceived risk that their actions will violate all laws, torture and destroy / kill suffering, sick person.
They perpetuated TORTURE, TORMENT, RETRIBUTION, DISCRIMINATION and HERRASMENT etc.
Mr. Carl Peterson, (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP) and Ms. Koos did knowingly and willfully make a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statements and representation in a matter within the jurisdiction of the Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Tribunal and other Government Agencies, in the process DENIED MEDICAL HELP as well as obstructed Canadian Constitution, Legal System etc.
Mr. Carl Peterson (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP) and Ms. Koos (Apotex) committed many counts of perverting the course of justice or intending to pervert the course of justice, many counts of perjury, criminal conspiracy, criminal negligence, criminal recruitment of false witnesses, attempted murder, did contribute to my permanent disability, irreparable damage. Issues and/or events which occurred after my departure from Employer are also in full are Apotex’s (Mr. Peterson’s -Company’s Counsel and Ms. Koos as accomplices /executors ) liabilities due to fact that those individuals on behalf of Apotex actively sabotaged legal /administrative proceedings in all Government Agencies in question. Preliminary matters are that Mr. Peterson (Company’s Counsel) and Ms. Koos (Apotex) in premeditated manner are torturing me for MANY, MANY years and pending. They / Company /accomplices act without any consideration for the human rights and my well being despite their awareness of my situation and familiarity with my File.
Apotex is defiant, not regretful, with out remorse, not willing to correct wrong doings.
Mr. Carl Peterson,(Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP) and Ms. K. Koos (Apotex) falsified or concealed all records provided by them to Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Tribunal and other Government Agencies (collectively Government) and engaged other people in criminal conspiracy (documented) which untimely further deteriorates my state of health. On behalf of Company they committed many counts of perverting the course of justice or intending to pervert the course of justice, many counts of perjury, criminal conspiracy, criminal negligence, criminal recruitment of false witnesses, attempted murder, did contribute to permanent disability, irreparable damage.
Those individuals got involved in my Case, purposely were omitting /altering very critical evidence and medical conditions (or were reducing it in to insignificance) and were paid for it while limiting my professional and personal life, making challenging my social life, destroyed my marriage, imposed extreme hardship on my family and relatives/friends and in vicious / malicious manner on on going bases are preventing me from enjoying my Constitutional Right to obtain medical help, be able to provide for myself etc.
In near future I may select to proceed with CIVIL/ CRIMINAL/ LEGAL ACTIOMN AGAINST Mr. Carl Peterson , his Firm (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP) and Ms. K. Koos (Apotex).
Mr. Carl Peterson (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP):
*Despite his OATH TO HER MAJESTY “JUSTICE” TO SERVE LOYALLY, JUSTIFETLY THOSE IN NEED /JUSTICE SYSTEM, unfortunately he selected to utilize his knowledge / expertise in criminal, amoral, unprincipled manner. He explored /utilized gross deficiencies of the Regulatory System and acted against very sick /disadvantaged / UNREPRESENTED ex-employee of criminal Corporation contributing great deal to my suffer and to my misery for many, many years.
* Mr. Carl Peterson WITH OUT HASITATION COLLECTED HIS HIGH SALLARY, WHILE FOR YEARS DESTROYING SICK / SUFFERING PERSON NOT ABLE TO AFORD MEDICATION , GROCERIES AND ANY THING ELSE AND SPENDING YEARS BEING BEDRIDDEN IN EXCRUCIATING PAIN.
*He could not restrain his bad impulses.
*He prevented me from access to Lawyers, to the legal system, to justice!
*Mr. Carl Peterson did every thing in his capacity to make me unsuccessful in my drive for help and justice despite his awareness of my medical conditions / personal situation and the evidence conforming my allegations.
*Mr. Carl Peterson directly disrespected me twice in the period of my struggle while during Mediation process in Labour Board he abandoned the proceedings and left the Conference Room with out saying any thing (out of the blue he got up and left the proceedings).
*The same behaviour he demonstrated second time around during Mediation at Human Rights Commission living Room with out saying a world (out of the blue he got up and left the proceedings).
*Mr. Carl Peterson wants to participate in judicial process conducted by WSIAT but he is not in position to make any decisions nor he has any authorisations to act on behalf of the Company to mediate any thing ( he did not forward any documents supporting his powers accept Participation Authorisation). The same situation was every were else.
*Appears, that Mr. Carl Peterson wants yet again to derail this time around WSIAT’S PROCES.
*This is fundamentally undemocratic and not acceptable!
Legal profession changed very negatively in Canada.
It becomes a business interested in making profit not making judgments based on merits.
*Mr. Carl Peterson (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP) becomes enabler for Apotex! He manipulated system/ Government Agencies in order to torture, torment, deny of all civil/ constitutional rights, medical help to a disabled person etc.
*“EVERY LAWYER IS GOING TO GO IN TO THE OFFICE TODAY AND COMMIT FROUD”- A TOP LEGAL SCHOLAR AND EX-BAY STREET LAWYER PHILIP SLAYTON TALKS ABOUT HOW LAWYERS BECOME GREADY, UNPRINCIPLED ENABLERS OF THE RICH – THE CORRUPTION OF THIS PROFESSION . “LAWYERS ARE RATS!”
Ms. K. Koos (Apotex):
• Despite numerous letters from WSiB demanding Safety Data from Employer, Ms. K. Koos for many months stagnated process claiming, that SHE MUST PREPARE /fabricate THEM (SHE DID SORTE OUT WHAT WAS IN SUPPORT OF MY CLAIM) and provided selective / bias info.
• Ms. K. Koos obtain “list of products” that I was exposed to (?) from dysfunctional employee who during his employment created an accident at work place and he become a victim of it. Later on he becomes Apotex’s “safety” rep. and a criminally motivated “witness”.
• She miss represented herself claiming , that she did on regular bases meet with me to discuss safety issues and to do some safety quizzes while the truth are that she started her employment with Apotex 3 (three) years after I was criminally terminated.
• Ms. K. Koos Provided number of quizzes to WSiB , which she claimed that I did complete during employment , while in fact all of them were completed by me in one / first day of my employment in 1997.
• Ms. K. Koos altered my personal / Company’s medical records withholding / canceling all Records indicating my medical problems during my employment
• Ms. K. Koos cancels Company’s Record indicating , that I was perfectly healthy before my employment with Apotex
• She removed Company’s Records generated by Health and Safety Clinic recording fact that I never was issued any mask / protective equipment,
• She counseled record, that Company was under construction during my 6,5 years of employment and all equipment / systems were invalidated/ not functional and buildings were substantially demolished with piles of debris constantly present in Manufacturing /Packaging areas during processes.
• She concealed fact that during my employment Company did not have a Nurse on the stuff NOR OFFICIALY ORGANIZED SAFETY DEPARTMENT.
• Ms. K. Koos CONSEALED FACT , THAT VERY MANY EMPLOYEES SUFERRED DEADLY MEDICAL PROBLEMS AS RESULT OF / FROM UNPROTECTED EXPOSURES TO VERY POTENT ACTIVES
• She did not disclose that most Apotex’s employees from my period of employment were temporary and are not employed any more.
• She did not admit as Company’s Record show, that I worked with out any management, with out any in process quality control, on night shifts and that all my allegations are cross referenced by evidence.
• Etc., etc., etc.
Please include into my File additional medical condition MALICIOUSLY and in BAD FAITH, by means of fraud, deception , intentional deceit, perfidy omitted by all involved in my Case including Apotex’s Counsel Mr. Carl Peterson (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP -who argues a legal position that he knows to be false – a Counsel who uses language and criminally twisted reasoning/ methodology which are deliberately misleading in order to deny my claim. Counsel, who is not willing /able to sincerely endorse the principles of justice), most Doctors, a CRIMINAL WSiB and all Government Agencies involved in my Case.
In law, there are inconsistent definitions of bad faith, with one definition much more broad than used in other fields. Black’s Law Dictionary equates fraud with bad faith. But one goes to jail for fraud, and not necessarily for bad faith. The Duhaime online law dictionary similarly defines bad faith broadly as “intent to deceive”, and “a person who intentionally tries to deceive or mislead another in order to gain some advantage”. A Canadian labor arbitrator wrote, in one case, that bad faith is related to rationality in reasoning, as it is used in other fields, but is ill defined in the law.
The concept of bad faith is likely not capable of precise calibration and certainly has not been defined in the same way by all adjudicators. At its core, bad faith implies malice or ill will. A decision made in bad faith is grounded, not on a rational connection between the circumstances and the outcome, but on antipathy toward the individual for non-rational reasons… The absence of a rational basis for the decision implies that factors other than those relevant were considered. In that sense, a decision in bad faith is also arbitrary. These comments are not intended to put to rest the debate over the definition of bad faith. Rather, it is to point out that bad faith, which has its core in malice and ill will, at least touches, if not wholly embraces, the related concepts of unreasonableness, discrimination and arbitrariness.
What was called “Canada’s best judicial definition of ‘bad faith’” by Duhaime’s Legal Dictionary is similarly more consistent with use in other fields.
Good faith and its opposite, bad faith, imports a subjective state of mind, the former motivated by honesty of purpose and the latter by ill-will.
Duhaime also refers to another description, “…bad faith refers to a subjective state of mind… motivated by ill will … or even sinister purposes.”
Punitive and exemplary damages
Courts can award punitive or exemplary damages, over and above the claim, against any Corporation / individual or/and insurance company which is found to have adjusted a claim in bad faith; the damages may be awarded with the aim of deterring such behavior among insurers in general, and may far exceed the amount of the damage due under the insurance policy. In Canada, one case of this type resulted in a record punitive award of $1 million CAD when an insurance company pressed a claim for arson even after its own experts and adjusters had come to the conclusion that the fire was accidental; the company was advised by legal council that the desperate insured parties would be willing to settle for much less than what they were owed.
IN MY CASE, Mr.Carl Peterson (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP) and Ms. Koos (Apotex) did knowingly and willfully make a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statements and representation in a matter within the jurisdiction of the Ontario Labor Board, WSiB (Workers Compensation Insurance Board), Ontario Human Rights Commission /Tribunal, obstructed Ontario Health Act, Ontario Labor Law as well as Canadian Constitution etc.
IN MY CASE, Mr.Carl Peterson (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP) and Ms. Koos (Apotex) committed many counts of perverting the course of justice or intending to pervert the course of justice, many counts of perjury, criminal conspiracy, criminal negligence, criminal recruitment of false witnesses, attempted murder, did cause /contribute to permanent disability, irreparable damage.
Company and all involved in sabotaging of my allegations must be INDICTED and convicted on multiple offences / crimes (Criminal Code, Constitutional provisions, Bill – 45, Bill 107, Bill – 168 and other Law provisions).
Best Regards,
(Apotex’s victim)
March 29th, 2011 at 1:53 am
Dear Sir/Madam,
The Industry is not highly regulated, it is self regulated!!!!!!!!!!!
Breach of the Criminal Code duty occurred in a “wanton and/or reckless” manner. Apotex exposed me to the most horrifying experiences imaginable. They mirrored every depiction of hell.
System is cooperating with Criminal Corporation instead of focusing on Criminal Corporation which in horrible manner impacts all sick people.
Company was preventing creation of any medical records related to employee’s side effects associated with products exposure. Company terrorized by many means any one / other employees voicing concerns about issues with Safety and quality of the products.
554 Lots rejected in two years! Apotex’s philosophy was “to antagonize every one against every one” to keep employees week, fragmented, unorganized, not able to question any thing ( safety / luck of protection), absence of Safety Data Shits, production of unknown products, not calibrated / invalidated equipment and systems, adverse product side effects, prevent employees from complaints to Authorities etc. Documents / NOTES can not be lost / misplaced or “not maintained” in the pharmaceutical Company / Industry unless you do not generate any or purposely lose them. What about “good documentation practices”?
. Routinely displayed signs of Dementia, aggression, radicalism etc.
Due to introduction of dangerous products all employees in Quality Dept, all in Sanitation Dept, all in Manufacturing Dept -all Operators /Technicians, all in Maintenance Dept and so on left the Company and Company was not able to recruit qualified candidates. This situation created total collapse of compliance with any and all of GMP, SOP and Safety regulations. To great extend, absence of qualified /responsible Personnel, Company’s big financial problems (expansion, Legal liabilities, pending processing of approvals of new products) exhausted/collapsed Company’s financial fluidity and prevented Company from supply of base items (toilet paper, gloves, eye protection, protective uniforms, masks, you name it, etc.).
Those processes were conducted in /on not approved equipment and in manufacturing area not approved for such operations. Many products were under extensive formulation and development stages (in confidentiality). Apotex was/ is /will conceal and manipulate data and underreport info concerning products. In secrecy we did work on Formulation and Development of almost all key products/brands present on the market (solid dose).
As all Operators and other Personnel I got massive exposure to unidentified product (s) – exposed to chemicals in processes. Company criminally concealed names/ nature of processed products. Company processed products with out regulatory permits in Facility not approved for those products (not providing any personal protection for Personnel), did not post Work Orders or Safety Data Shits and did not disclose short and long term health hazards do to massive unprotected exposures. All Operators /Personnel displayed alarming level of medical problems as well as with judgment/reasoning. They did have dramatically decreased concern for safety (obliviousness). We did have cases, when Operators urinated in to the floor drains in process Rooms during production runs etc…..
/we were dying every day.
Apotex, who exposes own employees to these extremely addictive drugs with out any protection, with no warning of the addictive properties should be held accountable for the results of that lack of warning and criminal negligence.
Employees worked with out any Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) /collective protection and sustained sever injuries on daily bases.
For period of years my Department’s Manager and Director refused to enter Manufacturing, Packaging Departments as well as services areas despite of countless cases of urgent need of their participation/input.
AS I STATED BEFORE IN MY YEARLIER COMMUNICATIONS, I WORKED ALMOST EXCLUSIVELLY ON NIGHT SHIFTS WITH OUT ANY SUPERVISION /MANAGEMENT. During my period of employment on nights we manufactured most of the products.
IN ALL CASES OF SIGNIFICENT PROBLEMS WITH EQUIPMENT /PROCESSES I WAS ORDERED TO CALL MY MANAGER.
ON ONE OCASSION I CALLED IN MY MANAGER MR. JOE SPROVIERO (on the beginning of his employment he was very decent /knowledgeable / cooperative individual until Apotex turned him in to piranha). As soon as he arrived I insisted, that he goes with me in to Manufacturing Department.
He refused to comply for any reason.
Eventually, after long discussion (all petrified) he followed me! WHOT HE WITNESSED MADE ON HIM PROFOUND INPACT. Right after that experience he moved his Office from FFS Department (REGULARLY CONTAMINATED) in to main Offices Building.
He never again entered Manufacturing area. I had to prompt him by e-mails to act to provide at list some protection for me and Operators/ Technicians.
After long time of excuses Manager agreed to bring up this issue with TOP EXECUTIVES AT APOTEX.
AT THE MEETING, ONCE HE TOLD THEM ABOUT MY /HIS CONCERNS, EXECUTIVES ANOUNCED TO HIM THAT ALL SUPLIES ARE PERSONALLY ORDERED BY DR. B. SHERMAN (CEO APOTEX) AND HE PERSONALLY REFUSED TO PURCHASE ANY SAFETY /PERSONAL PROTECTION EQUIPMENT (PPE).
Due to Company’s financial problems selected chemicals were on his priority list to sustain production.
Manager told me, that EXECUTIVES WORNED HIM, THAT IF HE (MANAGER) DOES NOT STOP TO BRING UP MY CONCERNS, and THEY WILL FIRE HIM.
AFTER THAT INSTANCE (and some earlier) MY MANAGER TURNED INTO PIRANAH.
I HOLD DR. BERNARD SHERMAN (CEO APOTEX) and all involved in my Case (negatively impacting my Case) PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL I ALLEAGE.
Corporation selected to ignore Health and Safety regulations and adopted an unrelentingly aggressive stance against me while I expressed concerns in area of Health and Safety and quality of the products.
After criminal termination with out cause of very sick employee Apotex, Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario’s Ombudsmen Office and more Agencies sentenced me and my family for life of suffer, despair, hunger and poverty. Apotex, Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario’s Ombudsmen Office shattered my and my family’s dreams and future. Apotex many times derailed my attempts to get help and justice. Apotex committed crime against me destroying my health and life by criminal negligence! For very long time they further victimized me denying me my Constitutional Rights to be able to provide for myself. Because of their extended criminal activities I was not able to purchase groceries, medications, to visit Doctors, to pay my bills and I am being repossessed by my creditors.
People from any Managerial, Executive level including ownership must be prevented by Court Order from working in any pharmaceutical, chemical or food industry ever – in the name of Public’s SAFETY!
Situation demands urgent attention and a Public Inquiry! Managers, Executives of all levels including ownership were benefiting from misery of own employees and on misfortune / tragedy of sick and afflicted.
Apotex and all involved in sabotaging of my allegations must be INDICTED and convicted on multiple offences / crime (Criminal Code, Constitutional provisions, Bill – 45, Bill 107, Bill – 168 and other Law provisions).
I experience a hell I never knew existed. All drugs are making me feel very lethargic and all around disabled 24 hours a day every day. Doctors told me that I do have permanent problems. Apotex deprived me of all my Doctors! Some time I do not know whether I am wake or I am a sleep. Paxil /narcotics and other psychiatric actives separated my sole from my body. I think about being some body else (like split personality).Like being floating in my surroundings. Please look at my other submission of my horrifying actives side effects.
It is important to differentiate in between an accident and a crime (criminal, methodical negligence).
They deliberately acted with knowledge of a high degree of probability of serious harm to me and reckless indifference to the consequences of that act. It acted in the face of a perceived risk that its actions will violate all laws. The evidence proves that alleged facts were true.
For years sick people are turning 6? under the ground due to contaminated medications!
Please focus on 7 years of my unprotected work with toxic / controlled substances/narcotics , which are known to cause my conditions even in dosages regularly prescribed by Doctors and much more/worse if over dosed.
I was profoundly sick at the time of occurrence and after (I could not talk, hold a pan, walk, rationalize what was happening).
Apotex subjected me to the most horrifying experiences imaginable. I was/we did “swimming in” / a massive exposure with out any protection to a potent actives/restricted drugs. Drugs, by definition – are poisons to the body. All drugs are poisons. Sometimes, however, a person’s state has reached the point where a poison is the best option.
By not providing employees with any product info and personal protection Apotex promoted products induced violence at work / antidepressant nightmares. Apotex was exterminating own employees an especially of Taliban / Alquaida orientation (90%+ of employees) by not providing them with any product info and personal protection. Due to lack of any Personnel, Apotex started to employ only temporary people (almost solemnly new comers in to Canada from Afghanistan and Pakistan desperate for work and earnings) with out language skills, with out pharmaceutical/ technical EXPERIENCE, with out any awareness of safety equipment. All of them were getting valiantly sick and Apotex rotated them on daily bases. Operators on my shift (nights) in majority were new /temporary employees (very new in to Canada from Afghanistan and Pakistan with out any personal resources desperately trying to make some money). People were displaying horrifying symptoms of products adverse side / overdose effects, many were getting heart attacks, respiratory problems, skin conditions, many (including me ) were getting swollen (popping up like victims of deep sea diving not observing decompression ) and many many more very disturbing medical conditions including psychiatric disorders (profound neurological problems). Sample-one of my co-workers got heart palpitations at work. He was taken by his wife from work in to Hospital. In the Hospital he collapsed. Second time he was taken from work to his family Doctor where he collapsed at Doctor’s Office with hearth problems and he was taken on emergence in to the hospital by ambulance. (Company managed to destroy all records of those incidents). Fortunately all other record of that incident survived-including blood work and some other tests done by Doctor. Again, I and my NEW partner were the only ONCE non Taliban and white persons in the plant.
I started to supply ALL ON MY SHIFT with proper FIRST AID materials on my own in order to prevent their suffer and I did it for very long time!
We did have on daily bases incidents/accidents and substantial multi product spills.
Apotex did every thing in its capacity to make me unsuccessful in my drive for help and justice despite Company’s awareness of my medical conditions / personal situation and the evidence conforming my allegations.
Regards,
April 3rd, 2011 at 12:30 am
ACTIVE PHARMACEUTICAL INGREDIENT(ingrédient pharmaceutique actif) – Any substance or mixture of substances that is intended to be used in the manufacture of a drug (medicinal) product and that, when used in the production of a drug, becomes an active ingredient of the drug product. Such substances are intended to furnish pharmacological activity or other direct effect in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease or to affect the structure and function of the body.
Hundreds of chemicals are capable of inducing cancer in humans or animals after prolonged or excessive exposure.
Nitrates, Carcinogens, Arsenic & Pharmaceuticals!
Primary prevention is the answer!
Chemical carcinogens
Information on this webpage is drawn from our 2005 report:
Experts agree that most cancers are caused by our bodies or parts of them being exposed to certain substances over long periods of time. These cancer causing substances are called carcinogens.
(NHS 2001)
Chemical carcinogens
The chemical agents of cancer have become entrenched in our world in two ways: first, and ironically, through man’s search for a better and easier way of life; second, because the manufacture and sale of such chemicals has become an accepted part of our economy and our way of life.
(Carson 1962)
The main source of human exposures to carcinogens today is man-made chemical compounds. By 1985 it could be stated as a fact that ‘nearly all of the synthetic [man-made] chemicals regularly used in industry today did not exist 40 years ago [in the 1940s]. Of the 45,000 toxic chemicals listed by the US National Institute of Safety and Health (NIOSH) in 1980, 2,500 were identified as carcinogens, 2,700 as mutagens [causing genetic change] and 300 as teratogens [causing malformation of an embryo]. Less than 7,000 had been adequately tested.
(Grossart 1985)
This is old, not new knowledge. Yet it was only during the last 15 years of the 20th century that medical science began to associate the unprecedented growth rates of many diseases with modern chemicals. While in the same 15-year period some chemical compounds were banned or reduced (in number and use) through tighter regulations, man-made chemicals continued to be developed and marketed in an ever-widening range of products and applications. The universal application of man-made chemicals in every sphere of modern life has made exposure to them an unavoidable, lifelong reality for each one of us. The vast majority of industrial chemicals have never been tested for their potential to cause or promote cancer.
Synthetic chemicals are in some cases proven to harm – and in other cases suspected of being harmful – to human health for a range of reasons:
• the majority are based on carbon, and for this reason, are particularly dangerous to us because being based on carbon, the chemistry of all life, they readily enter human tissues and seriously disrupt the body’s complex processes and complex chemical reactions.
(Harte et al ‘Toxics A-Z’ 1991)
• many of those which have been tested are known or suspected carcinogens
• increasing numbers are found to disrupt the function of the endocrine (hormone) system. This group has particular significance for hormone-related cancers such as breast cancer
• some are both carcinogenic and hormone-disruptive e.g. atrazine, an agricultural pesticide widely used in the UK
• the increasing numbers found to ‘persist’ (remain a long time in the environment) as a result of being designed to be ‘stable compounds’ which are therefore not broken down in the environment by micro-organisms and in the human body by metabolic processes
• the increasing numbers found to be ‘bioaccumulative’ (build-up in the body, mostly in fatty tissue). Chemical compounds that accumulate in living tissues increase in number and concentration as they move up through the food chain. It follows therefore, that humans, at the top of the food chain, will have the highest concentrations
• the capacity of many to cross the blood-brain and placental barriers
• the increased risk of toxicity resulting from the combined effects of synthetic chemicals on the body.
There are:
‘adverse effects observable in the pattern of human disease, both in foetal malformations and the increase in the incidence of cancer – particularly in young people – and we can observe that those changes have taken place over the same period of time as the introduction of these novel chemicals.’
(Howard 2004)
Several hundred chemicals are found in a wide range of commercial products and conditions we unknowingly encounter in our daily lives. Often overlooked by regulators is the variation in effects on a population from similar exposures, as recorded by biochemist and cancer researcher Ross Hume Hall: ‘Individuals vary greatly in their susceptibility to toxic chemicals, and the differences between men and women can be punishingly large … Women thus can fall victim to legal limits of residues of pesticides and waste chemicals in their supermarket grapes or in their apple juice. Even at their best, EPA [Environmental Protection Agency, USA] regulations disregard the susceptibility to cancer of 50 per cent of the population.’
(The Ecologist 1998)
Assured by periodic statements from government and industry about the safety of regulated chemicals, and lacking the information to challenge such assurances, most of us are quite unaware that: ‘little has been done to prevent exposure to carcinogenic chemicals in the environment, despite ample evidence that chemical pollution of our air, water, food and the workplace is the major cause of cancer.’
(Epstein 1990)
Regards,
April 3rd, 2011 at 12:32 am
ORGANIZED AND LEGALIZED CRIME!!!!!!!!!
1. “We’re often your doctor’s biggest source of information.”
It’s comforting to imagine your physician sitting behind his desk after hours, carefully perusing reports on the latest drugs. While some still do their research the old-fashioned way, many doctors today get the bulk of their information from drug reps who are pushing specific medicines. To make sure physicians are paying attention, pharmaceutical companies spend more than $50 billion a year on promotional activities, according to a 2008 report, the most recent available.
Typically, says Allen F. Shaughnessy, doctor of pharmacology and professor of family medicine at Tufts University, a drug rep gives a 90-second spiel that hits three or four salient points, followed by the classic sales pitch. And often doctors will bite. Reps “are very effective in changing physician behavior,” says Shaughnessy. That interaction is necessary says a spokesman for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), an industry group, because the companies have the most knowledge about the treatments that took them years to develop.
To gauge how seriously your physician relies on drug reps, Shaughnessy suggests that you press for details: “Ask why you are taking the drug he is prescribing, and make sure you understand what they explain.” This approach will either get you the information you need, “or else you’ll see a physician who blusters and carries on about why you are questioning him,” says Shaughnessy. The latter scenario “will show you that they don’t have a clue.”
2. “Hype is our favorite medicine.”
Choosing a medication shouldn’t be like choosing Pepsi over Coke. But that’s very much what’s happening, thanks to the drug companies and their ad agencies. With famous faces like Sally Field, NBA star Alonzo Mourning and Lance Armstrong all playing spokesperson for various brands of medication, the companies marketing prescription drugs have learned to harness celebrity star power to help boost their brands.
Blame it on the Food and Drug Administration. In the late 1990s, the agency’s decision to liberalize drug advertising allowed direct-to-consumer, or DTC, campaigns, and pharmaceutical ad budgets skyrocketed. From 1996 to 2005, spending on DTC campaigns increased 330 percent, according to a 2007 study by The New England Journal of Medicine, the most recent study available.
“It’s horrendous,” says Brian L. Strom, M.D., chairman of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania. “It’s directly in conflict with proper therapeutics. But the manufacturers use patients as arms of their marketing departments.” It can be dangerous, too. When Olympian Dorothy Hamill appeared promoting Vioxx for her arthritis pain, prescriptions were filled before the drug’s heart risks became known. Strom says the drugs advertised are exactly the ones patients should not use. “If you needed them, I would have given them to you already,” he says.
3. “There’s no such thing as a free sample.”
Patients love getting free trial-size medications from their doctors, doctors like giving them away, and drug companies rely on samples to filter new treatments into the pharmaceutical mainstream. In pushing free samples, drug companies hope that physicians will continue to prescribe the new—and often pricier—medication long after the honeymoon period is over. If the sample drug works and is tolerated, the physician will often continue to prescribe it instead of alternatives. The small outlay for free samples will eventually be compensated by large profits when physicians start prescribing the drug at full price, says Allan S. Brett, a professor of medicine and director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of South Carolina.
While some believe that free samples are an important source of medication for uninsured patients who can’t afford to pay, studies have shown that most free samples are actually given to insured, says Brett. A bigger issue is safety, says Joel Lexchin, an emergency medicine doctor and professor at the School of Health Policy and Management at York University in Toronto. “What is being sampled is usually the newest product that has less known about its overall safety profile,” says Lexchin.
In a recent statement about free samples, PhRMA said: “Clearly, the most important components of a prescribing decision are the physician’s clinical knowledge and the patient’s unique situation. Free samples can provide a useful tool in the prescribing decision.”
4. “Your doctor is our bounty hunter.”
Facing mounting pressure to bring new medicines to market, drug companies often pay doctors who refer patients for their studies. And depending on the drug being tested, the payments will often be in thousands of dollars per patient. It should be noted, these aren’t payments for referring a patient. The physician is receiving payment to enroll a patient in a study, but he or she is involved in the research as well, says Daniel Carlat, a psychiatrist in Newburyport, Mass., who writes about the pharmaceutical industry on his blog.
“Because there are such large financial incentives to enroll patients in studies, there’s the possibility that the patient might be enrolled inappropriately,” says Carlat. The problem is that patients who might be better served by getting standard medical treatment might instead be enrolled in a trial – and end up getting a placebo or another medication that they shouldn’t.
The American Medical Association says it provides guidelines for physicians to manage potential conflicts of interest, and advises doctors to “be mindful of the conflicting roles of investigator and clinician and of the financial conflicts of interest that arise from incentives to conduct trials and to recruit subjects.”
5. “You’ll find out about side effects the hard way.”
The arthritis painkiller Vioxx, a blockbuster drug after it was introduced in 1999, was taken off the market in 2004 when a study linked the drug to an increased risk of stroke and heart attack. Bextra, another painkiller, was also removed from the market in 2005 after it was found to pose heart risks.
The problem is that after a drug is approved, there’s not a real systematic way for identifying side effects, and making sure those are captured and detected in a reliable way, says James G. Stevenson, associate dean for clinical sciences at the University of Michigan Health System’s College of Pharmacy. There is a post-marketing surveillance process in the U.S., but it’s voluntary. It relies on physicians and health-care providers to report possible problems with a drug to the FDA or the manufacturer. “It’s their choice to do something with the information,” Stevenson says.
Critics point to the drug industry’s funding of the FDA through so-called user fees – in the range of hundreds of millions of dollars a year. A company pays user fees when it submits the research that the FDA reviews before deciding to approve a reject a new drug. (These fees were legislated in 1992, under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, with the aim of helping drugs get FDA review quicker.) Groups like Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization, say there’s an inherent conflict of interest. An agency cannot effectively regulate an industry that pays the salary of so many of its employees, says Dr. Sydney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group.
Concerns about a conflict of interest are misplaced, according to the PhRMA, which says that the legislation has done much to advance public health and that safety is a big focus of the FDA drug review process.
6. “With all these complicated drug names, it’s no wonder you’re confused!”
The FDA reviews over 500 proprietary (or “brand”) name drugs a year, through the Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology. Before a drug’s final moniker is settled on, it has to pass an expert panel review, handwriting and verbal analyses, a computer analysis, and overall risk evaluation, collectively aimed at minimizing the risk of soundalike and look-a-like names. But problems persist: Medication errors result in more than 7,000 deaths a year, according to the Institute of Medicine. How to avoid getting the wrong medication? Check your pills against those represented in an up-to-date illustrated reference book, such as “The Pill Book” by Harold Silverman (14th edition is set for release in April).
With so many drug names floating around, it’s not surprising that there are mix-ups. Each drug has a brand name and most have a generic name. Names can potentially look or sound similar. “There are only have so many letters in the alphabet,” says Stevenson of the University of Michigan. PhRMA says it has worked with and continues to work with the FDA and other groups to prevent medication errors.
7. “Don’t trust anything you read about our drugs online . . .”
If you’re searching the Internet for information on, say, arthritis, what better place than a site like Arthritis.com, right? Not necessarily. While you will certainly get information there, it will come from Pfizer, maker of arthritis drug Celebrex — not exactly an unbiased source. Similarly, if you’re looking to read up on depression, you’ll find the site Depression.com is run by GlaxoSmithKline, maker of antidepressants Wellbutrin and Paxil. The problem with these drug-sponsored medical-information sites is that they can easily be mistaken for noncommercial information sources.
Even when such affiliations are made clear, the fine line between editorial and advertorial—which can be as subtle as the exclusion of seemingly minor details—becomes even finer when viewed on a computer screen. Nevertheless, Robert Rosa, professor of medicine and dean of regulatory affairs at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, doesn’t think it is an issue for most readers of these sites. They are sophisticated enough to realize that the company is sponsoring the information, he says.
The most egregious misinformation online comes from companies peddling non-FDA-regulated products such as vitamins, minerals, and supplements, according to Brooks Edwards, M.D., the founding medical editor-in-chief of MayoClinic.com. “The most important thing in evaluating information is knowing where it’s coming from,” Edwards says. “Sometimes you can tell on the Internet, and sometimes you can’t.”
8. “. . . and be extra careful when ordering meds over the Internet.”
Given that Americans spent more than $300 billion on prescription drugs in 2009, the temptation to shop around online for the cheapest prices can be alluring, especially for those who value privacy. But like with most things in life, cheaper doesn’t necessarily mean better. In fact, when it comes to buying prescription drugs over the Internet, big discounts might mean counterfeit capsules.
The World Health Organization says counterfeit medicines pose huge health risks and that the growth in international trade of pharmaceutical ingredients and medicines adds further complexity to the issue. In over 50% of cases, drugs purchased online from illegal sites that conceal their physical address have been found to be counterfeit, according to the WHO.
Since web site content is unregulated, the FDA’s only recourse is to issue warnings to the public about unreliable online purveyors of pharmaceuticals. It recommends that when buying medication online, you do so only from licensed pharmacies located in the United States; also, make sure the site requires a prescription and has a pharmacist available to answer questions by phone. You can find a list of state-licensed pharmacies on the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy web site.
9. “We know your medication history—because we bought it.”
When a prescription is billed to a third party — any HMO or pharmacy benefits-management company — that third party can sell the data back to the drug manufacturer. This allows drug companies to know – in a particular zip code, for example – which medications are being prescribed and in what amounts, says Stevenson. And manufacturers can use that information to better target their sales efforts. “It’s like market research,” Stevenson says.
In 2006 the American Medical Association made it an option for doctors to keep their prescribing information inaccessible to reps. As of 2010, about 25,000 had opted out (out of more than 700,000 patient-care physicians).
Such information is extremely valuable to pharmaceutical companies, which use it to gauge the degree to which individual doctors are prescribing one medication over another in the same class. Then, in order to stimulate sales, drug companies offer a range of perks to groups of physicians plucked from the drugstores’ sales info. Their swag arsenal includes everything from dinners out to trips for medical conferences—all of which ultimately contribute to the rocketing costs of medication. “Doctors think of themselves as totally rational,” says Tufts’ Allen Shaughnessy.“They get offended when I tell them that they are human and cannot be wined and dined without being influenced.” PhRMA says prescription data help companies properly educate doctors about drugs in a targeted manner. And in the event of a drug shortage, a suspected drug counterfeiting or drug recall, “the federal system relies on the manufacturer to communicate directly and promptly with prescribing physicians,” a PhRMA spokesman said in a statement.
The just-passed health-care reform also has a provision requiring drug and device companies, starting in 2013, to publicly report payments and gifts made to doctors. Some companies already do disclose such payments. However, there’s nothing in the provision that actually prevents doctors from giving these paid speeches, notes Allan Coukell, director of the Pew Prescription Project, a drug safety initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts.
10. “We’re in cahoots with your insurer.”
Stephen Fried was in the midst of writing “Bitter Pills,” an exposé of the pharmaceutical industry, when a doctor suddenly switched his uncle from Procardia XL to a similar high-blood pressure drug called Norvasc. Fried says he found out that “drug companies offer substantial discounts [to health care managers] if they put all their [appropriate] patients on a particular drug.” Insurers, of course, are trying to cut costs amid a continued rise in health care expenditures, and doctors typically do what the HMO requests. The problem? “You can have seizures, heart problems, dementia,” Fried says. “The only reason to switch drugs should be to enhance your health. But most drug switches are made for dollars and cents.”
A drug company providing financial incentive to a pharmacy benefits manager to switch a patient from one drug to another without good reason is obviously problematic, says Carlat, the Newburyport, Mass., psychiatrist. Even when drugs are in the same class and are designed to treat the same symptoms, they are not necessarily identical. One drug may not work as well as the other, and could have a different set of side effects, he says.
April 3rd, 2011 at 12:33 am
Dear Sir / Madam,
NEVER STOP TAKEING YOUR MEDICATIONS ABRUPTLY!
DO IT SLOWLY AND PRESISTANTLY WITH ADVISE OF COMPETENT / NON BIASS ( not inclined to present or hold a partial perspective at the expense of (possibly equally valid) alternatives ) PROFESSIONAL!!!!!!!!
AT THE TIME, WHEN DOCTORS BECOMED PADDLERS FOR PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES……………………:)
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool…
Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
There is much moral posturing in an industry that is only too well aware, that it capitalizes on a captive market of the desperate and the afflicted.
THIS IS out right criminal!
It is always CRUCIAL in recovery to wean off of any drugs slowly; it will make the withdrawal process smoother and easier. NEVER go off “cold turkey”. It is very dangerous.
Big Pharma subjects Population to the most horrifying experiences imaginable. It does ravage sick people (in most cases does make people sick by directly /indirectly imposing drugs for any and all factual /illusion medical conditions) in order to keep CUSTOMER BASE EVER GROWING!!
All medications do create both physical and psychological dependency!
Drugs by definition – are poisons to the body. All drugs are poisons. Sometimes, however, a person’s state has reached the point where a poison is the best option. Drugs will make you profoundly sick!
Stoned by Prescription
Imagine the media informing you that a jumbo has gone down, killing all on board. Imagine being informed of such an event every single day of the year – year after year for four decades. That’s about 140,000 people a year. And that’s what’s happening: the victims are people treated with properly prescribed legal drugs for properly diagnosed illnesses. They die from prescription drugs – not from their diseases. Some deaths are caused by the 187,000 known drug interactions nobody thought to check for, but most are from the drugs themselves. Add to these reported adverse reactions another 10 to 50% for the unreported cases. (April 1998 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.)
Millions don’t die, of course, and for them these drugs work – for a while. They live (sort of) with the so-called side effects: Aspirin seriously depletes vitamin C making you vulnerable to infection. Diuretics deplete potassium vital for heart and muscle function. The Pill depletes folic acid and vitamin C and vastly increases your risk of cancer, as do other synthetic sex hormones. Antibiotics, taken frequently, kill favorable intestinal bacteria and cause systemic candidiasis, which can trigger both cancer and autoimmune disease. The SSRI antidepressants (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors like Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft etc.) deplete the B vitamins, the detoxicant Selenium, the brain food zinc, the nerve and enzyme food magnesium, the bone builder calcium, the cancer preventives L-gluthathione and vitamin C (some diabetic medications do all of this also). Many SSRIs are addictive, tend to ruin your sex life, most are toxic to the liver, and they can reduce blood flow to the brain as well. All statin drugs, meant to lower bad cholesterol to prevent heart attacks, deplete Co-enzyme Q 10, the very stuff your heart needs most to function, and they greatly increase your chance of developing one of the worst autoimmune diseases: Lupus. Arthritis medications, steroidal or non-steroidal, deplete all of these vital nutrients, some are suspected carcinogens, all deplete essential fatty acids making one vulnerable to depression, psychosis, skin diseases and more. The non-steroidal ones called NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) can cause irreversible and fatal intestinal bleeding. Steroids after prolonged use are no longer absorbed by the stripped cell receptors leaving only painkillers. They also cause osteoporosis.
Among the “oops!” variety we find drugs like Thalidomide in the 1960s which caused tens of thousands of terrible birth defects before it was pulled off the market. In the 1980s the heart drug Tamocor killed literally thousands of people before it was pulled. CBC’s Ideas (March 13, 2001) aired the research into deadly drugs by Thomas Moore, a health policy analyst and author of Deadly Medicine. Moore observed, “So deeply embedded is the human desire to a have a pill …. [we] have suspended our normal critical faculties when it comes to drugs. We have something that every consumer should know is their right, and they never get it, and that is the right to informed consent.”
Consent is messy when big bucks are at stake. The main players in Big Pharma, as these companies call themselves, are Merck (market value in 1998 at US $ 140 billion), Bristol-Myers-Squibb ($100 billion), Johnson & Johnson ($ 93 billion), DuPont ($ 87 billion), Dow Chemical ($21 billion), Monsanto ($33 billion). Four-fifth of Big Pharma’s total budget serves only one fifth of the world’s population. As Robinson observes, “The drugs that are needed are not necessarily the drugs that sell” because drugs that work have expired patents and are needed by four fifth of the world without money.
I was stunned and fascinated (and absolutely sickened) by the fabulously researched and heart-poundingly well-written new bestseller by Jeffrey Simpson: Prescription Games and Eichenwald’s The Informant. Reading these requires a strong stomach and a serious case of lust for truth. For four decades these companies have consistently been first in return of revenues, assets, and equity, fifth in profit growth and fourth in total return for investors. Drug profits surpass all other Fortune 500 companies, and they have for forty years outperformed Standard & Poor’s 500 Index by 10% every year. All this mind-boggling wealth is made on drugs for cancer, cholesterol, smoking, hair loss, impotence, ulcers, menopause and depression. “Blockbuster drugs are harvested out of chronic diseases”.
These astronomical profits (1,000% mark-up over production cost is the norm) became supported by taxpayer’s money, which pays for most of the actual drug development costs, ever since former Prime Minister Mulroney’s 1993 Bill C-91. In 1997 the US allowed pharmaceuticals to advertise to the consumer directly, exponentially increasing profits. Harvard university’s Jerry Avorn proved that prescription habits by doctors are overwhelmingly influenced by drug reps. Research has further shown, that what the drug reps tell the doctors is mostly hot air. For example, to ensure that sales for Prozac, whose patent expires this year, don’t drop too painfully fast for the manufacturer Eli Lilly (also the world’s premier manufacturer of biological warfare materials), it is now recommended for Premenstrual Syndrome. (PMS is well known to be mediated by magnesium, progesterone and essential fatty acid deficiencies.) Pharmaceutical reps wine and dine doctors, send them on vacations, offer up to $ US 40,000 per patient recruited for studies, or as Dr. T. Rohland of Nova Scotia reported in The Medical Post (Feb.9, 1999): “If [the drug companies] can no longer appeal to our greed by giving us gifts, then a new tactic is needed. How about our raging uncontrollable hormones? Enter the gorgeous, young, model-type drug reps.” One doctor kept track of drug rep visits and mailings (Medical Post May 22, 2001) which came to 452 promotional encounters in one year. In Canada, only Quebec and British Columbia have legislation prohibiting pharmacies from selling information on doctors’ prescription patterns to Big Pharma. In all other provinces this information is available and also used to influence the licensing bodies, the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, to conduct witch hunts against doctors who treat diseases instead of being accessories to making patients into cash cows.
The World Health Organization has recognized this “inherent” conflict of interest between legitimate business goals and social needs” for a long time – to no effect. Former Health Canada scientists, Dr. Michelle Brill-Edwards, provides the reason for this. She told Robinson: “The dilemma of those in power is not ‘Do you serve citizens versus do you serve corporations?’ That’s a no-brainer. People in power serve the corporations because they have the money.” But sometimes the human conflict can happen right within a pharmaceutical company: Merck’s CEO was appalled to learn that millions of Africans go blind every year from river blindness, a disease easily prevented with a derivative of the cheap heart-worm medication we give our dogs. He ended up defying his own board of directors and angry investors and donating millions to stop this illness – successfully.
Interestingly, these same companies also make the pesticides which cause all of the diseases in the first place, either directly by ingestion, skin contact or inhalation, or indirectly by dangerously depleting the nutrients in the foods. What an amazingly effective business strategy! Part of this strategy – logically – is to control research. This is a typical North American problem. In Europe most research is government funded and out of the reach of direct business interests. That’s why we get all that exciting research on nutritional and environmental medicine from Europe. In Canada and the US research is primarily funded by drug companies whose contracts always contain gag clauses preventing researchers from reporting negative findings, should these occur. Controlling research and clinical practice starts in the medical schools with the drug reps’ pizza parties. When MacMaster University, frustrated, declared their interns off limits to pharmaceutical reps, instructing these doctors of the future to read their research journals instead, the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association threatened to withdraw all funding (Star, Dec. 3, 1999).
Internationally famous blood researcher, Dr. Nancy Olivieri, found a drug to be toxic to the liver and wanted to change patient consent forms accordingly. Sick Children’s Hospital and the University of Toronto fired her to please the manufacturer Apotex. That backfired. Nobel laureates, Oxford and Harvard universities demanded an end to gag clauses. She was reinstated and this month the US based Civil Justice Foundation awarded her the prestigious Community Champion Award. The last recipient was Erin Brockovich.
Canada seems to figure prominently in this resistance movement. Internationally renowned researcher Dr. David Healy, hired by U of T was fired before he started following a speech about the dangers of Prozac (suicide, violence, and brain damage). This one backfired even worse. The editors of the world’s most prestigious medical journals issued joint editorials on September 12th condemning Big Pharma’s attempt to control research and clinical practice. They will henceforth refuse publication of Big Pharma-funded research unless all the data are made available and gag clauses vanish. At the same time, 27 internationally famous medical scientists, among them 2 Nobel laureates, published a condemnation of U of T’s treatment of Dr. Healy, declaring its reputation “poisoned”.
It is gratifying that all of this information you have read here is published by first-rate researchers and produced by mainstream publishers. The tide is turning against biotechnology and drugs. Perhaps war and drugs will not drive world economy forever. We are not as stupid as they think we are.
What You Need To Know and Do:
1. Always assume the drug prescribed is toxic – unless proven otherwise. Browsing the internet sites of the US Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and Health Canada will tell you which drugs are currently under review because of serious problems.
2. There is no such thing as a “side effect”; it is exactly what you can expect to experience, at least in part, along with whatever primary effect the drug is intended to have. Air pollution is inseparably part of cars.
3. Assume that any drug is at best a necessary emergency measure, rarely a long-term requirement, and almost never a cure. There are situations, in which they are imperative and life saving, but on most of those the patent has expired. They are the tried and true pharmaceutical arsenal, and not aggressively marketed nor advertised because they have no stock value.
4. Always ask your doctor for a full explanation of the prescribed drugs: what is the active ingredient? What so-called “side-effects” can you expect and how high is the percentage of those? Is there any record of addictive properties? How did it fare in human trials? Did it ever have human trials? If it didn’t – ask yourself if you are ready to be that human trial.
5. Always ask your doctor for the source of his/her information: did it come from personal reading of a medical journal or a drug rep? If the source is a drug rep, treat the information with a ton of salt, turn to the internet to find out more also about the entire family of drugs it belongs to, what side effects they consistently have, and what safer and cheaper alternatives exist. Did your doctor have good results with this drug with his/her own patients, or are you a guinea pig?
6. If you don’t have access to the internet, and before taking the newly prescribed drug, go to your library and get out the latest copy of the CPS: Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties. Look up the drug and learn all about the side effects and clinical trials, which by law the manufacturer must publish annually. While much is not fully reported, this information is generally scary enough to make you think. Photocopy those pages and ask your doctor for explanations. If he/she doesn’t have the time or doesn’t want to make the time – change doctors. Your business is to become healthy, not accommodate your doctor.
7. Treat Over-The-Counter (OTC) drugs with exactly the same caution as you would prescription drugs.
8. If you have been prescribed an anti-depressant, a so-called psychotropic drug (for mental health problems ranging from schizophrenia to severe depression or eating disorders), a drug that influences the heart, your cholesterol levels, your endocrine system (i.e. anything at all hormonal), or a cancer drug – buy or borrow the books listed at the end and find out its commercial and biological history first. Again: your business is to become healthy, not make the undertakers wealthy.
9. Always, always discuss nutritional, herbal and vitamin /mineral supplementation as an alternative to whatever pharmaceutical treatment your doctor suggests. If he/she knows nothing about it – back to the library and internet. This is equally true for any surgical procedure whatsoever.
10. Beware of experimental drugs – especially for chronic illness (cancer, autoimmune and cardiovascular disease, anything expected to influence cell division). Well-researched, scientifically proven treatments and outright cures have been around for whatever ails you for a long time. Resist being the playground/victim for the human fascination with new, high-tech toys.
11. If you are asked to enter a clinical trial designed to be “double blind and placebo controlled”, think twice. A huge body of scientific literature questions the medical ethics of giving sugar pills to people in control group patients who are just as sick as those getting the active drug. Inquire about toxicity. The chemistry of the experimental drug will be known. Ask who is paying for the drug trial: if it is a pharmaceutical company, they want to bring this drug to market and expect a healthy return for their investment. Negative results will be discouraged.
12. The more authoritarian and rushed the doctor behaves, the less he/she really knows. The more collaborative, encouraging of exploration the doctor is, the more likely you will improve. If you “can’t talk to that guy” – don’t. Change doctors (there are many other excellent ones) or go to a herbalist, homeopath, or naturopath. (The word “doctor” originally meant “teacher”, and medicine must return to teaching.) True, they are not covered by OHIP, but the toxic sludge you might be prescribed, is expensive and may ruin your life.
13. Corruption and ignorance are part of the fabric of life, therefore, research the alternatives as carefully as the mainstream solution. Not all supplements are created equal, and money is an object. Toronto has excellent compounding pharmacies that specialize in supplements. They will tell you which products are best, have the least artificial ingredients, and how they interact with conventional medication or each other.
… this is a chemical holocaust against General Public!! What needs to happen before this reign of medical terror is brought to an end?+
The natural health community will achieve significant victories in awakening people to natural remedies, medicinal herbs and the core ideas of health freedom. The monopolistic pushers of pharmaceuticals (FDA) are fighting a desperate, losing battle to try to keep people ignorant, but they will lose that fight and natural medicine will ultimately emerge as the healing method of choice for an increasing number of people.
The global shift away from pharmaceuticals and toward disease prevention and nutrition will accelerate, with vitamin D leading the charge. An increasing number of people will learn about top nutrients such as resveratrol, astaxanthin and omega-3s. Nutrition education will become increasingly evident in the public.
The industry of psychiatry as we know it today will continue crumbling under the burden of fraud and criminal behavior, finally collapsing thanks to the efforts of more and more people.
Today, most people are sleepwalking through their lives, functioning as cogs in a giant machine of which they have no knowledge and no control. Soon that will significantly change. More and more people will be awakened into a state of awareness.
It is evident that grand experiment of nations and civilizations now is playing out across our tiny planet, bringing living through suffering, oppression and slavery. Those nations which forget the importance of health and freedom are doomed to eventually destroy themselves. Only those nations which recognize freedom and invest in the health of their citizens have any sustainable future. And one day a nation of truly free people will undoubtedly rise from the ashes of whatever is left after the current global miscalculations run their course.
I would have to describe the pharmaceutical industry as mob-like.
It is scary how many similarities there are between this industry and the mob.
The mob makes obscene amounts of money, as does this industry. The side effects of organized crime are killings and deaths, and the side effects are the same in this industry. The mob bribes politicians and others, and so does the drug industry—which has been proven in many different cases. You could go though a 10-point list discussing similarities between the two. The difference is, all these people in the drug industry look upon themselves—well, I’d say 99 percent, anyway—look upon themselves as law-abiding citizens, not as citizens who would ever rob a bank. Not as citizens who would ever go out and shoplift. And the individuals who run these companies would probably not do such things. However, when they get together as a group and manage these corporations, something seems to happen. Just look at all of these billion-dollar fines—Schering Plough, I think is in the lead now with $1.2 or $1.3 billion in fines; and number two is Bristol-Myers Squibb. It’s pretty scary that they’re committing crimes that cause [the government] to levy those enormous amounts of fines against them. So there’s something that happens to otherwise good citizens when they are part of a corporation. It’s almost like when you have war atrocities; people do things they don’t think they’re capable of. When you’re in a group, people can do things they otherwise wouldn’t, because the group can validate what you’re doing as okay.
I’ve only worked in the drug industry so I don’t know about the others. But it’s been the drug industry and the defense industry that have been getting hit with the most fines. But it is mainly the drug industry today. I think there are so many things one could do wrong—opportunities for one to cheat—in the drug industry. You know, if you build a car and you cut corners, you’re going to have a bad-quality car and the Japanese are going to take away your market. But in the drug industry, that’s not how it works. You get a situation like the ENHANCE trial with Schering Plough [The ENHANCE trial was supposed to show that Schering Plough’s cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin, which is made up of both Zocor and Zetia, was better at reducing plaque in the arteries than Zetia alone. But, after an infamous two-year delay, the results ended up showing just the opposite]. The only thing that happened there was that Fred Hassan [CEO of Schering Plough] made a $13 million bonus that he wouldn’t have received if he released the data earlier. So, for the individual managers, there is very little downside to cheating.
Clearly, the drug industry doesn’t want to kill people. But at the same time, I’m not sure if it’s always completely unintentional. Yeah, they don’t want to kill people because it’s bad for business, right. But if you look at a number of these cases where people inside the company knew they had problems. If you look at Merck with Vioxx, for example; if you look at Bayer and the lipid-lowering drug they had that caused liver failure, Baycol. Those guys knew that these drugs were causing major problems (deaths). And they knew these problems resulted in serious side effects, including death. Yet they kept on selling the drugs. So is that intentional or not?
It is unnerving, especially considering how important the industry is. You look at how these companies have behaved. Usually they transform to do whatever is best for the company. The chemical company that made the poison gas used in the concentration chambers, Zyklon B, became a drug company. They are now trying to disavow that as part of their heritage. IG Farben was the company. And one of their subsidiaries became a couple of the German drug companies—Bayer and some others. They now claim that they weren’t actually the legal entity, so there is debate over it, but I believe they paid some money to the victims. So most of these companies are going to do whatever it takes to survive under their current political management: If it’s democracy fine; if it’s not democracy, they’re going to play along. It’s very amoral.
We have to recognize that these big companies are all building small paramilitary organizations inside the companies that answer to no one except the company itself.
Perhaps fifty years from now this system will simply come crashing down under its own weight. But considering the money that people can make here—from doctors to insurance companies to HMOs to hospitals—the way the political system works here, these groups have so much power, it’s going to be a very hard system to change.”
HEALTH REPORTER
Heart patients on a popular combination of high blood pressure drugs have an increased risk of heart attacks and other ailments from the coupled medications and should see their doctor as soon as possible, new guidelines released today by the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation say.
Taking it’s cue from a massive study released last year, the foundation recommendations should all but eliminate the practice of prescribing so called ACE Inhibitors and ARBs together, organization officials say.
“When you put the two drugs together, you don’t get a synergy of effect, all you do is get the side effects of both adding up,” says Dr. Sheldon Tobe, a foundation spokesperson.
“So there’s a doubling up of the side effects as opposed to a doubling up of the benefits,” Tobe says.
The new guidelines were based in large part on a massive international study, released last spring, which looked at nearly 26,000 patients and tested the effectiveness of the two drugs separately and together.
April 3rd, 2011 at 1:47 am
Dear Sir/Madam,
700,000 people, mostly children, end up in ER every year for pharmaceutical drug poisoning.
Besides motor vehicle accidents, the second leading cause of injury death in the US is drug-related poisoning, according to a new study published in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. The study indicates that nearly 700,000 people end up in emergency rooms (ER) every year from pharmaceutical drug poisoning — and most of these visits involve young children.
Roughly 28,000 people die every year due to drug-related poisoning, and the highest poisoning rates are among children under five years of age. Forty-three percent of all these poisonings are caused by antidepressant drugs and common painkillers, many of which are available without a prescription. And all this death occurs under the watch of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) are together participating in Poison Prevention Week, an awareness campaign designed to warn the public about the poisons that lurk in their homes — which apparently is dominated primarily by pharmaceutical drugs.
According to a recent press release, the groups are asking the US Congress to continue funding the 57 poison control centers across the US that assist the public with poison emergencies. The cost of funding these centers is more then $29 million a year, which of course comes from taxpayers.
“People are abusing prescription drugs and over-the-counter drugs, and it’s a serious and growing problem,” said Dr. Sandra Schneider, president of ACEP. “Very young children had the highest rate of unintentional drug poisoning, which is a wake-up call for parents to make sure their medicines are out of reach.”
Besides the millions spent every year operating the poison control centers, the costs associated with the hundreds of thousands of drug-related ER visits is even more astronomical, topping $1.4 billion in 2007. Such a figure makes sense to anyone who has ever been to the ER and actually seen the final bill — a single visit can literally cost thousands of dollars.
To sum things up, the actually yearly cost of FDA-approved drugs to society is almost 700,000 ER visits, 28,000 deaths, and roughly $1.5 billion. And the FDA really could not care less, as the agency seems to spend most of its time censoring the truth about medicinal foods and herbs, raiding family farms, and targeting dietary supplements for elimination.
Drug Companies and Their Unhealthy Influence On Our Lives.
Throughout the history , mankind has been dreaming and searching for a
panacea . What if a miraculous medical breakthrough were to take place
today and an effective method discovered which can make us all
profoundly healthy and robust in our physical constitutions ? It would be
the ultimate nightmare of the big business pharmaceutical industry , and
they would go to any lengths to pull every string they can in to
suppress such a cure-all from becoming public knowledge . Today ,
achieving health and wellbeing of the people is no more the true concern
of the hospitals or the drug companies . They purportedly exist to take
care of people ‘s health , but their real work is geared towards looking
after their selfish financial interests . If people really start becoming
more and more healthy , and it becomes a trend , these giant
pharmaceutical companies can close shop . On the other hand if people
become more anxious and apprehensive about their health , and more sick ,
in a real or imaginary sense , it would mean boom time for the drug
lords . The most important way drug companies strive to realize their
ignoble purposes is by subjecting both consumers and doctors to heavy
marketing campaigns . People in their turn become easy victims to the
such propaganda because of a truly disconcerting lack of education about
health and illness in our society . If we do not deal with this situation
as a society , it can soon escalate into a dangerous crisis , and even
become the undoing of science and progress .
_____________ (g ) Drug companies , Roche and Wyeth , producers of Valium and Ativan
respectively , should be urgently investigated by the DTI and Serious
Fraud Squad , into corporate fraud and corruption (Para 46 ) Roche and
Wyeth should be the subject of Police Authority investigations into
charges of Corporate Manslaughter and other criminal acts (Para 47 .
- House of Commons Health Committee Report , 2005 (180 )
In Ancient Greece , the Hippocratic physicians were rather chary of
drugs . Their mistrust is reflected in the fact that the original meaning
of the word pharmakon referred to magical potions , evil spells , and
poisons . In the Homeric epic of Odyssey , when the witch Circe turns the
companions of Odysseus into swine , she does so making them ingest
pharmakon (Bardes 136 )
For decades now , the big pharma companies have been pulling off a con
job to foist their products on vulnerable consumers . It would seem that
the sole consideration that drives these mega corporations is profit , to
realize which they might not even hesitate to turn people into swine , if
only that could make them buy and gorge on all kinds of pills
indiscriminately .
As patients we look to our doctors for help and without even a second
thought we trust what they have to say . The problem in today ‘s society
is that as consumers we are being blindsided and victimized by the same
people we trust with our lives . Now not only can the big pharmaceutical… Rergards,
April 3rd, 2011 at 1:48 am
Dear Sir/ Madam,
Neo-Pharmaceutical Terrorism
Neo-Pharmaceutical Terrorism is what I call it. The constant bombardment of new drugs in the market these days, forced upon us through such mediums as television, magazine ads, radio, and the multitude of other means they use to sell their poisons. This dependency in Western society upon legal chemicals such as Viagra, Aspirin, etc. is directly responsible for the loss of the so called drug war. Bayer, as you may well know, was, and in my opinion, still is a Nazi corporation. Ig Farben, the original seed that sprouted Bayer, along with the likes of Hoechst, BASF, and AFGA, etc, is still alive and ultimately winning this subtle battle that goes on all around us yet many do not see…
Ig Farben, short for Interessen-Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG, or I.G.Farbenfabriken, began as a “conglomerate of companies formed in 1925 and even earlier in WW 1″, as quoted in the Wiki. Continuing, the Wiki page also notes that ‘farben’ is german for ‘paints’,'dyes’, or ‘colors’. Amuses me a bit seeing that ‘the perfect race’ was white and didn’t involve any other ‘colors’. But I ramble. ONWARD DAMN YOU!
Ig Farben was the main financial structure of the Hitler regime. Aside from greasing a few palms, Ig Farben was also the top supplier for Zyklon-B (Cyclon-B ), the cyanide based insecticide used to exterminated over a million people in the Nazi concentration camps. Now… Before the war, the ‘color’ companies had a near complete monopoly in the world market, which ended durring the war. The only option they had was a larger merger.
Ig Farben was broken up into several small corporations which were immediately bought by the larger companies that used to make up Ig Farben.
AGFA, BASF, and Bayer remain today, while Hoechst merged with the French Rhone-Poulenc Rorer to form Aventis. Bayer, as you’ve probably seen on television maintains a vice-like grip on the balls of the televised pharmaceutical ads. Merck, one of the top four pharmaceutical companies in the world, is “A United States pharmaceutical company”. Merck is the U.S shoot off of Merck KGaA.
The Wiki Quotes as follows:
“Merck KGaA is a German based pharmaceutical company. Merck was founded in Germany and privately owned until going partly public in 1995. Following World War I, Merck lost possession of its foreign sites including the Merck & Co. subsidiary in the United States. Merck & Co., called Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD) outside the USA and Canada, is now an independent company.
Merck KGaA (also referred to as “German Merck†or “Merck Darmstadtâ€) is one of the oldest still operating chemical-pharmaceutical companies in the world established in 1668. The German based pharmaceutical company operates mainly in Europe. Since Merck & Co. has rights to the Merck name in the USA and Canada, the company operates under the umbrella brand EMD in North America, formed from the initials of Emanuel Merck, Darmstadt.”
While all that info is well and good, I’m beginning to get a sneaking suspicion that this company has a little more to do with Ig Farben than first reported. Not because it’s mention in the Wiki quote above, but because is one of the oldest pharmaceutical companies in Europe, it’s also one of the most powerful.
But off of that for a moment. Now, as you read this, close your inner eyes and imagine with me if you will.
The news headlines scream a war on drugs, and the U.S government rushes off, gung ho to ‘do it’s duty’ and ‘be all it can be’. The ‘Drug War’ ends and a few years pass… Soon, one by one, these commercials begin to enter our lives, telling us that we are sick, and that we have diseases, and that if we don’t take this pill that they have for ‘IT’, YOU won’t get better and you’ll be miserable. Capice?
Now, you let these commercials go, after all, they ARE just commercials. Soon there are more of them, and more of them. Soon you can’t even turn your fucking tele on because you’ll have some drug thrust in your face with side effects that are worse than the actual disease itself.
The side effects begin to add up in your mind until finally, you notice the trends, the way that 90% of these so called ‘new improved medicines’ seem to have side effects so bad one wonders why someone would ingest it.
Want an answer? Chemical dependency. Pure, plain, and simple. Our nation has become one so dependant upon outside support that we really cease to be ‘free’, not that we ever were to begin with. At least, not since the ‘manifest destiny’ bullshit. Be it Gestapo tactics, Governmental manipulators, etc. We never solve anything internally anymore.
Now. Open your eyes and look at the news. We have a “War on Terrorism”. After reading the previous paragraphs, wouldn’t this lead you to believe that we’ll soon start selling terrorists via television? Well… That’s an odd thought, but completely and utterly factual. We DO sell terrorism. We DO sell weapons. We DO sell Terrorists. Hmmm… Oh, and we don’t do windows. At the rate this is going, I’m going to be able to get ‘Jihad’ in a can, and ‘Bin Laden in a basket’. It’s all just a matter of time. If you’ll excuse me, I have a headache now so I NEED to take an asprin.
Regards,
April 5th, 2011 at 11:05 pm
How the Drug Industry Deceives Doctors |
Following doctor’s orders has become synonymous with danger. Every year, FDA approved drugs kill twice as many people as the total number of U.S. deaths from the Vietnam War.[1] Death by medicine flourishes because deceit, not science, governs a doctor’s prescribing habits. As an ex-drug chemist, I witnessed this first-hand.
This deceit comes in many forms. Medical ghostwriting and checkbook science are the most prominent.
Doctors rely on peer-reviewed medical journals to learn about prescription drugs. These journals include the Lancet, British Medical Journal, New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. It is assumed that these professional journals offer the hard science behind any given drug. This assumption is wrong. Medical journals can’t be trusted thanks to medical ghost writing.
Medical ghostwriting is the practice of hiring PhD’s to crank out drug reports that hype benefits and hide negative side effects. Once complete, drug companies recruit doctor’s to put their name on the report as authors. These reports are then published in the above mentioned medical journals.[2] The carrot for this deceitful practice is money and prestige. Ghostwriters can receive up to $20,000 per report. Doctors receive prestige from having been published. Ultimately, patients get bad drugs disguised as good medicine.
As deplorable as medical ghostwriting sounds, it is more common than you think. Dr. David Healy, of the University of Whales, predicts that 50% of journal drug reviews are written by ghostwriters.[3]
Dr. Jeffrey Drazen, editor for the New England Journal of Medicine, insists that he cannot find drug review authors who do not have financial ties to drug companies. As a result, the journal had to relax their conflict-of-interest rules in 2000.[4]
The editor of the British Journal of Medicine has acknowledged that medical ghostwriting has become a serious problem for his publication: “We are being hoodwinked by the drug companies. The articles come in with doctors’ names on them and we often find some of them have little or no idea about what they have written.”[5]
Consider the testimony from deputy editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association: “This [journal articles] is all about bypassing science. Medicine is becoming a sort of Cloud Cuckoo Land, where doctors don’t know what papers they can trust in the journals, and the public doesn’t want to believe.”[6]
Other weapons of mass deception exist – checkbook science. As defined by Diana Zuckerman, PhD, checkbook science is research intended not to expand knowledge or to benefit humanity, but instead to sell drugs. It has stolen the very soul of University research, scientific method, and the patients who serve as human subjects.[7]
Drug companies use checkbook science to sponsor their own drug research via the halls of academia and government institutions. Money is used to design their own studies, interpret the results, and stuff negative data under the drug-rug. The drug-rug is a behemoth rug. It has to be. A myriad of negative drug data exists.
Like medical ghostwriting, checkbook science is more common than you think. A third of academic professors have personal financial ties to drug makers.[8] Called the “Stealth Merger” by the LA Times, top scientists at the National Institutes of Health also collect paychecks and stock options from the drug industry.[9] This has been going on for over 20 years.[10] Known as the Bayh-Dole Act, U.S law was amended in 1980 to allow for these flagrant conflicts of interest.
This calculated deceit is scandalous. Hopefully the line at the pharmaceutical trough gets shorter as this scandal becomes public. Though, drug makers have an insurance policy for this – Direct-to-Consumer advertising. The oft repeated “ask your doctor” ensures that the herd instinctively embraces drugs, drugs and more drugs.
Understanding medical ghost writing and checkbook science explains why medical doctors have been hypnotized into drug worship – they only see the positive. It also explains why modern medicine is more deadly and lucrative than war – the danger has been silenced with the pen and money.
Drug companies do not take responsibility for the wonton prescription drug deceit. Instead, victims have been made invisible – dehumanized. They are not recognized as children, or men with significant contribution to society. Their deaths are simply shrugged off and attributed to sickness or aging.
Those who profit from prescription drugs should hold some sort of record for the having the most reckless disregard for human life. If the deceit continues the prescription drug leviathan will silently kill more people than Napalm dropped on Vietnamese villages.
About the Author
Ellison’s entire career has been dedicated to the study of molecules; how they give life and how they take from it. He was a two-time recipient of the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Grant for his research in biochemistry and physiology. He is a bestselling author, holds a master’s degree in organic chemistry and has first-hand experience in drug design. Use his knowledge and insight to look and feel your best in 90 days with his AM-PM Fat Loss Discovery.
References
1. Approximately 58,000 American’s died in Vietnam. FDA approved drugs kill 106 – 125,000 people per year when used as prescribed.
2. Source: CBC’s Marketplace. Aired March 25, 2003. Researcher Colman Jones.
3. Antony Barnett. Revealed: how drug firms ‘hoodwink’ medical journals. Pharmaceutical giants hire ghostwriters to produce articles – then put doctors’ names on them. The Observer. Sunday December 7, 2003
4. Tufts eNews. Relaxing The Rules. Does the New England Journal of Medicine’s decision to relax its conflict of interest policy strengthen or weaken the prestigious publication? Boston [06.19.02]
5. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1101680,00.html
6. Shannon Brownlee. Doctors Without Borders. Why you can’t trust medical journals anymore. Washington Monthly. April 2003.
7. Zuckerman, D. Hype in health reporting: “checkbook science” buys distortion of medical news. International Journal of Health Services. 2003;33(2).
8. Bekelman, J.E., Li, Y. and Gross, C. P. Scope and impact of financial conflicts of interest in biomedical research. Journal of the American Medical Association. 289: 454-465.
9. William D. Stealth merger: drug companies and government medical research. Los Angeles Times. 2003 Dec 7;:A1, A32-3.
April 6th, 2011 at 1:42 am
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A document or other information may be sought not by subpoena, but rather in the form of a letter (or an oral request) from a law enforcement agency such as the police force or a statutory body.
In such a case, care must be taken to ensure that personal information or health information is only disclosed in accordance with the Information Privacy Principles in the Information Privacy Act and the Health Privacy Principles in the Health Records Act. The body or its representative requesting the information should state what.
The recipient of a subpoena may wish to rely on a limitation or exception in any individual case. In such case an application to the court or tribunal which issued the subpoena has to be made if the recipient wishes to have it set aside.
(in self defense / bring a countersuit against accuser / harasser)
April 14th, 2011 at 12:35 am
Dear Sir/Madam,
The lawlessness of the Apotex, Big Pharma immunity, and crimes against humanity!
How many millions more have to die from this chemical holocaust before this reign of medical terror is brought to an end?
Apotex exposed own employees to appalling and atrocious conditions at work.
Apotex is defiant, not regretful, with out remorse, not willing to correct wrong doings. Company, OHR Tribunal as well as other Government Agencies (collectively GOVERNMENT of Ontario) got engaged in intentional malicious conduct violating all statutes with a reckless indifference. They acted in the face of a perceived risk that their actions will violate all laws.
Apotex /Counsel after 6 years of disabling me, torturing me, denials of medical help, denials of Constitutional and Law protection as well as many other criminal acts eventually admitted all allegations (additionally confirmed by some more Agencies). Apotex refuse to plea “Guilty” and in further criminal acts decided to challenge my Application on technicalities / alleged preliminary issues.
I was and am tortured by Apotex, Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario’s Ombudsmen Office, Office of the Worker Adviser, Ontario Human Rights Commission/Tribunal and some more Agencies. Canadian Government institutions mandated to assist General Public in time of misfortune, suffer and despair selected to engage in criminal activities and assist criminal Corporation which is stone waling an Ontarian / victim with life threatening medical conditions. Those Institutions deprived me from Constitutional and Law protection. Apotex and its accomplices denied me medical help, deprived me of all means of sustaining myself and are not regretful. Apotex, Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario’s Ombudsmen Office sentenced me and my family for life of suffer, despair, hunger and poverty. Apotex shattered my and my family’s dreams and future (indirectly killed my two elderly parents-I was sole provider). Apotex/Counsel many times derailed my attempts to get help and justice.
Bellow is a List of terrorists imbedded in Government Agencies and engaged in criminal acts against me (Apotex’s victim) and against society.
They perpetuated RETRIBUTION, DISCRIMINATION, and HERRASMENT, did knowingly and willfully make a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statements and representation in a matter within the jurisdiction of the Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Tribunal and other Government Agencies, in the process DENIED MEDICAL HELP as well as obstructed Canadian Constitution, Legal System etc. They committed many counts of perverting the course of justice or intending to pervert the course of justice, many counts of perjury, criminal conspiracy, criminal negligence, criminal recruitment of false witnesses, attempted murder, did contribute to my permanent disability, irreparable damage. Preliminary matters are that those individuals in premeditated manner are torturing me for MANY, MANY years and pending. They / Company act without any consideration for the human rights and my well being despite their awareness of my situation and familiarity with my File.
Those individuals falsified all records provided by them to Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Tribunal and other Government Agencies (collectively Government) and engaged other people in criminal conspiracy (documented) which untimely further deteriorates my state of health. On behalf of Company they committed many counts of perverting the course of justice or intending to pervert the course of justice, many counts of perjury, criminal conspiracy, criminal negligence, criminal recruitment of false witnesses, attempted murder, did contribute to permanent disability, irreparable damage.
Those individuals got involved in my Case, purposely were omitting /altering very critical evidence and medical conditions (or were reducing it in to insignificance) and were paid for it while limiting my professional and personal life, making challenging my social life, destroyed my marriage, imposed extreme hardship on my family and relatives/friends and in vicious / malicious manner on on going bases are preventing me from enjoying my Constitutional Right to obtain medical help, be able to provide for myself etc.
Those individuals directly /indirectly are committing crimes against humanity, committing acts of domestic and Global terrorism and should be investigated by Amnesty International, FBI, Ministry of Public Safety and trialed by Tribunal in Strasburg for such crimes.
It is important that they be loudly condemned!
List is not complete and it can be amended accordingly.
ONTARIO LABOUR BOARD:
Mr. Tim R. Parker (Registrar – Ontario Labour Relations Board)
Ms. Kelly Weddingham (Board Member)
Mr. Voy T. Stelmaszynski (Board Solicitor)
ONTARIO SAFETY and INSURANCE BOARD(..how “fatally flawed” / criminal was investigative /adjudicative process conducted by WSiB?):
Ms. Jull Hutcheon (President and CEO)
Ms. P. Houston (Manager Occupational Disease)
Ms. D. Regan (Claims Adjudicator)
Ms. T. Asturi (Claims Adjudicator)
Ms. S. Bennett (Appeals Resolution Officer)
ONTARIO FAIR PRACTICES COMMISSION:
Ms. Marie Matcalfe (Fair Practices Specialist)
WORKER ADVISOR:
Ms. Margaret Townsend (Manager –Worker Adviser)
ONTARIO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION / TRIBUNAL:
Ms. Patricia Grenier (Registrar –Human Rights Tribunal – Member of Toronto Amnesty International)
Ms. Caroline Rowan (OHRT MEMBER – FULL TIME VICE CHAIR AT THE ONTARIO LABOUR RELATIONS BOARD).
ONTARIO OMBUDSMEN:
Ms. Angela Alibertis (Investigator)
APOTEX:
Dr. Berry Sherman (Chairman – CEO)
Mr. Jack Key (President –COO Apotex)
Mr. Ron Davidson (Vice President HR)
Dr. David Coffin – Beach (President TorPharm/Apotex)
Mr. Brant Laurin (FSS –Director Engineering)
Ms. Joan Lowden (Director HR)
Mr. Amir Shafei (Manager- FSS)
Mr. Joe Sproviero (FSS- Manager)
Ms. Steven Sloan (Safety? /H.R.?)
Ms. K. Koos (Apotex WSiB Claims Manager)
Mr. Vic Patel (Safety Rep. (?)- Apotex’s criminal witness!)
Mr. R. G. (FSS Supervisor)
Mr. R. C.(FSS Supervisor)
Mr. M. B. (FSS Supervisor)
Mr. C. Peterson (Apotex’s criminal Counsel- Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti).
He could not restrain his bad impulses.
He prevented me from access to Lawyers, to the legal system, to justice!
Mr. Carl Peterson did every thing in his capacity to make me unsuccessful in my drive for help and justice despite his awareness of my medical conditions / personal situation and the evidence conforming my allegations.
CRIMINAL DOCTORS/ ACOMPLICES:
Dr. B. Gibson (Community Occupational Clinic)
Dr. JeeJeeBhoy (cardiologist)
This is fundamentally undemocratic and not acceptable!
Regards,
(Apotex’s victim)
April 14th, 2011 at 12:37 am
“By Peter Rost, M.D.
I have described the pharmaceutical industry as mob-like.
It is scary how many similarities there are between this industry and the mob.
The mob makes obscene amounts of money, as does this industry. The side effects of organized crime are killings and deaths, and the side effects are the same in this industry. The mob bribes politicians and others, and so does the drug industry—which has been proven in many different cases. You could go though a 10-point list discussing similarities between the two. The difference is, all these people in the drug industry look upon themselves—well, I’d say 99 percent, anyway—look upon themselves as law-abiding citizens, not as citizens who would ever rob a bank. Not as citizens who would ever go out and shoplift. And the individuals who run these companies would probably not do such things. However, when they get together as a group and manage these corporations, something seems to happen. Just look at all of these billion-dollar fines—Schering Plough, I think is in the lead now with $1.2 or $1.3 billion in fines; and number two is Bristol-Myers Squibb. It’s pretty scary that they’re committing crimes that cause [the government] to levy those enormous amounts of fines against them. So there’s something that happens to otherwise good citizens when they are part of a corporation. It’s almost like when you have war atrocities; people do things they don’t think they’re capable of. When you’re in a group, people can do things they otherwise wouldn’t, because the group can validate what you’re doing as okay.
I’ve only worked in the drug industry so I don’t know about the others. But it’s been the drug industry and the defense industry that have been getting hit with the most fines. But it is mainly the drug industry today. I think there are so many things one could do wrong—opportunities for one to cheat—in the drug industry. You know, if you build a car and you cut corners, you’re going to have a bad-quality car and the Japanese are going to take away your market. But in the drug industry, that’s not how it works. You get a situation like the ENHANCE trial with Schering Plough [The ENHANCE trial was supposed to show that Schering Plough’s cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin, which is made up of both Zocor and Zetia, was better at reducing plaque in the arteries than Zetia alone. But, after an infamous two-year delay, the results ended up showing just the opposite]. The only thing that happened there was that Fred Hassan [CEO of Schering Plough] made a $13 million bonus that he wouldn’t have received if he released the data earlier. So, for the individual managers, there is very little downside to cheating.
Clearly, the drug industry doesn’t want to kill people. But at the same time, I’m not sure if it’s always completely unintentional. Yeah, they don’t want to kill people because it’s bad for business, right. But if you look at a number of these cases where people inside the company knew they had problems. If you look at Merck with Vioxx, for example; if you look at Bayer and the lipid-lowering drug they had that caused liver failure, Baycol. Those guys knew that these drugs were causing major problems (deaths). And they knew these problems resulted in serious side effects, including death. Yet they kept on selling the drugs. So is that intentional or not?
It is unnerving, especially considering how important the industry is. You look at how these companies have behaved. Usually they transform to do whatever is best for the company. The chemical company that made the poison gas used in the concentration chambers, Zyklon B, became a drug company. They are now trying to disavow that as part of their heritage. IG Farben was the company. And one of their subsidiaries became a couple of the German drug companies—Bayer and some others. They now claim that they weren’t actually the legal entity, so there is debate over it, but I believe they paid some money to the victims. So most of these companies are going to do whatever it takes to survive under their current political management: If it’s democracy fine; if it’s not democracy, they’re going to play along. It’s very amoral.
We have to recognize that these big companies are all building small paramilitary organizations inside the companies that answer to no one except the company itself.
Perhaps fifty years from now this system will simply come crashing down under its own weight. But considering the money that people can make here—from doctors to insurance companies to HMOs to hospitals—the way the political system works here, these groups have so much power, it’s going to be a very hard system to change.”
April 14th, 2011 at 12:39 am
Dear Sir/Madam,
“We’re often your doctor’s biggest source of information.”
It’s comforting to imagine your physician sitting behind his desk after hours, carefully perusing reports on the latest drugs. While some still do their research the old-fashioned way, many doctors today get the bulk of their information from drug reps who are pushing specific medicines. To make sure physicians are paying attention, pharmaceutical companies spend more than $50 billion a year on promotional activities, according to a 2008 report, the most recent available.
“Hype is our favorite medicine.”
“Your doctor is our bounty hunter.”
Facing mounting pressure to bring new medicines to market, drug companies often pay doctors who refer patients for their studies. And depending on the drug being tested, the payments will often be in thousands of dollars per patient. It should be noted, these aren’t payments for referring a patient. The physician is receiving payment to enroll a patient in a study, but he or she is involved in the research as well, says Daniel Carlat, a psychiatrist in Newburyport, Mass., who writes about the pharmaceutical industry.
“Because there are such large financial incentives to enroll patients in studies, there’s the possibility that the patient might be enrolled inappropriately,” says Carlat. The problem is that patients who might be better served by getting standard medical treatment might instead be enrolled in a trial – and end up getting a placebo or another medication that they shouldn’t.
In recent years, errors in treatment have become a serious problem for hospitals, ranging from operations on wrong body parts to medication mix-ups.
At least 1.5 million patients are harmed every year by medication errors, according to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Please note, that my former Doctor does keep patients medical info/ data and special charts on her personal laptop computer to keep it confidential.
I believe that she does conduct illegal clinical study/trials on unsuspecting and very sick patients.
While I requested from her Office assistant some data about my personal situation, she replied that she has no access to any info and only Doctor has all of it on her personal computer.
I witnessed while in the waiting room, other patients visibly very, very sick were coming for a visit with shopping bags of prescribed medications.
I also was ordered by Doctor to bring my medications along for every visit so she can count every tablet I took and indicate it on her personal charts.
(In my professional career I was associated with CLINICAL TRIALS and I am familiar with procedures).
Dr. JeeJeebhoy’s statements to WSiB, that I did not take all recommended by her tests, is incomprehensible. She deteriorated my condition, contributing great deal to my misery as well as to lengthy WSiB’s process and denial of my Claim!
Dr. JeeJeebhoy falsified rapport to WSiB about my condition and with her medically unsupported conclusions she negatively influenced processing of my WSiB Claim. (She stated to WSiB: ”number of times he tried to say to me, that his medical conditions are work related, BUT I REFUSED TO BOLIVE HIM”)!
It is outrageous to make any decision based on criminal activity /feed back of a such source (documented)!
Dr. JeeJeeboy is vigorously complaining to WSiB about my non compliance in treatment, but she failed to acknowledge , that despite my cautioning about my saturation with chemicals (psychiatric drugs,antidepresants, natcotics,composition and blood pressure controlling drugs etc.) and need on her behalf to be very selective with prescribing any treatments , she treated me with array of drugs for a illusionary condition which I did not have . I underwent number of tests (amongst in Nuclear Physics Lab) which conformed that I do not have any tumors which Dr. JeeJeebhoy was treating me for with out any evidence of condition. The irresponsible treatment resulted in my emergency submission into Hospital. In the Hospital I was told, that Dr. JeeJeebhoy is treating me with wrong medications for wrong condition (DOCUMENTED AND ACKNOWLEDGED BY OTHER DR.).
Doctors comments , actions (especially Dr.Jeejeebhoy’s) have characteristics of malpractice, clearly indicate lack of genuine concern for my well being and suggest, that Dr. JeeJeebhoy in premeditated manner attempted to trigger stroke or a hart attack in order to stagnate my claims of complex and work related medical conditions.
Doctors do not communicate to WSiB fact that I told them that I do not have any money to pay for any of very expensive drugs they prescribe to me nor I can afford any Specialist’s fees.
Dr.,JeeJeebhoy’s statements are ridiculing and consciously ignoring fact , that my medical conditions are directly related to prolonged and unprotected exposure to drugs at work ( 6.5 years), show that she is incompetent, displayed a lack of knowledge, skill or judgment or disregard for the welfare of patients of a nature or to an extend that demonstrates that she is unfit to continue to practice or that her practice should be restricted.
Dr. JeeJeebhoy committed an act of professional misconduct, in that she committed an act or omission relevant to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by society as disgraceful, dishonorable or unprofessional.
At my very first visit as soon as I stated, that my condition is related to massive exposure to highly potent active ingredients / narcotics etc. she blasted at me like a disturbed parent on to small child.
She screamed at me, quote “I AM NOT A FAMILY PHYSICIAN, I AM A SPECIALIST CARDIOLOGIST AND YOU WILL NOT USE ME”!!!!!!!!
I was shocked with her reaction since I did not have a chance to talk to her before.
She acted in the same manner every time after and she refused to talk about work connection with my condition. Despite my repeated attempts to focus her attention on the real source of my problem in anticipation of help she was arrogantly resistant and in protest she was living examination room many times during my visit, living me undressed and waiting (long , 1 hour etc.) for her return. I could not talk / rationale any thing!
She started to treat me for some imaginary condition (a tumor which I did not have as tests determined) with expensive medication which made me very sick and as result of it I ended up on emergency in the Hospital.
After this incident I again informed Dr. JeeJeebhoy about side effects and in stead of reducing or suspending this medication she doubled the douse.
After that incident I brought my concerns to Dr. …. and in reply Dr.
…stated quota” I did not prescribe to you this medication so I am safe”.
After such statement I stopped taking this medication.
“Paired blood pressure pills pose heart risk
Common medications increase heart attack risk when paired!
January 16, 2009
Joseph Hall
HEALTH REPORTER
Heart patients on a popular combination of high blood pressure drugs have an increased risk of heart attacks and other ailments from the coupled medications and should see their doctor as soon as possible, new guidelines released today by the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation say.
Taking it’s cue from a massive study released last year, the foundation recommendations should all but eliminate the practice of prescribing so called ACE Inhibitors and ARBs together, organization officials say.
“When you put the two drugs together, you don’t get a synergy of effect, all you do is get the side effects of both adding up,” says Dr. Sheldon Tobe, a foundation spokesperson.
“So there’s a doubling up of the side effects as opposed to a doubling up of the benefits,” Tobe says.
The new guidelines were based in large part on a massive international study, released last spring, which looked at nearly 26,000 patients and tested the effectiveness of the two drugs separately and together.
Dear Sir/Madam, please conform receive of this info.
Best Regards,
April 14th, 2011 at 12:40 am
Dear Sir/Madam,
The Industry is not highly regulated, it is self regulated!!!!!!!!!!!
Breach of the Criminal Code duty occurred in a “wanton and/or reckless” manner. Apotex exposed me to the most horrifying experiences imaginable. They mirrored every depiction of hell.
System is cooperating with Criminal Corporation instead of focusing on Criminal Corporation which in horrible manner impacts all sick people.
Company was preventing creation of any medical records related to employee’s side effects associated with products exposure. Company terrorized by many means any one / other employees voicing concerns about issues with Safety and quality of the products.
554 Lots rejected in two years! Apotex’s philosophy was “to antagonize every one against every one” to keep employees week, fragmented, unorganized, not able to question any thing ( safety / luck of protection), absence of Safety Data Shits, production of unknown products, not calibrated / invalidated equipment and systems, adverse product side effects, prevent employees from complaints to Authorities etc. Documents / NOTES can not be lost / misplaced or “not maintained” in the pharmaceutical Company / Industry unless you do not generate any or purposely lose them. What about “good documentation practices”?
Due to introduction of dangerous products all employees in Quality Dept, all in Sanitation Dept, all in Manufacturing Dept -all Operators /Technicians, all in Maintenance Dept and so on left the Company and Company was not able to recruit qualified candidates. This situation created total collapse of compliance with any and all of GMP, SOP and Safety regulations. To great extend, absence of qualified /responsible Personnel, Company’s big financial problems (expansion, Legal liabilities, pending processing of approvals of new products) exhausted/collapsed Company’s financial fluidity and prevented Company from supply of base items (toilet paper, gloves, eye protection, protective uniforms, masks, you name it, etc.).
Those processes were conducted in /on not approved equipment and in manufacturing area not approved for such operations. Many products were under extensive formulation and development stages (in confidentiality). Apotex was/ is /will conceal and manipulate data and underreport info concerning products. In secrecy we did work on Formulation and Development of almost all key products/brands present on the market (solid dose).
As all Operators and other Personnel I got massive exposure to unidentified product (s) – exposed to chemicals in processes. Company criminally concealed names/ nature of processed products. Company processed products with out regulatory permits in Facility not approved for those products (not providing any personal protection for Personnel), did not post Work Orders or Safety Data Shits and did not disclose short and long term health hazards do to massive unprotected exposures. All Operators /Personnel displayed alarming level of medical problems as well as with judgment/reasoning. They did have dramatically decreased concern for safety (obliviousness). We did have cases, when Operators urinated in to the floor drains in process Rooms during production runs etc…..
. Routinely displayed signs of Dementia, aggression, radicalism etc.
I/we were dying every day.
Apotex, who exposes own employees to these extremely addictive drugs with out any protection, with no warning of the addictive properties should be held accountable for the results of that lack of warning and criminal negligence.
Employees worked with out any Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) /collective protection and sustained sever injuries on daily bases.
For period of years my Department’s Manager and Director refused to enter Manufacturing, Packaging Departments as well as services areas despite of countless cases of urgent need of their participation/input.
AS I STATED BEFORE IN MY YEARLIER COMMUNICATIONS, I WORKED ALMOST EXCLUSIVELLY ON NIGHT SHIFTS WITH OUT ANY SUPERVISION /MANAGEMENT. During my period of employment on nights we manufactured most of the products.
IN ALL CASES OF SIGNIFICENT PROBLEMS WITH EQUIPMENT /PROCESSES I WAS ORDERED TO CALL MY MANAGER.
ON ONE OCASSION I CALLED IN MY MANAGER (on the beginning of his employment he was very decent /knowledgeable / cooperative individual until Apotex turned him in to piranha). As soon as he arrived I insisted, that he goes with me in to Manufacturing Department.
He refused to comply for any reason.
Eventually, after long discussion (all petrified) he followed me! WHOT HE WITNESSED MADE ON HIM PROFOUND INPACT. Right after that experience he moved his Office from FFS Department (REGULARLY CONTAMINATED) in to main Offices Building.
He never again entered Manufacturing area. I had to prompt him by e-mails to act to provide at list some protection for me and Operators/ Technicians.
After long time of excuses Manager agreed to bring up this issue with TOP EXECUTIVES AT APOTEX.
AT THE MEETING, ONCE HE TOLD THEM ABOUT MY /HIS CONCERNS, EXECUTIVES ANOUNCED TO HIM THAT ALL SUPLIES ARE PERSONALLY ORDERED BY DR. B. SHERMAN (CEO APOTEX) AND HE PERSONALLY REFUSED TO PURCHASE ANY SAFETY /PERSONAL PROTECTION EQUIPMENT (PPE).
Due to Company’s financial problems selected chemicals were on his priority list to sustain production.
Manager told me, that EXECUTIVES WORNED HIM, THAT IF HE (MANAGER) DOES NOT STOP TO BRING UP MY CONCERNS, and THEY WILL FIRE HIM.
AFTER THAT INSTANCE (and some earlier) MY MANAGER TURNED INTO PIRANAH.
I HOLD DR. BERNARD SHERMAN (CEO APOTEX) and all involved in my Case (negatively impacting my Case) PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL I ALLEAGE.
Corporation selected to ignore Health and Safety regulations and adopted an unrelentingly aggressive stance against me while I expressed concerns in area of Health and Safety and quality of the products.
After criminal termination with out cause of very sick employee Apotex, Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario’s Ombudsmen Office and more Agencies sentenced me and my family for life of suffer, despair, hunger and poverty. Apotex, Ontario Labor Board, WSiB, Ontario’s Ombudsmen Office shattered my and my family’s dreams and future. Apotex many times derailed my attempts to get help and justice. Apotex committed crime against me destroying my health and life by criminal negligence! For very long time they further victimized me denying me my Constitutional Rights to be able to provide for myself. Because of their extended criminal activities I was not able to purchase groceries, medications, to visit Doctors, to pay my bills and I am being repossessed by my creditors.
People from any Managerial, Executive level including ownership must be prevented by Court Order from working in any pharmaceutical, chemical or food industry ever – in the name of Public’s SAFETY!
Situation demands urgent attention and a Public Inquiry! Managers, Executives of all levels including ownership were benefiting from misery of own employees and on misfortune / tragedy of sick and afflicted.
Apotex and all involved in sabotaging of my allegations must be INDICTED and convicted on multiple offences / crime (Criminal Code, Constitutional provisions, Bill – 45, Bill 107, Bill – 168 and other Law provisions).
I experience a hell I never knew existed. All drugs are making me feel very lethargic and all around disabled 24 hours a day every day. Doctors told me that I do have permanent problems. Apotex deprived me of all my Doctors! Some time I do not know whether I am wake or I am a sleep. Paxil /narcotics and other psychiatric actives separated my sole from my body. I think about being some body else (like split personality).Like being floating in my surroundings. Please look at my other submission of my horrifying actives side effects.
It is important to differentiate in between an accident and a crime (criminal, methodical negligence).
They deliberately acted with knowledge of a high degree of probability of serious harm to me and reckless indifference to the consequences of that act. It acted in the face of a perceived risk that its actions will violate all laws. The evidence proves that alleged facts were true.
For years sick people are turning 6? under the ground due to contaminated medications!
Please focus on 7 years of my unprotected work with toxic / controlled substances/narcotics , which are known to cause my conditions even in dosages regularly prescribed by Doctors and much more/worse if over dosed.
I was profoundly sick at the time of occurrence and after (I could not talk, hold a pan, walk, rationalize what was happening).
Apotex subjected me to the most horrifying experiences imaginable. I was/we did “swimm in” / a massive exposure with out any protection to a potent actives/restricted drugs. Drugs, by definition – are poisons to the body. All drugs are poisons. Sometimes, however, a person’s state has reached the point where a poison is the best option.
By not providing employees with any product info and personal protection Apotex promoted products induced violence at work / antidepressant nightmares. Apotex was exterminating own employees an especially of Taliban / Alquaida orientation (90%+ of employees) by not providing them with any product info and personal protection. Due to lack of any Personnel, Apotex started to employ only temporary people (almost solemnly new comers in to Canada from Afghanistan and Pakistan desperate for work and earnings) with out language skills, with out pharmaceutical/ technical EXPERIENCE, with out any awareness of safety equipment. All of them were getting valiantly sick and Apotex rotated them on daily bases. Operators on my shift (nights) in majority were new /temporary employees (very new in to Canada from Afghanistan and Pakistan with out any personal resources desperately trying to make some money). People were displaying horrifying symptoms of products adverse side / overdose effects, many were getting heart attacks, respiratory problems, skin conditions, many (including me ) were getting swollen (popping up like victims of deep sea diving not observing decompression ) and many many more very disturbing medical conditions including psychiatric disorders (profound neurological problems). Sample-one of my co-workers got heart palpitations at work. He was taken by his wife from work in to Hospital. In the Hospital he collapsed. Second time he was taken from work to his family Doctor where he collapsed at Doctor’s Office with hearth problems and he was taken on emergence in to the hospital by ambulance. (Company managed to destroy all records of those incidents). Fortunately all other record of that incident survived-including blood work and some other tests done by Doctor. Again, I and my NEW partner were the only ONCE non Taliban and white persons in the plant.
I started to supply ALL ON MY SHIFT with proper FIRST AID materials on my own in order to prevent their suffer and I did it for very long time!
We did have on daily bases incidents/accidents and substantial multi product spills.
Apotex did every thing in its capacity to make me unsuccessful in my drive for help and justice despite Company’s awareness of my medical conditions / personal situation and the evidence conforming my allegations.
Regards,
April 14th, 2011 at 12:42 am
ACTIVE PHARMACEUTICAL INGREDIENT(ingrédient pharmaceutique actif) – Any substance or mixture of substances that is intended to be used in the manufacture of a drug (medicinal) product and that, when used in the production of a drug, becomes an active ingredient of the drug product. Such substances are intended to furnish pharmacological activity or other direct effect in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease or to affect the structure and function of the body.
Hundreds of chemicals are capable of inducing cancer in humans or animals after prolonged or excessive exposure.
Nitrates, Carcinogens, Arsenic & Pharmaceuticals!
Primary prevention is the answer!
Chemical carcinogens
Information on this webpage is drawn from our 2005 report:
Experts agree that most cancers are caused by our bodies or parts of them being exposed to certain substances over long periods of time. These cancer causing substances are called carcinogens.
(NHS 2001)
Chemical carcinogens
The chemical agents of cancer have become entrenched in our world in two ways: first, and ironically, through man’s search for a better and easier way of life; second, because the manufacture and sale of such chemicals has become an accepted part of our economy and our way of life.
(Carson 1962)
The main source of human exposures to carcinogens today is man-made chemical compounds. By 1985 it could be stated as a fact that ‘nearly all of the synthetic [man-made] chemicals regularly used in industry today did not exist 40 years ago [in the 1940s]. Of the 45,000 toxic chemicals listed by the US National Institute of Safety and Health (NIOSH) in 1980, 2,500 were identified as carcinogens, 2,700 as mutagens [causing genetic change] and 300 as teratogens [causing malformation of an embryo]. Less than 7,000 had been adequately tested.
(Grossart 1985)
This is old, not new knowledge. Yet it was only during the last 15 years of the 20th century that medical science began to associate the unprecedented growth rates of many diseases with modern chemicals. While in the same 15-year period some chemical compounds were banned or reduced (in number and use) through tighter regulations, man-made chemicals continued to be developed and marketed in an ever-widening range of products and applications. The universal application of man-made chemicals in every sphere of modern life has made exposure to them an unavoidable, lifelong reality for each one of us. The vast majority of industrial chemicals have never been tested for their potential to cause or promote cancer.
Synthetic chemicals are in some cases proven to harm – and in other cases suspected of being harmful – to human health for a range of reasons:
• the majority are based on carbon, and for this reason, are particularly dangerous to us because being based on carbon, the chemistry of all life, they readily enter human tissues and seriously disrupt the body’s complex processes and complex chemical reactions.
(Harte et al ‘Toxics A-Z’ 1991)
• many of those which have been tested are known or suspected carcinogens
• increasing numbers are found to disrupt the function of the endocrine (hormone) system. This group has particular significance for hormone-related cancers such as breast cancer
• some are both carcinogenic and hormone-disruptive e.g. atrazine, an agricultural pesticide widely used in the UK
• the increasing numbers found to ‘persist’ (remain a long time in the environment) as a result of being designed to be ‘stable compounds’ which are therefore not broken down in the environment by micro-organisms and in the human body by metabolic processes
• the increasing numbers found to be ‘bioaccumulative’ (build-up in the body, mostly in fatty tissue). Chemical compounds that accumulate in living tissues increase in number and concentration as they move up through the food chain. It follows therefore, that humans, at the top of the food chain, will have the highest concentrations
• the capacity of many to cross the blood-brain and placental barriers
• the increased risk of toxicity resulting from the combined effects of synthetic chemicals on the body.
There are:
‘adverse effects observable in the pattern of human disease, both in foetal malformations and the increase in the incidence of cancer – particularly in young people – and we can observe that those changes have taken place over the same period of time as the introduction of these novel chemicals.’
(Howard 2004)
Several hundred chemicals are found in a wide range of commercial products and conditions we unknowingly encounter in our daily lives. Often overlooked by regulators is the variation in effects on a population from similar exposures, as recorded by biochemist and cancer researcher Ross Hume Hall: ‘Individuals vary greatly in their susceptibility to toxic chemicals, and the differences between men and women can be punishingly large … Women thus can fall victim to legal limits of residues of pesticides and waste chemicals in their supermarket grapes or in their apple juice. Even at their best, EPA [Environmental Protection Agency, USA] regulations disregard the susceptibility to cancer of 50 per cent of the population.’
(The Ecologist 1998)
Assured by periodic statements from government and industry about the safety of regulated chemicals, and lacking the information to challenge such assurances, most of us are quite unaware that: ‘little has been done to prevent exposure to carcinogenic chemicals in the environment, despite ample evidence that chemical pollution of our air, water, food and the workplace is the major cause of cancer.’
(Epstein 1990)
Regards,
April 14th, 2011 at 12:43 am
ORGANIZED AND LEGALIZED CRIME!!!!!!!!!
1. “We’re often your doctor’s biggest source of information.”
It’s comforting to imagine your physician sitting behind his desk after hours, carefully perusing reports on the latest drugs. While some still do their research the old-fashioned way, many doctors today get the bulk of their information from drug reps who are pushing specific medicines. To make sure physicians are paying attention, pharmaceutical companies spend more than $50 billion a year on promotional activities, according to a 2008 report, the most recent available.
Typically, says Allen F. Shaughnessy, doctor of pharmacology and professor of family medicine at Tufts University, a drug rep gives a 90-second spiel that hits three or four salient points, followed by the classic sales pitch. And often doctors will bite. Reps “are very effective in changing physician behavior,” says Shaughnessy. That interaction is necessary says a spokesman for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), an industry group, because the companies have the most knowledge about the treatments that took them years to develop.
To gauge how seriously your physician relies on drug reps, Shaughnessy suggests that you press for details: “Ask why you are taking the drug he is prescribing, and make sure you understand what they explain.” This approach will either get you the information you need, “or else you’ll see a physician who blusters and carries on about why you are questioning him,” says Shaughnessy. The latter scenario “will show you that they don’t have a clue.”
2. “Hype is our favorite medicine.”
Choosing a medication shouldn’t be like choosing Pepsi over Coke. But that’s very much what’s happening, thanks to the drug companies and their ad agencies. With famous faces like Sally Field, NBA star Alonzo Mourning and Lance Armstrong all playing spokesperson for various brands of medication, the companies marketing prescription drugs have learned to harness celebrity star power to help boost their brands.
Blame it on the Food and Drug Administration. In the late 1990s, the agency’s decision to liberalize drug advertising allowed direct-to-consumer, or DTC, campaigns, and pharmaceutical ad budgets skyrocketed. From 1996 to 2005, spending on DTC campaigns increased 330 percent, according to a 2007 study by The New England Journal of Medicine, the most recent study available.
“It’s horrendous,” says Brian L. Strom, M.D., chairman of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania. “It’s directly in conflict with proper therapeutics. But the manufacturers use patients as arms of their marketing departments.” It can be dangerous, too. When Olympian Dorothy Hamill appeared promoting Vioxx for her arthritis pain, prescriptions were filled before the drug’s heart risks became known. Strom says the drugs advertised are exactly the ones patients should not use. “If you needed them, I would have given them to you already,” he says.
3. “There’s no such thing as a free sample.”
Patients love getting free trial-size medications from their doctors, doctors like giving them away, and drug companies rely on samples to filter new treatments into the pharmaceutical mainstream. In pushing free samples, drug companies hope that physicians will continue to prescribe the new—and often pricier—medication long after the honeymoon period is over. If the sample drug works and is tolerated, the physician will often continue to prescribe it instead of alternatives. The small outlay for free samples will eventually be compensated by large profits when physicians start prescribing the drug at full price, says Allan S. Brett, a professor of medicine and director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of South Carolina.
While some believe that free samples are an important source of medication for uninsured patients who can’t afford to pay, studies have shown that most free samples are actually given to insured, says Brett. A bigger issue is safety, says Joel Lexchin, an emergency medicine doctor and professor at the School of Health Policy and Management at York University in Toronto. “What is being sampled is usually the newest product that has less known about its overall safety profile,” says Lexchin.
In a recent statement about free samples, PhRMA said: “Clearly, the most important components of a prescribing decision are the physician’s clinical knowledge and the patient’s unique situation. Free samples can provide a useful tool in the prescribing decision.”
4. “Your doctor is our bounty hunter.”
Facing mounting pressure to bring new medicines to market, drug companies often pay doctors who refer patients for their studies. And depending on the drug being tested, the payments will often be in thousands of dollars per patient. It should be noted, these aren’t payments for referring a patient. The physician is receiving payment to enroll a patient in a study, but he or she is involved in the research as well, says Daniel Carlat, a psychiatrist in Newburyport, Mass., who writes about the pharmaceutical industry on his blog.
“Because there are such large financial incentives to enroll patients in studies, there’s the possibility that the patient might be enrolled inappropriately,” says Carlat. The problem is that patients who might be better served by getting standard medical treatment might instead be enrolled in a trial – and end up getting a placebo or another medication that they shouldn’t.
The American Medical Association says it provides guidelines for physicians to manage potential conflicts of interest, and advises doctors to “be mindful of the conflicting roles of investigator and clinician and of the financial conflicts of interest that arise from incentives to conduct trials and to recruit subjects.”
5. “You’ll find out about side effects the hard way.”
The arthritis painkiller Vioxx, a blockbuster drug after it was introduced in 1999, was taken off the market in 2004 when a study linked the drug to an increased risk of stroke and heart attack. Bextra, another painkiller, was also removed from the market in 2005 after it was found to pose heart risks.
The problem is that after a drug is approved, there’s not a real systematic way for identifying side effects, and making sure those are captured and detected in a reliable way, says James G. Stevenson, associate dean for clinical sciences at the University of Michigan Health System’s College of Pharmacy. There is a post-marketing surveillance process in the U.S., but it’s voluntary. It relies on physicians and health-care providers to report possible problems with a drug to the FDA or the manufacturer. “It’s their choice to do something with the information,” Stevenson says.
Critics point to the drug industry’s funding of the FDA through so-called user fees – in the range of hundreds of millions of dollars a year. A company pays user fees when it submits the research that the FDA reviews before deciding to approve a reject a new drug. (These fees were legislated in 1992, under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, with the aim of helping drugs get FDA review quicker.) Groups like Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization, say there’s an inherent conflict of interest. An agency cannot effectively regulate an industry that pays the salary of so many of its employees, says Dr. Sydney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group.
Concerns about a conflict of interest are misplaced, according to the PhRMA, which says that the legislation has done much to advance public health and that safety is a big focus of the FDA drug review process.
6. “With all these complicated drug names, it’s no wonder you’re confused!”
The FDA reviews over 500 proprietary (or “brand”) name drugs a year, through the Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology. Before a drug’s final moniker is settled on, it has to pass an expert panel review, handwriting and verbal analyses, a computer analysis, and overall risk evaluation, collectively aimed at minimizing the risk of soundalike and look-a-like names. But problems persist: Medication errors result in more than 7,000 deaths a year, according to the Institute of Medicine. How to avoid getting the wrong medication? Check your pills against those represented in an up-to-date illustrated reference book, such as “The Pill Book” by Harold Silverman (14th edition is set for release in April).
With so many drug names floating around, it’s not surprising that there are mix-ups. Each drug has a brand name and most have a generic name. Names can potentially look or sound similar. “There are only have so many letters in the alphabet,” says Stevenson of the University of Michigan. PhRMA says it has worked with and continues to work with the FDA and other groups to prevent medication errors.
7. “Don’t trust anything you read about our drugs online . . .”
If you’re searching the Internet for information on, say, arthritis, what better place than a site like Arthritis.com, right? Not necessarily. While you will certainly get information there, it will come from Pfizer, maker of arthritis drug Celebrex — not exactly an unbiased source. Similarly, if you’re looking to read up on depression, you’ll find the site Depression.com is run by GlaxoSmithKline, maker of antidepressants Wellbutrin and Paxil. The problem with these drug-sponsored medical-information sites is that they can easily be mistaken for noncommercial information sources.
Even when such affiliations are made clear, the fine line between editorial and advertorial—which can be as subtle as the exclusion of seemingly minor details—becomes even finer when viewed on a computer screen. Nevertheless, Robert Rosa, professor of medicine and dean of regulatory affairs at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, doesn’t think it is an issue for most readers of these sites. They are sophisticated enough to realize that the company is sponsoring the information, he says.
The most egregious misinformation online comes from companies peddling non-FDA-regulated products such as vitamins, minerals, and supplements, according to Brooks Edwards, M.D., the founding medical editor-in-chief of MayoClinic.com. “The most important thing in evaluating information is knowing where it’s coming from,” Edwards says. “Sometimes you can tell on the Internet, and sometimes you can’t.”
8. “. . . and be extra careful when ordering meds over the Internet.”
Given that Americans spent more than $300 billion on prescription drugs in 2009, the temptation to shop around online for the cheapest prices can be alluring, especially for those who value privacy. But like with most things in life, cheaper doesn’t necessarily mean better. In fact, when it comes to buying prescription drugs over the Internet, big discounts might mean counterfeit capsules.
The World Health Organization says counterfeit medicines pose huge health risks and that the growth in international trade of pharmaceutical ingredients and medicines adds further complexity to the issue. In over 50% of cases, drugs purchased online from illegal sites that conceal their physical address have been found to be counterfeit, according to the WHO.
Since web site content is unregulated, the FDA’s only recourse is to issue warnings to the public about unreliable online purveyors of pharmaceuticals. It recommends that when buying medication online, you do so only from licensed pharmacies located in the United States; also, make sure the site requires a prescription and has a pharmacist available to answer questions by phone. You can find a list of state-licensed pharmacies on the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy web site.
9. “We know your medication history—because we bought it.”
When a prescription is billed to a third party — any HMO or pharmacy benefits-management company — that third party can sell the data back to the drug manufacturer. This allows drug companies to know – in a particular zip code, for example – which medications are being prescribed and in what amounts, says Stevenson. And manufacturers can use that information to better target their sales efforts. “It’s like market research,” Stevenson says.
In 2006 the American Medical Association made it an option for doctors to keep their prescribing information inaccessible to reps. As of 2010, about 25,000 had opted out (out of more than 700,000 patient-care physicians).
Such information is extremely valuable to pharmaceutical companies, which use it to gauge the degree to which individual doctors are prescribing one medication over another in the same class. Then, in order to stimulate sales, drug companies offer a range of perks to groups of physicians plucked from the drugstores’ sales info. Their swag arsenal includes everything from dinners out to trips for medical conferences—all of which ultimately contribute to the rocketing costs of medication. “Doctors think of themselves as totally rational,” says Tufts’ Allen Shaughnessy.“They get offended when I tell them that they are human and cannot be wined and dined without being influenced.” PhRMA says prescription data help companies properly educate doctors about drugs in a targeted manner. And in the event of a drug shortage, a suspected drug counterfeiting or drug recall, “the federal system relies on the manufacturer to communicate directly and promptly with prescribing physicians,” a PhRMA spokesman said in a statement.
The just-passed health-care reform also has a provision requiring drug and device companies, starting in 2013, to publicly report payments and gifts made to doctors. Some companies already do disclose such payments. However, there’s nothing in the provision that actually prevents doctors from giving these paid speeches, notes Allan Coukell, director of the Pew Prescription Project, a drug safety initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts.
10. “We’re in cahoots with your insurer.”
Stephen Fried was in the midst of writing “Bitter Pills,” an exposé of the pharmaceutical industry, when a doctor suddenly switched his uncle from Procardia XL to a similar high-blood pressure drug called Norvasc. Fried says he found out that “drug companies offer substantial discounts [to health care managers] if they put all their [appropriate] patients on a particular drug.” Insurers, of course, are trying to cut costs amid a continued rise in health care expenditures, and doctors typically do what the HMO requests. The problem? “You can have seizures, heart problems, dementia,” Fried says. “The only reason to switch drugs should be to enhance your health. But most drug switches are made for dollars and cents.”
A drug company providing financial incentive to a pharmacy benefits manager to switch a patient from one drug to another without good reason is obviously problematic, says Carlat, the Newburyport, Mass., psychiatrist. Even when drugs are in the same class and are designed to treat the same symptoms, they are not necessarily identical. One drug may not work as well as the other, and could have a different set of side effects, he says.
April 14th, 2011 at 12:45 am
Dear Sir / Madam,
NEVER STOP TAKEING YOUR MEDICATIONS ABRUPTLY!
DO IT SLOWLY AND PRESISTANTLY WITH ADVISE OF COMPETENT / NON BIASS ( not inclined to present or hold a partial perspective at the expense of (possibly equally valid) alternatives ) PROFESSIONAL!!!!!!!!
AT THE TIME, WHEN DOCTORS BECOMED PADDLERS FOR PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES……………………:)
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool…
Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
There is much moral posturing in an industry that is only too well aware, that it capitalizes on a captive market of the desperate and the afflicted.
THIS IS out right criminal!
It is always CRUCIAL in recovery to wean off of any drugs slowly; it will make the withdrawal process smoother and easier. NEVER go off “cold turkey”. It is very dangerous.
Big Pharma subjects Population to the most horrifying experiences imaginable. It does ravage sick people (in most cases does make people sick by directly /indirectly imposing drugs for any and all factual /illusion medical conditions) in order to keep CUSTOMER BASE EVER GROWING!!
All medications do create both physical and psychological dependency!
Drugs by definition – are poisons to the body. All drugs are poisons. Sometimes, however, a person’s state has reached the point where a poison is the best option. Drugs will make you profoundly sick!
Stoned by Prescription
Imagine the media informing you that a jumbo has gone down, killing all on board. Imagine being informed of such an event every single day of the year – year after year for four decades. That’s about 140,000 people a year. And that’s what’s happening: the victims are people treated with properly prescribed legal drugs for properly diagnosed illnesses. They die from prescription drugs – not from their diseases. Some deaths are caused by the 187,000 known drug interactions nobody thought to check for, but most are from the drugs themselves. Add to these reported adverse reactions another 10 to 50% for the unreported cases. (April 1998 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.)
Millions don’t die, of course, and for them these drugs work – for a while. They live (sort of) with the so-called side effects: Aspirin seriously depletes vitamin C making you vulnerable to infection. Diuretics deplete potassium vital for heart and muscle function. The Pill depletes folic acid and vitamin C and vastly increases your risk of cancer, as do other synthetic sex hormones. Antibiotics, taken frequently, kill favorable intestinal bacteria and cause systemic candidiasis, which can trigger both cancer and autoimmune disease. The SSRI antidepressants (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors like Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft etc.) deplete the B vitamins, the detoxicant Selenium, the brain food zinc, the nerve and enzyme food magnesium, the bone builder calcium, the cancer preventives L-gluthathione and vitamin C (some diabetic medications do all of this also). Many SSRIs are addictive, tend to ruin your sex life, most are toxic to the liver, and they can reduce blood flow to the brain as well. All statin drugs, meant to lower bad cholesterol to prevent heart attacks, deplete Co-enzyme Q 10, the very stuff your heart needs most to function, and they greatly increase your chance of developing one of the worst autoimmune diseases: Lupus. Arthritis medications, steroidal or non-steroidal, deplete all of these vital nutrients, some are suspected carcinogens, all deplete essential fatty acids making one vulnerable to depression, psychosis, skin diseases and more. The non-steroidal ones called NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) can cause irreversible and fatal intestinal bleeding. Steroids after prolonged use are no longer absorbed by the stripped cell receptors leaving only painkillers. They also cause osteoporosis.
Among the “oops!” variety we find drugs like Thalidomide in the 1960s which caused tens of thousands of terrible birth defects before it was pulled off the market. In the 1980s the heart drug Tamocor killed literally thousands of people before it was pulled. CBC’s Ideas (March 13, 2001) aired the research into deadly drugs by Thomas Moore, a health policy analyst and author of Deadly Medicine. Moore observed, “So deeply embedded is the human desire to a have a pill …. [we] have suspended our normal critical faculties when it comes to drugs. We have something that every consumer should know is their right, and they never get it, and that is the right to informed consent.”
Consent is messy when big bucks are at stake. The main players in Big Pharma, as these companies call themselves, are Merck (market value in 1998 at US $ 140 billion), Bristol-Myers-Squibb ($100 billion), Johnson & Johnson ($ 93 billion), DuPont ($ 87 billion), Dow Chemical ($21 billion), Monsanto ($33 billion). Four-fifth of Big Pharma’s total budget serves only one fifth of the world’s population. As Robinson observes, “The drugs that are needed are not necessarily the drugs that sell” because drugs that work have expired patents and are needed by four fifth of the world without money.
I was stunned and fascinated (and absolutely sickened) by the fabulously researched and heart-poundingly well-written new bestseller by Jeffrey Simpson: Prescription Games and Eichenwald’s The Informant. Reading these requires a strong stomach and a serious case of lust for truth. For four decades these companies have consistently been first in return of revenues, assets, and equity, fifth in profit growth and fourth in total return for investors. Drug profits surpass all other Fortune 500 companies, and they have for forty years outperformed Standard & Poor’s 500 Index by 10% every year. All this mind-boggling wealth is made on drugs for cancer, cholesterol, smoking, hair loss, impotence, ulcers, menopause and depression. “Blockbuster drugs are harvested out of chronic diseases”.
These astronomical profits (1,000% mark-up over production cost is the norm) became supported by taxpayer’s money, which pays for most of the actual drug development costs, ever since former Prime Minister Mulroney’s 1993 Bill C-91. In 1997 the US allowed pharmaceuticals to advertise to the consumer directly, exponentially increasing profits. Harvard university’s Jerry Avorn proved that prescription habits by doctors are overwhelmingly influenced by drug reps. Research has further shown, that what the drug reps tell the doctors is mostly hot air. For example, to ensure that sales for Prozac, whose patent expires this year, don’t drop too painfully fast for the manufacturer Eli Lilly (also the world’s premier manufacturer of biological warfare materials), it is now recommended for Premenstrual Syndrome. (PMS is well known to be mediated by magnesium, progesterone and essential fatty acid deficiencies.) Pharmaceutical reps wine and dine doctors, send them on vacations, offer up to $ US 40,000 per patient recruited for studies, or as Dr. T. Rohland of Nova Scotia reported in The Medical Post (Feb.9, 1999): “If [the drug companies] can no longer appeal to our greed by giving us gifts, then a new tactic is needed. How about our raging uncontrollable hormones? Enter the gorgeous, young, model-type drug reps.” One doctor kept track of drug rep visits and mailings (Medical Post May 22, 2001) which came to 452 promotional encounters in one year. In Canada, only Quebec and British Columbia have legislation prohibiting pharmacies from selling information on doctors’ prescription patterns to Big Pharma. In all other provinces this information is available and also used to influence the licensing bodies, the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, to conduct witch hunts against doctors who treat diseases instead of being accessories to making patients into cash cows.
The World Health Organization has recognized this “inherent” conflict of interest between legitimate business goals and social needs” for a long time – to no effect. Former Health Canada scientists, Dr. Michelle Brill-Edwards, provides the reason for this. She told Robinson: “The dilemma of those in power is not ‘Do you serve citizens versus do you serve corporations?’ That’s a no-brainer. People in power serve the corporations because they have the money.” But sometimes the human conflict can happen right within a pharmaceutical company: Merck’s CEO was appalled to learn that millions of Africans go blind every year from river blindness, a disease easily prevented with a derivative of the cheap heart-worm medication we give our dogs. He ended up defying his own board of directors and angry investors and donating millions to stop this illness – successfully.
Interestingly, these same companies also make the pesticides which cause all of the diseases in the first place, either directly by ingestion, skin contact or inhalation, or indirectly by dangerously depleting the nutrients in the foods. What an amazingly effective business strategy! Part of this strategy – logically – is to control research. This is a typical North American problem. In Europe most research is government funded and out of the reach of direct business interests. That’s why we get all that exciting research on nutritional and environmental medicine from Europe. In Canada and the US research is primarily funded by drug companies whose contracts always contain gag clauses preventing researchers from reporting negative findings, should these occur. Controlling research and clinical practice starts in the medical schools with the drug reps’ pizza parties. When MacMaster University, frustrated, declared their interns off limits to pharmaceutical reps, instructing these doctors of the future to read their research journals instead, the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association threatened to withdraw all funding (Star, Dec. 3, 1999).
Internationally famous blood researcher, Dr. Nancy Olivieri, found a drug to be toxic to the liver and wanted to change patient consent forms accordingly. Sick Children’s Hospital and the University of Toronto fired her to please the manufacturer Apotex. That backfired. Nobel laureates, Oxford and Harvard universities demanded an end to gag clauses. She was reinstated and this month the US based Civil Justice Foundation awarded her the prestigious Community Champion Award. The last recipient was Erin Brockovich.
Canada seems to figure prominently in this resistance movement. Internationally renowned researcher Dr. David Healy, hired by U of T was fired before he started following a speech about the dangers of Prozac (suicide, violence, and brain damage). This one backfired even worse. The editors of the world’s most prestigious medical journals issued joint editorials on September 12th condemning Big Pharma’s attempt to control research and clinical practice. They will henceforth refuse publication of Big Pharma-funded research unless all the data are made available and gag clauses vanish. At the same time, 27 internationally famous medical scientists, among them 2 Nobel laureates, published a condemnation of U of T’s treatment of Dr. Healy, declaring its reputation “poisoned”.
It is gratifying that all of this information you have read here is published by first-rate researchers and produced by mainstream publishers. The tide is turning against biotechnology and drugs. Perhaps war and drugs will not drive world economy forever. We are not as stupid as they think we are.
What You Need To Know and Do:
1. Always assume the drug prescribed is toxic – unless proven otherwise. Browsing the internet sites of the US Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and Health Canada will tell you which drugs are currently under review because of serious problems.
2. There is no such thing as a “side effect”; it is exactly what you can expect to experience, at least in part, along with whatever primary effect the drug is intended to have. Air pollution is inseparably part of cars.
3. Assume that any drug is at best a necessary emergency measure, rarely a long-term requirement, and almost never a cure. There are situations, in which they are imperative and life saving, but on most of those the patent has expired. They are the tried and true pharmaceutical arsenal, and not aggressively marketed nor advertised because they have no stock value.
4. Always ask your doctor for a full explanation of the prescribed drugs: what is the active ingredient? What so-called “side-effects” can you expect and how high is the percentage of those? Is there any record of addictive properties? How did it fare in human trials? Did it ever have human trials? If it didn’t – ask yourself if you are ready to be that human trial.
5. Always ask your doctor for the source of his/her information: did it come from personal reading of a medical journal or a drug rep? If the source is a drug rep, treat the information with a ton of salt, turn to the internet to find out more also about the entire family of drugs it belongs to, what side effects they consistently have, and what safer and cheaper alternatives exist. Did your doctor have good results with this drug with his/her own patients, or are you a guinea pig?
6. If you don’t have access to the internet, and before taking the newly prescribed drug, go to your library and get out the latest copy of the CPS: Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties. Look up the drug and learn all about the side effects and clinical trials, which by law the manufacturer must publish annually. While much is not fully reported, this information is generally scary enough to make you think. Photocopy those pages and ask your doctor for explanations. If he/she doesn’t have the time or doesn’t want to make the time – change doctors. Your business is to become healthy, not accommodate your doctor.
7. Treat Over-The-Counter (OTC) drugs with exactly the same caution as you would prescription drugs.
8. If you have been prescribed an anti-depressant, a so-called psychotropic drug (for mental health problems ranging from schizophrenia to severe depression or eating disorders), a drug that influences the heart, your cholesterol levels, your endocrine system (i.e. anything at all hormonal), or a cancer drug – buy or borrow the books listed at the end and find out its commercial and biological history first. Again: your business is to become healthy, not make the undertakers wealthy.
9. Always, always discuss nutritional, herbal and vitamin /mineral supplementation as an alternative to whatever pharmaceutical treatment your doctor suggests. If he/she knows nothing about it – back to the library and internet. This is equally true for any surgical procedure whatsoever.
10. Beware of experimental drugs – especially for chronic illness (cancer, autoimmune and cardiovascular disease, anything expected to influence cell division). Well-researched, scientifically proven treatments and outright cures have been around for whatever ails you for a long time. Resist being the playground/victim for the human fascination with new, high-tech toys.
11. If you are asked to enter a clinical trial designed to be “double blind and placebo controlled”, think twice. A huge body of scientific literature questions the medical ethics of giving sugar pills to people in control group patients who are just as sick as those getting the active drug. Inquire about toxicity. The chemistry of the experimental drug will be known. Ask who is paying for the drug trial: if it is a pharmaceutical company, they want to bring this drug to market and expect a healthy return for their investment. Negative results will be discouraged.
12. The more authoritarian and rushed the doctor behaves, the less he/she really knows. The more collaborative, encouraging of exploration the doctor is, the more likely you will improve. If you “can’t talk to that guy” – don’t. Change doctors (there are many other excellent ones) or go to a herbalist, homeopath, or naturopath. (The word “doctor” originally meant “teacher”, and medicine must return to teaching.) True, they are not covered by OHIP, but the toxic sludge you might be prescribed, is expensive and may ruin your life.
13. Corruption and ignorance are part of the fabric of life, therefore, research the alternatives as carefully as the mainstream solution. Not all supplements are created equal, and money is an object. Toronto has excellent compounding pharmacies that specialize in supplements. They will tell you which products are best, have the least artificial ingredients, and how they interact with conventional medication or each other.
… this is a chemical holocaust against General Public!! What needs to happen before this reign of medical terror is brought to an end?+
The natural health community will achieve significant victories in awakening people to natural remedies, medicinal herbs and the core ideas of health freedom. The monopolistic pushers of pharmaceuticals (FDA) are fighting a desperate, losing battle to try to keep people ignorant, but they will lose that fight and natural medicine will ultimately emerge as the healing method of choice for an increasing number of people.
The global shift away from pharmaceuticals and toward disease prevention and nutrition will accelerate, with vitamin D leading the charge. An increasing number of people will learn about top nutrients such as resveratrol, astaxanthin and omega-3s. Nutrition education will become increasingly evident in the public.
The industry of psychiatry as we know it today will continue crumbling under the burden of fraud and criminal behavior, finally collapsing thanks to the efforts of more and more people.
Today, most people are sleepwalking through their lives, functioning as cogs in a giant machine of which they have no knowledge and no control. Soon that will significantly change. More and more people will be awakened into a state of awareness.
It is evident that grand experiment of nations and civilizations now is playing out across our tiny planet, bringing living through suffering, oppression and slavery. Those nations which forget the importance of health and freedom are doomed to eventually destroy themselves. Only those nations which recognize freedom and invest in the health of their citizens have any sustainable future. And one day a nation of truly free people will undoubtedly rise from the ashes of whatever is left after the current global miscalculations run their course.
I would have to describe the pharmaceutical industry as mob-like.
It is scary how many similarities there are between this industry and the mob.
The mob makes obscene amounts of money, as does this industry. The side effects of organized crime are killings and deaths, and the side effects are the same in this industry. The mob bribes politicians and others, and so does the drug industry—which has been proven in many different cases. You could go though a 10-point list discussing similarities between the two. The difference is, all these people in the drug industry look upon themselves—well, I’d say 99 percent, anyway—look upon themselves as law-abiding citizens, not as citizens who would ever rob a bank. Not as citizens who would ever go out and shoplift. And the individuals who run these companies would probably not do such things. However, when they get together as a group and manage these corporations, something seems to happen. Just look at all of these billion-dollar fines—Schering Plough, I think is in the lead now with $1.2 or $1.3 billion in fines; and number two is Bristol-Myers Squibb. It’s pretty scary that they’re committing crimes that cause [the government] to levy those enormous amounts of fines against them. So there’s something that happens to otherwise good citizens when they are part of a corporation. It’s almost like when you have war atrocities; people do things they don’t think they’re capable of. When you’re in a group, people can do things they otherwise wouldn’t, because the group can validate what you’re doing as okay.
I’ve only worked in the drug industry so I don’t know about the others. But it’s been the drug industry and the defense industry that have been getting hit with the most fines. But it is mainly the drug industry today. I think there are so many things one could do wrong—opportunities for one to cheat—in the drug industry. You know, if you build a car and you cut corners, you’re going to have a bad-quality car and the Japanese are going to take away your market. But in the drug industry, that’s not how it works. You get a situation like the ENHANCE trial with Schering Plough [The ENHANCE trial was supposed to show that Schering Plough’s cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin, which is made up of both Zocor and Zetia, was better at reducing plaque in the arteries than Zetia alone. But, after an infamous two-year delay, the results ended up showing just the opposite]. The only thing that happened there was that Fred Hassan [CEO of Schering Plough] made a $13 million bonus that he wouldn’t have received if he released the data earlier. So, for the individual managers, there is very little downside to cheating.
Clearly, the drug industry doesn’t want to kill people. But at the same time, I’m not sure if it’s always completely unintentional. Yeah, they don’t want to kill people because it’s bad for business, right. But if you look at a number of these cases where people inside the company knew they had problems. If you look at Merck with Vioxx, for example; if you look at Bayer and the lipid-lowering drug they had that caused liver failure, Baycol. Those guys knew that these drugs were causing major problems (deaths). And they knew these problems resulted in serious side effects, including death. Yet they kept on selling the drugs. So is that intentional or not?
It is unnerving, especially considering how important the industry is. You look at how these companies have behaved. Usually they transform to do whatever is best for the company. The chemical company that made the poison gas used in the concentration chambers, Zyklon B, became a drug company. They are now trying to disavow that as part of their heritage. IG Farben was the company. And one of their subsidiaries became a couple of the German drug companies—Bayer and some others. They now claim that they weren’t actually the legal entity, so there is debate over it, but I believe they paid some money to the victims. So most of these companies are going to do whatever it takes to survive under their current political management: If it’s democracy fine; if it’s not democracy, they’re going to play along. It’s very amoral.
We have to recognize that these big companies are all building small paramilitary organizations inside the companies that answer to no one except the company itself.
Perhaps fifty years from now this system will simply come crashing down under its own weight. But considering the money that people can make here—from doctors to insurance companies to HMOs to hospitals—the way the political system works here, these groups have so much power, it’s going to be a very hard system to change.”
HEALTH REPORTER
Heart patients on a popular combination of high blood pressure drugs have an increased risk of heart attacks and other ailments from the coupled medications and should see their doctor as soon as possible, new guidelines released today by the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation say.
Taking it’s cue from a massive study released last year, the foundation recommendations should all but eliminate the practice of prescribing so called ACE Inhibitors and ARBs together, organization officials say.
“When you put the two drugs together, you don’t get a synergy of effect, all you do is get the side effects of both adding up,” says Dr. Sheldon Tobe, a foundation spokesperson.
“So there’s a doubling up of the side effects as opposed to a doubling up of the benefits,” Tobe says.
The new guidelines were based in large part on a massive international study, released last spring, which looked at nearly 26,000 patients and tested the effectiveness of the two drugs separately and together.
Regards,
April 14th, 2011 at 12:46 am
Dear Sir/Madam,
700,000 people, mostly children, end up in ER every year in US alone for pharmaceutical drug poisoning.
Besides motor vehicle accidents, the second leading cause of injury death in the US is drug-related poisoning, according to a new study published in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. The study indicates that nearly 700,000 people end up in emergency rooms (ER) every year from pharmaceutical drug poisoning — and most of these visits involve young children.
Roughly 28,000 people die every year due to drug-related poisoning, and the highest poisoning rates are among children under five years of age. Forty-three percent of all these poisonings are caused by antidepressant drugs and common painkillers, many of which are available without a prescription. And all this death occurs under the watch of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) are together participating in Poison Prevention Week, an awareness campaign designed to warn the public about the poisons that lurk in their homes — which apparently is dominated primarily by pharmaceutical drugs.
According to a recent press release, the groups are asking the US Congress to continue funding the 57 poison control centers across the US that assist the public with poison emergencies. The cost of funding these centers is more then $29 million a year, which of course comes from taxpayers.
“People are abusing prescription drugs and over-the-counter drugs, and it’s a serious and growing problem,” said Dr. Sandra Schneider, president of ACEP. “Very young children had the highest rate of unintentional drug poisoning, which is a wake-up call for parents to make sure their medicines are out of reach.”
Besides the millions spent every year operating the poison control centers, the costs associated with the hundreds of thousands of drug-related ER visits is even more astronomical, topping $1.4 billion in 2007. Such a figure makes sense to anyone who has ever been to the ER and actually seen the final bill — a single visit can literally cost thousands of dollars.
To sum things up, the actually yearly cost of FDA-approved drugs to society is almost 700,000 ER visits, 28,000 deaths, and roughly $1.5 billion. And the FDA really could not care less, as the agency seems to spend most of its time censoring the truth about medicinal foods and herbs, raiding family farms, and targeting dietary supplements for elimination.
Drug Companies and Their Unhealthy Influence On Our Lives.
Throughout the history , mankind has been dreaming and searching for a
panacea . What if a miraculous medical breakthrough were to take place
today and an effective method discovered which can make us all
profoundly healthy and robust in our physical constitutions ? It would be
the ultimate nightmare of the big business pharmaceutical industry , and
they would go to any lengths to pull every string they can in to
suppress such a cure-all from becoming public knowledge . Today ,
achieving health and wellbeing of the people is no more the true concern
of the hospitals or the drug companies . They purportedly exist to take
care of people ‘s health , but their real work is geared towards looking
after their selfish financial interests . If people really start becoming
more and more healthy , and it becomes a trend , these giant
pharmaceutical companies can close shop . On the other hand if people
become more anxious and apprehensive about their health , and more sick ,
in a real or imaginary sense , it would mean boom time for the drug
lords . The most important way drug companies strive to realize their
ignoble purposes is by subjecting both consumers and doctors to heavy
marketing campaigns . People in their turn become easy victims to the
such propaganda because of a truly disconcerting lack of education about
health and illness in our society . If we do not deal with this situation
as a society , it can soon escalate into a dangerous crisis , and even
become the undoing of science and progress .
_____________ (g ) Drug companies , Roche and Wyeth , producers of Valium and Ativan
respectively , should be urgently investigated by the DTI and Serious
Fraud Squad , into corporate fraud and corruption (Para 46 ) Roche and
Wyeth should be the subject of Police Authority investigations into
charges of Corporate Manslaughter and other criminal acts (Para 47 .
- House of Commons Health Committee Report , 2005 (180 )
In Ancient Greece , the Hippocratic physicians were rather chary of
drugs . Their mistrust is reflected in the fact that the original meaning
of the word pharmakon referred to magical potions , evil spells , and
poisons . In the Homeric epic of Odyssey , when the witch Circe turns the
companions of Odysseus into swine , she does so making them ingest
pharmakon (Bardes 136 )
For decades now , the big pharma companies have been pulling off a con
job to foist their products on vulnerable consumers . It would seem that
the sole consideration that drives these mega corporations is profit , to
realize which they might not even hesitate to turn people into swine , if
only that could make them buy and gorge on all kinds of pills
indiscriminately .
As patients we look to our doctors for help and without even a second
thought we trust what they have to say . The problem in today ‘s society
is that as consumers we are being blindsided and victimized by the same
people we trust with our lives . Now not only can the big pharmaceutical… Rergards,
April 14th, 2011 at 12:47 am
I did post purposely all that info about drug industry in order to educate / worn SUFFERING INJURED WORLERS as well as General Public as they are the prime “customers and victims “of this industry.
WSiB is “working” very hard to torment Injured Workers (IW) WITH EXCESSIVE / UNNECESARY pharmacological/medical treatments /proceedings while in most cases by it deteriorating conditions of IW (physiologically/ medically /psychologically).
Big Pharma industry does expend their customer base by any means including IW as prime target for all kind of psychiatric /antidepressant / pain killer drugs etc.
IW ARE DOCTOR’S /HOSPITAL’S/ BIG PHARMA’s milk cows for years or even for IW natural life time.
Please refer to earlier entries addressing issues involving Doctors paddling meds not necessarily in to best interest of patients!
Personally I was very negatively affected by such “business relations/practices” by being additionally and excessively treated by most of my Doctors (under total WSiB’s control) with very dangerous drugs which dramatically deteriorated my conditions and as result of it I ended up on ER in the Hospital!
April 14th, 2011 at 1:14 am
Dear Sir/Madam,
For record I want to state, that Apotex’s “witness” was one of the people directly involved in criminal negligence on behalf of the Company during my employment.
On numerous occasions I did approach him in person requesting PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) because I was forced to work directly with very potent actives. Every time he refused to provide me with one (the same way as my other superiors – they use to state, that all critical inventory –actives and other supply are personally ordered by OWNER OF THE COMPANY and he does not have any money for safety items due to pending construction and many legal problems). That was despite his duty as “safety representative” to observe Safety Regulations and protect employees.
Last time it was in 2003 while I was already very sick.
Now again he is not truthful, producing false statements to WSiB on behalf of Company .
Unfortunately “witness” was one of those employees hired by Company with out any expertise in capacity he was meant to perform. He was personally responsible for many equipment failures as well as he personally caused accidents.
On the job he was a hazard to himself and to others. On one occasion, because of his luck of knowledge / neglect he becomes a victim of an accident he created/caused and he was taken in to the hospital from work.
This accident was assisted by Fire Rescue Services (they extracted “witness” from contaminated / not accessible are, Emergency Paramedics and City TV News (which with out any permission / authorization entered Company/ Facility to get this story -while unfolded on the TV News).
At the time there wasn’t present on the duty any Supervisor, neither Manager nor any one who would take charge of the situation.
It is important to notice, that at that time Company did not have any safety / security (which I was proactively trying to get into place in order to make Company safer and to prevent actives from going out in to the black market).
My personal initiatives regarding safety and security of the Plant are documented (we did have many accidents of cross contamination and disappearance of inventory).
After this accident in order to prevent future casualties Company moved “witness” from service of production & packaging equipment in to newly announced phantom “Safety Department” to keep him away from any thing and every thing and to compensate him for suffer so he wouldn’t claim any disabilities (WSiB). He remained on Facility Support Service’s payroll because Safety Dep. Officially did not exist.
Unfortunately he becomes a “safety representative” to sign Documents with out questioning / verifying the status quo.
On daily bases “witness” displayed emotional problems and was involved in road rage which resulted in Highway accident. He left the accident seen and later claimed as of an excuse fear of physical thread from other driver.
At work he proudly stated to pears ( at my presence), that he and the other driver were cutting each other, speeding and verbally abusing each other for miles while swirling all over the highway in heavy traffic..
We did have many employees displaying emotional problems / addictions which were instated in position of power.
Example involves Supervisor – fired from previous job due to alcoholism and mental instability which created big problems at work. At Apotex he did cause a lot of problems, hazards, equipment failures, cross contamination, he altered many Recipes in equipment’s programs etc.
One of FFS’s Managers.
He also was fired from previous job due to mental instability and hazards he created.
At Apotex he was hazard to be around and he did cause many equipment failures and accidents.
Example involves equipment failure due to his activity and as result of it spill of hundreds of liters of toxic liquids / special oils all over two floors etc.
Examples can go on and on:
1. I got massive and unprotected exposure to unidentified product (s ) in / during out of control accident (we did have many accidents) when one of not approved new products proved to be volatile and during process exploded causing inferno, burning/baking for long period of time while releasing toxic fumes and causing collateral damage to equipment and infrastructure. Explosion / fire was not contained in one Room as Company claims.
It significantly damaged infrastructure end equipment on two floors.
Explosion/ fire did cause first face damage and fire (extinguishing of it) did cause second face of damage and contamination of two floors since fire hoses (water) used to extinguish combustion did discharge product from 80 cubic foot (1000 kg) bin on the floor. Fumes contaminated whole area.
Such mess was sitting left in there for period of few days because of Ministry’s of Labour investigation. Ministry did not allow any clean up for number of days. All employees walked all over it (no other way to go due to pending construction) and dispersed it in MFG and PKG areas. (I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW NAME OF THE PRODUCT IF COMPANY PROVIDES ACTUAL NAME. IT WAS A BIG CONCERN THAT MINISTRY of LABOUR WILL DISCOVER THAT THIS PRODUCT WAS PROCESSED WITH OUT REGULATORS PERMISSION/approval). That was one of many products Company processed with out compliance with any regulations and with out providing adequate/any protection for employees. (MINISTRY of LABOUR did not admit to WSiB any accident Investigations).
2. -The Kettle incident was a separate case and did occur on 3rd and 2nd floors (also integrated system extending through two floors).That was also a new not approved product processed on not qualified and not approved equipment.
Mess of two floors was left not cleaned up for few months period, because Company did not have expertise nor any means to deal with product and contaminated equipment (after incident , and after all systems were disabled /down on emergency mode the product solidified as a rock). For many months solidified product remained in/on the equipment and powdered product/ingredients were all over the two floors.
Many times I was forced by Management to go to this area with out any protection to perform work on some pieces of equipment in the system. Our PM System /Schedule were not integrated into/with production schedule.
3.-Other incident occurred on new, huge automated/computerized system (vacuum mixers and Fluid Air equipment) . Company processed not approved products on not qualified equipment and that resulted in melt down / disintegration of all seals and plastic parts etc. and contamination of equipment and area.
We did have on daily bases incidents/accidents and substantial product spills.
In manufacturing area we were encapsulating / compressing/ processing etc. very many products on daily bases (spontaneously /parallel).
On each piece of equipment/system we were running different product.
On regular bases particular machine was changed over to different product/ format in the same day. No Supervision, no Management, no in Process Control, no sanitation of equipment, no Work Orders, no Safety Data , no First Aid supply , no nothing but demolition conditions due to pending massive construction.
Supplied by my former employer (TorPharm/Apotex) to WSiB Safety Data Sheets do not reflect and will not reflect actual list of chemicals, which Company held in stock and used for processing in their Plant.
Many products are under extensive formulation and development stages (in confidentiality).
Due to “FDA APROVED STATUS” of this location/Plant, TorPharm/Apotex processed there products for other Plants (Apotex Group of Companies).
In secrecy we did work on Formulation and Development of almost all key products/brands present on the market (solid dose).
Many products with out any permits or approvals or prior to that.
At nights Company was bringing in to the Plant and processed products not approved for this facility by Regulators.
Company did keep in the warehouse restricted products under specially assigned and misleading names. Many of those products were not included on official Inventory list of a few thousand of chemicals in the warehouse.
As you know, TorPharm/Apotex is a Generic Company and due to the nature of their business (challenging validity of ownership and patents as well as exclusive rights to the products of Brand Names) Apotex will not revel any Safety Data Sheets of products/ chemicals which they worked on due to simple fact, that such admission / disclosure would expose them to the massive legal action by other Pharmaceutical Companies for infringement of Patents / Brands, absence of compliance with Regulations as well as adverse side effects on unprotected employees…
Apotex will conceal and manipulate data and underreport info concerning products.
For many years Company processed, melted / boiled chemicals in hundred of pounds at the time in order to challenge existing /valid Patents of Brand Name’s by process.
Those processes were conducted in /on not approved equipment and in manufacturing area not approved for such operations.
BEYOND ANY DOUBT I WAS MASSIVELLY EXPOSED TO DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES WITH OUT ANY PROTECTION AND THAT THEY CAUSED THE ADVERSE EFECTS AND INJURIES I NOW SUFFER.
All evidence shows that the Corporation deviated from the standard of behavior and that personal injury could have been prevented and that the deviation resulted in my personal injury.
Company, with its mandate to bring relief / help to people suffering from many medical conditions did make me disable (work related medical conditions).
TorPharm/Apotex committed crime against me destroying my health and life by criminal negligence! For very long time they further victimized me denying me my Constitutional Rights to be able to provide for myself. Because of their extended criminal activities I was not able to purchase groceries, medications, to visit Doctors, to pay my bills and I am being repossessed by my creditors.
How come Criminal Corporation managed to delay WSiB’s investigation and submission of documentation which would allow WSiB to process my Claim expeditiously?
After months of Investigation, Criminal Company reluctantly forwarded Products Safety Data Sheets which are useless! It took for them months to manipulate, select and compromise info. This is a joke!
How come WSiB is relaying on falsified Product Safety Data Sheets supplied by a Criminal Company?
How come TorPharm / Apotex was hiding all Product Information (Work Orders, Safety Data Sheets, Inventory Lists etc.) while processing products during my employment?
How come all Production Operators, all in Process Quality Reassurance Employees, all Sanitation Employees, all Supervisors, all Facility Services Employees and all others deserted the Company at the same time (when dangerous products were introduced and Company did not provide base safety measures).
Why for period of years my Department’s Manager and Director refused to enter Manufacturing, Packaging Departments as well as services areas despite of countless cases of urgent need of their participation/input.
Why Superiors refused to reveal names of products we worked on/with??????
Why Company employed individuals with out language knowledge, with out any job security, with out any health insurance trough third Party and rotated them on daily bases WHILE THEY WERE GETTING VERY SICK? It is important to differentiate in between an accident and a crime (criminal, methodical negligence). Torpharm/Apotex got engaged in intentional malicious conduct violating all statutes with a reckless indifference.
They deliberately acted with knowledge of a high degree of probability of serious harm to me and reckless indifference to the consequences of that act.
It acted in the face of a perceived risk that its actions will violate all laws.
We are faced with unethical corporation that engaged in illegal production of prohibited products, violated all rules of the corporate system and in the process sacrificed health of own employees.
As result of Torpharm/Apotex’s negligence (exposure to advanced structural composite materials /chemicals used in the manufacturing processes which have been classified as to have a co- carcinogenic and/or synergistic effect) I AM DISABLE.
Toxic build up of the drugs and/or its metabolites can be fatal.
As we know, all Corporations are required to adhere to certain standards of behaviour.
These standards are design to protect them and others.
Failure to meet these standards can cause unnecessary personal injury and is punishable by law.
TorPharm/Apotex had the legal obligation to behave in a particular manner and had the duty to protect me from on the job harm and personal injury.
The Corporation failed to fulfill this obligation by acting inappropriately and due to legal breech of conduct caused my personal injury.
Company got engaged in intentional malicious conduct violating all statutes with a reckless indifference.
It acted in the face of a perceived risk that its actions will violate all laws.
Company treated me in harsh and humiliating way acting in an especially egregious manner. The evidence proves that alleged facts were true.
Company, with its mandate to bring relief / help to people suffering from many medical conditions did make me disable ( work related medical conditions) limiting my professional and personal life, making challenging my social life and in vicious / malicious manner on on going bases is preventing me from enjoying my Constitutional Right to be able to provide for myself.
The extraordinarily lucrative pharmaceutical industry has long been driven more by profit, power and policy then pills or concern to Health and Safety.
There is much moral posturing in an industry that is only too well aware, that it capitalizes on a captive market of the desperate and the afflicted.
This is a reason why in the name of higher benefit Corporation selected to ignore Health and Safety regulations and adopted an unrelentingly aggressive stance against me while I expressed concerns in area of Health and Safety and quality of the products.
To ask TorPharm/Apotex to supply evidence (Product Safety Data Sheets) and base WSiB’s decision upon this material is like assisting Company in their crimes.
No Justice System is allowing a Criminal to fabricate an alibi/evidence.
Due to such approach by WSiB and some others, TorPharm/Apotex so boldly breaks the Law and flourishes on their path of crime.
Overlooking their activities is like being an accessory to the crimes and this is against Public’s best interest.
That is what Corporation gave to me for 6.5 years of dedicated work.
For very many years I am not able to get any help.
My life is being compromised by delays.
Please assist me with out any further obstacles .
Regards,
April 14th, 2011 at 1:18 am
Re: Apotex‘s witness
Dear Sir/Madam,
For record I want to state, that Apotex’s “witness” was one of the people directly involved in criminal negligence on behalf of the Company during my employment.
Because I was forced to work directly with very potent actives, on numerous occasions I did approach him in person requesting PPE (Personal Protection Equipment). Every time he refused to provide me with one (the same way as my other superiors – they use to state, that all critical inventory –actives and other supply are personally ordered by OWNER OF THE COMPANY and he does not have any money for safety items due to pending construction and many legal problems). That was despite his duty as a “safety representative” to observe Safety Regulations and protect employees.
Last time it was in 2003 while I was already very sick.
Now again he is not truthful, producing false statements to WSiB on behalf of the Company. He is the only employee out of hundreds I worked with remaining with the Company. All others deported in the panic or got sick or god rid off by the Company long time ago. Company got rid off of all remaining employees to avoid Legal /Criminal liabilities due to long term adverse side effects experienced by employees because of unprotected products exposures/contamination.
Unfortunately “witness” was one of those employees hired by Company with out any expertise in capacity he was meant to perform. He was personally responsible for many equipment failures as well as he personally caused accidents.
On the job he was a hazard to himself and to others. On one occasion, because of his luck of knowledge / neglect he becomes a victim of an accident he created/caused and he was taken in to the hospital from work.
This accident was assisted by Fire Rescue Services (they extracted “witness” from contaminated / not accessible are, Emergency Paramedics and reported by City TV News (which with out any permission / authorization entered Company/ Facility to get this story -while unfolded on the TV News).
At the time there wasn’t present on the duty any Supervisor, neither Manager nor any one who would take charge of the situation.
It is important to notice, that at that time Company did not have any safety / security (which I was proactively trying to get into place in order to make Company safer and to prevent actives from going out in to the black market).
My personal initiatives regarding safety and security of the Plant are documented (we did have many accidents of cross contamination and disappearance of inventory).
After this accident in order to prevent future casualties Company moved “witness” from service of production & packaging equipment in to newly announced phantom “Safety Department” to keep him away from any thing and every thing and to compensate him for suffer so he wouldn’t claim any disabilities (WSiB). He remained on Facility Support Service’s payroll because Safety Dep. Officially did not exist.
Unfortunately he becomes a “safety representative” to sign Documents with out questioning / verifying the status quo.
On daily bases “witness” displayed emotional problems and was involved in road rage which resulted in Highway accident. He left the accident seen and later claimed as of an excuse fear of physical thread from other driver.
At work he proudly stated to pears ( at my presence), that he and the other driver were cutting each other, speeding and verbally abusing each other for miles while swirling all over the highway in heavy traffic..
Unfortunately we did have many employees which were instated in position of power displaying emotional problems / addictions.
Examples involve but not limited to a Supervisor – fired from previous job due to alcoholism and mental instability/disturbance which created big problems at work. At work frequently he was under alcohol influence. Alcohol and unprotected exposures to mixtures of very dangerous actives made him very irrational /oblivious of danger / oblivious of any and all Regulations. At Apotex he did cause a lot of problems, hazards, equipment failures, cross contamination; he altered many Recipes in equipment’s programs etc.
One (but not limited to) of FFS’s Managers.
He also was fired from previous job due to mental instability/disturbance/irrationality etc. and hazards he created.
At Apotex he was hazard to be around and he did cause many equipment failures and accidents.
Example involves equipment failure due to his activity and as result of it spill of hundreds of liters of toxic liquids / special oils all over two floors (massive) etc.
Reportedly on Department’s meetings another Supervisor in order to avoid employee’s questions about unknown and very dangerous products was regularly playing sex movies involving animals. He was stating that his children are also involved in sex with animals. Often that was done at the presence of female HR Representative.
On one occasion under employees pressure Company invited Speaker from Occupational Health Clinic in Hamilton to address some of employees concerns.
Right after the Representative stated that Company is liable for some urgent issues the President terminated his Lecture and kicked him out of the Company.
Examples can go on and on:
1. I got massive and unprotected exposure to unidentified product (s ) in / during out of control accident (we did have many accidents) when one of not approved new products proved to be volatile and during process exploded causing inferno, burning/baking for long period of time while releasing toxic fumes and causing collateral damage to equipment and infrastructure. Explosion / fire were not contained in one Room as Company claims.
It significantly damaged infrastructure end equipment on two floors.
Explosion/ fire did cause first face damage and fire (extinguishing of it) did cause second face of damage and contamination of two floors since fire hoses (water) used to extinguish combustion did discharge product from 80 cubic foot (1000 kg) bin on the floor. Fumes contaminated whole area.
Such mess was sitting left in there for period of few days because of apparent Ministry’s of Labour investigation. Apparently (that is what I was told by my Manager) Ministry did not allow any clean up for number of days. All employees walked all over it (no other way to go due to pending construction) and dispersed it in MFG and PKG areas. (I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW NAME OF THE PRODUCT IF COMPANY PROVIDES ACTUAL NAME. IT WAS A BIG CONCERN THAT MINISTRY of LABOUR WILL DISCOVER THAT THIS PRODUCT WAS PROCESSED WITH OUT REGULATORS PERMISSION/approval). That was one of many products Company processed with out compliance with any regulations and with out providing adequate/any protection for employees. (MINISTRY of LABOUR did not admit to WSiB any accident ‘s Investigations). The fumes/toxic smog made me and all others struggle to take air and I could not make my lungs to move, it made every nerve and cell within me screaming … and I experience “electrical-jolt” type sensations throughout my entire body…, the nausea I experienced was so terrible that I felt as if I could go on throwing up for hours, my brain felt as if it was “swimming” inside of my skull…, my heart fluttered – I felt as if at any moment, my heart will explode and I will drop dead with a heart attack. ………, made my dizziness, drowsiness and general “mental fog” out of control. It was getting so bad that I thought about being in “ twightlight zone”., made me like being floating in my surroundings, made me feel very lethargic, made me sweating profusely, blurred my vision, prompted muscle cramps and stomach cramps, numbness, trembling, reduced my motor skills, created big difficulty walking or talking and much much more of horrifying sensations.
2. Separate accident involving huge jacketed Kettle with humongous mixer on the bridge (part of integrated – two Floors system -3rd and 2nd floors). That was also a new not approved product processed on not qualified /validated equipment. Mixer’s shaft and paddles were twisted like a paper toys ripping off mechanical/structural devices on the Kettle’s rim and lid etc.
Mess of two floors was left not cleaned up for few months period, because Company did not have expertise nor any means to deal with product and contaminated equipment (after incident , and after all systems were disabled /down on emergency mode the product solidified as a rock). For many months solidified product remained in/on the equipment and powdered product/ingredients were all over the two floors.
Many times I was forced by Management to go to this area with out any protection to perform work on some pieces of equipment in the system. Our PM System /Schedule were not integrated into/with production schedule.
3.-Another accident occurred on new, huge automated/computerized system (vacuum mixers and Fluid Air equipment – not qualified / calibrated equipment). Number of times during attempts to process batches of not approved, VERY DANGEROUS PRODUCTS the system was detecting contamination and was automatically shutting down the process, each time destroying very expensive batch. After numerous failures Company in premeditated manner disabled electronic SAFETY SYSTEM –WHICH SUPOSE TO PROTECT/PREVENT CONTAMINATION and processed number of batches and that resulted in melt down / disintegration of all seals and plastic parts etc. and contamination of Personnel, equipment and area..
We did have on daily bases incidents/accidents, equipment failures and substantial product spills.
In manufacturing area we were encapsulating / compressing/ processing etc. very many products on daily bases (spontaneously /parallel).
On each piece of equipment/system we were running different product.
On regular bases particular machine was changed over to different product/ format in the same day. No Supervision, no Management, no in Process Control, no sanitation of equipment, no Work Orders, no Safety Data , no First Aid supply , no nothing but demolition conditions due to pending massive construction.
Supplied by my former employer (TorPharm/Apotex) to WSiB Safety Data Sheets do not reflect and will not reflect actual list of chemicals, which Company held in stock and used for processing in their Plant.
Many products were under extensive formulation and development stages (in confidentiality).
Due to “FDA APROVED STATUS” of this location/Plant, TorPharm/Apotex processed there products for other Plants (Apotex Group of Companies).
In secrecy we did work on Formulation and Development of almost all key products/brands present on the market (solid dose).
Many products with out any permits or approvals or prior to that.
At nights Company was bringing in to the Plant and processed products not approved for this facility by Regulators.
Company did keep in the warehouse restricted products under specially assigned and misleading names. Many of those products were not included on official Inventory list of a few thousand of chemicals in the warehouse.
As you know, TorPharm/Apotex is a Generic Company and due to the nature of their business (challenging validity of ownership and patents as well as exclusive rights to the products of Brand Names) Apotex will not revel any Safety Data Sheets of products/ chemicals which they worked on due to simple fact, that such admission / disclosure would expose them to the massive legal action by other Pharmaceutical Companies for infringement of Patents / Brands, absence of compliance with Regulations as well as adverse side effects on unprotected employees…
Apotex will conceal and manipulate data and underreport info concerning products.
For many years Company processed, melted / boiled chemicals in hundred of pounds at the time in order to challenge existing /valid Patents of Brand Name’s by process.
Those processes were conducted in /on not approved equipment and in manufacturing area not approved for such operations.
BEYOND ANY DOUBT I WAS MASSIVELLY EXPOSED TO DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES WITH OUT ANY PROTECTION AND THAT THEY CAUSED THE ADVERSE EFECTS AND INJURIES I NOW SUFFER.
All evidence shows that the Corporation deviated from the standard of behavior and that personal injury could have been prevented and that the deviation resulted in my personal injury.
Company, with its mandate to bring relief / help to people suffering from many medical conditions did make me disable (work related medical conditions).
TorPharm/Apotex committed crime against me destroying my health and life by criminal negligence! For very long time they further victimized me denying me my Constitutional Rights to be able to provide for myself and medical help. Because of their extended criminal activities I was/am not able to purchase groceries, medications, to visit Doctors, to pay my bills and I am being repossessed by my creditors.
How come Criminal Corporation managed to delay WSiB’s investigation and submission of documentation which would allow WSiB to process my Claim expeditiously?
After months of Investigation, Criminal Company reluctantly forwarded Products Safety Data Sheets which are useless! It took for them months to manipulate, select and compromise info. This is a joke!
How come WSiB is relaying on falsified Product Safety Data Sheets supplied by a Criminal Company?
How come TorPharm / Apotex was hiding all Product Information (Work Orders, Safety Data Sheets, Inventory Lists etc.) while processing products during my employment?
How come all Production Operators, all in Process Quality Reassurance Employees, all Sanitation Employees, all Supervisors, all Facility Services Employees and all others deserted the Company at the same time (when dangerous products were introduced and Company did not provide base safety measures).
Why for period of years my Department’s Manager and Director refused to enter Manufacturing, Packaging Departments as well as services areas despite of countless cases of urgent need of their participation/input.
Why Superiors refused to reveal names of products we worked on/with??????
Why Company employed individuals with out language knowledge, with out any job security, with out any health insurance trough third Party and rotated them on daily bases WHILE THEY WERE GETTING VERY SICK? It is important to differentiate in between an accident and a crime (criminal, methodical negligence). Torpharm/Apotex got engaged in intentional malicious conduct violating all statutes with a reckless indifference.
They deliberately acted with knowledge of a high degree of probability of serious harm to me and reckless indifference to the consequences of that act.
It acted in the face of a perceived risk that its actions will violate all laws.
We are faced with unethical corporation that engaged in illegal production of prohibited products, violated all rules of the corporate system and in the process sacrificed health of own employees.
As result of Torpharm/Apotex’s negligence (exposure to advanced structural composite materials /chemicals used in the manufacturing processes which have been classified as to have a co- carcinogenic and/or synergistic effect) I AM DISABLE.
Toxic build up of the drugs and/or its metabolites can be fatal.
As we know, all Corporations are required to adhere to certain standards of behavior.
These standards are design to protect them and others.
Failure to meet these standards can cause unnecessary personal injury and is punishable by law.
TorPharm/Apotex had the legal obligation to behave in a particular manner and had the duty to protect me from on the job harm and personal injury.
The Corporation failed to fulfill this obligation by acting inappropriately and due to legal breech of conduct caused my personal injury.
Company got engaged in intentional malicious conduct violating all statutes with a reckless indifference.
It acted in the face of a perceived risk that its actions will violate all laws.
Company treated me in harsh and humiliating way acting in an especially egregious manner. The evidence proves that alleged facts were true.
Company, with its mandate to bring relief / help to people suffering from many medical conditions did make me disable ( work related medical conditions) limiting my professional and personal life, making challenging my social life and in vicious / malicious manner on on going bases is preventing me from enjoying my Constitutional Right to be able to provide for myself.
The extraordinarily lucrative pharmaceutical industry has long been driven more by profit, power and policy then pills or concern to Health and Safety.
There is much moral posturing in an industry that is only too well aware, that it capitalizes on a captive market of the desperate and the afflicted.
This is a reason why in the name of higher benefit Corporation selected to ignore Health and Safety regulations and adopted an unrelentingly aggressive stance against me while I expressed concerns in area of Health and Safety and quality of the products.
To ask TorPharm/Apotex to supply evidence (Product Safety Data Sheets) and base WSiB’s decision upon this material is like assisting Company in their crimes.
No Justice System is allowing a Criminal to fabricate an alibi/evidence.
Due to such approach by WSiB and some others, TorPharm/Apotex so boldly breaks the Law and flourishes on their path of crime.
Overlooking their activities is like being an accessory to the crimes and this is against Public’s best interest.
That is what Corporation gave to me for 6.5 years of dedicated work.
For very many years I am not able to get any help.
My life is being compromised by delays.
Please assist me with out any further obstacles.
Regards,
April 14th, 2011 at 1:21 am
SAMPLE
Dear Sir / Madam,
I apology for grammar of this entry, but I am struggling to focus and to see as well as with my other medical problems.
To understand the scope of what I am stating it is important to realize the size of this large Facility in question (Apotex Etobicoke), number of employees on that particular location at any given time (almost eight hundred + people – to a thousand in pick period) ON THE BEGINNING of the transformation / construction period in which Company underwent with out limiting manufacturing yields and on contrary continuously adding up dozens of new products. Shortly after criminal termination of a sick and disabled employee Company managed to locate ONLY ONE PERSON WHO “WORKED WITH ME” .That person becomes Company’s “criminally motivated” witness).
New products were very potent and demanded isolation areas with electronic alarm systems and dedicated equipment/infrastructure /separate buildings for sole production of particular products as well as special GMP’s/SOP’s. All of that was taking place during 6.5 years of my dedicated employment.
PRODUCTS WERE SO POTENT, THAT I AND OTHERS WHILE ENTERING PROCESS /PRODUCTION ROOMS, WITH FIRST AIR INTAKE IN TO THE LUNGS WERE EXPERIENCING HORIFYING PAIN IN RESPIRATORY PASSAGES (LIKE ONE WOULD INHALL FIRE AND ACID). On contact with product skin cells/ lymphatic vessels ( structures that drain lymph) were simply exploding causing horrifying pain and sores oozing plasma ( the clear, yellowish fluid containing lymphocytes – white blood cells that fight disease) from the tissues , hands, lips, inside of mouth/ over the surface of the mouth and tongue, nose, digestive system, stomach, rectum/ anus, compromising function of the lungs- respiratory muscles, blood vessels, lymphatic system , nerves and all around whole body etc.). The tongue was burned / scalded, strange tastes / sensations developing. Developing burning mouth syndrome caused by nerve problems. Often small, painful ulcers/ sores appeared on the tongue / mouth, disabling salivary glands etc. Nerves that help detect and transmit signals to the brain were getting severely compromised. At the same time all of it was suppressing immune system and inducing many, many more horrifying adverse long term symptoms.
In seconds nothing did matter any more.
We were entering twilight zone /total obliviousness and sensation of flotation /levitation, physical /mental struggle/ fog, breathlessness etc.
Total obliviousness to danger and by many Operators terrifying rages of aggression and many other medical/neurological problems etc.
At the time, when Apotex announced (year 1998) commencement of very significant construction /expansion, Company had in production very large inventory of sophisticated peaces equipment. After construction started all of it become invalidated with severely compromised operational capacity. On regular bases I was ordered personally (I was the only one permanent employee ) by management to get in to interior of those process units during trouble shooting while in process or shortly after while equipment was with substantial products deposits left inside ( no Personnel to clean up/sanitize).
I was very seldom told what product was processed and more often I was lied to about name /nature of the products.
While inside I was discovering in spot light a clouds of air born product micro crystals – like fiber glass and/or very fine powder – like a talc.
Often it was too late to react with Operators horse playing or on the floor praying while high on actives and frequently urinating into floor drains in production Rooms – also during production runs).
To give an idea about production capacity I will provide an example of product named Paxil (paroxetine chydrohloride). NOT THE DEDLIEST ONE-RATHER MILD IN COMPERITION WITH OTHER MATERIALS.
We produced / manufactured (MFG) and packaged (PKG) 12 MILION + DOSAGES OF IT EVERY 24 HOURS ALONE (the process was like TORA BORA PRODUCTION OF HEROINE) – operators with out any protection dispensing active from paper bags / corrugated drums by hand directly into the Kettle / jacketed steam heated vessel designed for food processing where active was boiled /baked with out any ventilation- disabled air handling systems, with out monitoring/compliance to spec/GMP/SOP etc. The fumes were accumulating in the Room and all over the entire Floor. Powdered paroxetine chydrohloride was all over the floors in Process Room and outside, blending up in to deadly compounds with massive deposits of other discarded products on the floors. Liquidized product (the solution was freed from visible particles) was discharged into metal trays where it solidified in to bricks form and subsequently was reduced in to smaller chunks by Operators sitting on the floor and hammering it in to smaller chunks by hand/ maintenance hummers. Smaller chunks were pulverized in CO- MILLS into small /micro “pellets/granules). In such format pellets/granules/ (an “active” substance) were appearing and behaving as waxy small particles. They were dispensed and blended with excipients in 80 cu/foot bins (1000kg). The “active” never bonded with excipients and right after blending process it was starting to gravitationally separate from excipients and was accumulating at the bottom of the bin.
Such separation created a lot of problems during dispensing in to tablet presses and during compression process.
After compression, half of the batch contained tablets compressed solemnly out of active ingredient and the other half of the batch with out any at all. Think about needy /sick patients taking such product.
Produced tablets on regular bases contained array of other contaminants.
After announcement of expansion and introduction of new /deadly products most employees from all Departments left the company (did not take long before ALL left). At the same time I inquired with my Department’s Director about my future role and my protection during that period of expansion (it was a difficult decision for me to make, because of my age).
I was informed, that I will have to work with out any supervision / management (especially on night shifts) and I was reassured, that I will be provided with all high tech safety equipment I will need. Shortly after Department’s Director was fired for taking bribes from Contractors and for collapsing number of projects it turned out, that neither I NOR MAJORITY OF OPERATORS DID NOT GET ANY SAFETY EQUIPMEENT AT ALL (PPE). All collective safety equipment become invalidated/ non operational. Company concealed names of processed products, did not display Work Orders or Safety Data Information.
Facility Services Supervisor was supplied with full body rubber uniform and air tanks – (like for bio- hazards) just to change filters on air handling units (which frequently were stopping to work and disengaging LARGE waste product collection drums , dropping them on to the Floor, discharging on the Floor waste quantity of collected compounds from all Facility/production Rooms –no one to clean), while I and all temporary Operators and other Personnel worked long shifts (10-14 hours forced by Company) every day with those products with out any protection at all AND I was DEALING WITH OUT OF CONTROL DAILY PRODUCTS SPEALS.
Later on turned out, that he (the Supervisor in question) was in the loop of people aware/informed by Company (by necessity) about new products and he demanded adequate protection for him self.
Company could not lie to him because he was the one selected by Company (and contrary to many others) he agreed to actively participate in criminal acts on behalf of the Company. He was on regular bases (nights) demolishing internal walls with out any permits (in process Rooms) during production runs, he was disabling safety alarms for detection of contamination of Personnel and manufacturing/packaging/Office areas, he was dumping huge volumes of very toxic and untreated production waste waters directly in to the city’s system / Lake Ontario, he was “containing evidence of explosions and blow ups of explosion panels on the roof of Facility during runs of validation batches and contamination of company’s grounds and area and he did many, many more criminal acts on behalf of the Apotex.
Apotex started to produce new lethal products in not up graded and not approved / validated by Regulators old facility. Construction invalidated /DISABLED ALL EQUIPMENT /SERVICES AND PRODUCTS STARTED TO SHOW UP ON DESKS OF OFFICE EMPLOYEES which all quickly left the Company in fear.
Due to lack of any Personnel, Apotex started to employ only temporary people (almost solemnly new comers in to Canada from Afghanistan and Pakistan desperate for work and earnings) with out language skills, with out pharmaceutical/ technical EXPERIENCE, with out any awareness of safety equipment. All of them were getting valiantly sick and Apotex rotated them on daily bases. People were displaying horrifying symptoms of products adverse side / overdose effects, many were getting heart attacks, respiratory problems, skin conditions, many were getting swollen (popping up like victims of deep sea diving not observing decompression ) and many many more very disturbing medical conditions including psychiatric disorders (profound neurological problems).Sample-one of my co-workers got heart palpitations at work. He was taken by his wife from work in to Hospital. In the Hospital he collapsed. Second time he was taken from work to his family Doctor where he collapsed at Doctor’s Office with hearth problems and he was taken on emergence in to the hospital by ambulance. (Company managed to destroy all records of this incident.). Fortunately all other record of that incident survived-including blood work and some other tests done by Doctor.
Running of unknown products by temporary Operators with out any idea of tasks they suppose to perform and due to equipment serviced by Mechanics with out any experience (for example – landscapers) did cause extensive damage to machines putting Operators and other Personnel at grave Safety risk and causing very substantial /uncontrolled product discharge contaminating area and all Personnel. On daily bases we did have such occurrences as machines were not calibrated/ or were invalidated/ used for not approved products with wrong Recipes etc. Often resulted in all of the machines were regularly and substantially damaged and new tooling for unknown product destroyed.
Like on the battle field with very potent actives all over the floors, equipment and Personnel with out any Personal Protection Equipment and with all systems invalidated / dysfunctional due to pending construction and unauthorized /unconscious activities.
For many years whole Manufacturing/Packaging / Company looked like /as Nazi gas chambers under going some horrifying experiments where people/ human beings were just a lab / experiments objects.
For 6.5 years of very dedicated , loyal, productive work for Apotex (documented) , Company victimized me , destroyed my health, life, dreams, deprived me of all means of sustaining myself, deprived me of medical help, Constitutional and Law protection and continues to torture me destroying all my attempts to sustain myself during another 6 years after termination and pending.
April 14th, 2011 at 1:23 am
SAMPLE
For many years I was responsible for ALL DISCHARGE STATIONS AS WELL AS FOR EVERY THING ELSE IN PKG & MFG from technical point of view (what does not limit my contributions in all other aspects/areas of the business).
We had many Discharge Stations.
All of them were negatively affected by pending construction, absence of spare parts, limited /with out experience Personnel, production of NEW PRODUCTS etc.
This time I want to focus your attention on Discharge Stations addressed in attached e-mail to Manager and opinionated by one of new MFG Supervisors (shortly after / promptly left the Company), especially from New Products perspective.
New products were very, very potent, under formulated with no proper in selection or quality ingredients, of wrong moisture , of wrong lubrication/viscosity, of problematic crystal structure / specific weight as well as due to many more problems / factors etc.
All of this while added up to compromised equipment, contributed to problems with gravitational discharge of those products from Gallay Bins installed on upper Floor and down trough docking chute and down the PVC lay flat in to the hoppers and in to feed frames and further in to the tooling in process compartments.
All those problems forced Company to have an Operator standing over each open/ unsealed Bin containing restricted active (in clearance of 2 fit in between ceiling with long S.S. rod inserted in to the Bin and working /pushing the product down the butter fly valve out of the bin in to the chute.
Often/usually the BIN had to be raised up off the station and docking chute disengaged in order to get the product moving.
Often/usually the Operator was getting very tired and high on the product rupturing the PVC sleeve in the process of pushing the product. Often/usually disengaged chute dropped out of control or the PVC sleeve GOT pinched on the hopper prompting massive and uncontrolled products discharge etc.
Often/ usually product got packed up /compressed inside of the Bin or inside of feed frames and had to be manually removed during process by Operators with out any protection.
ALL OF THESE AND MANY MORE OBSTACLES CONTRIBUTED TO CONSTANT UNCONTROLLED / MASSIVE PRODUCT DISCHARGES ON THE PERSONNEL, EQUIPMENT, FLOORS CAUSING DAILY MULTI PRODUCT CONTAMINATION/ CROSS CONTAMINATION AND ADVERSE SIDE EFFECTS ON PERSONNEL.
While on daily bases we did process very many products parallel on all peaces of equipment , very many of them had to be simply scooped by hand all shift long, causing direct exposures to all personnel (very adverse side effects) and gross contamination .
Most of the “bad” products Company processed on the night shifts, often bringing products from other Facilities and removing / shipping them promptly out in the morning.
Operators/Personnel did not have protective glasses, gloves , uniforms and any thing else.
No GMP, no SOP, no SAFETY:
•FALSIFICATION OF CALIBRATION AND PRODUCTION DOCUMENTATION.
•CROSS CONTAMINATION OF THE PRODUCTS ( use of dedicated equipment and direct product contact parts ) FOR MULTI PRODUCT PRODUCTION.
•TEMPERING WITH NEW PRODUCTS, MANUAL PRODUCTION OF SAMPLES FOR FDA SUBMISSION.
•ALTERING PROCESSES (manual runs of the equipment or subassemblies, recipes are not executed by PLC and installed /down loaded programs/software) BUT BY SHORT WIRING.
•EQUIPMENT OPERATED BY CONTRACT OPERATORS WITH OUT EXPERIENCE AND WITH OUT ANY SUPERVISION (CROSS CONTAMINATING PRODUCTS AND THEMSELVES), with out in process quality control.
•DUE TO CONSTRUCTION / STRICT CONFIDENTIALITY ALL SAFETY DATA SHITS WERE REMOVED FROM ALL LOCATIONS.
•WORK ORDERS NOT POSTED ON THE DOORS OR NEXT TO OF PRODUCTION ROOMS.
•OPERATORS AND MOST MECHANICS ARE KEPT IN THE DARK IN REGARD TO THE NATURE OF THE PRODUCT THEY PROCESS.
•DUE TO FACT , THAT PEOPLE/EMPLOYEES DID NOT WANT TO WORK WITH NEW /DANGEROUS PRODUCTS AND MANY OF THEM LEFT, DUE TO ABSENCE OF PERMITS , LEGAL ISSUES etc. ,COMPANY STARTED TO WITHHOLD INFO ABOUT PROCESSED PRODUCTS.
•IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC ACTIVE INGREDIENTS NOT INSPECTED/TESTED PRIOR TO PROCESSES.
•IMPORTED FROM ASIA PRODUCTS ARE REWORKED AND REPROCESSED TO DIFFERENT “OWN” FORMATS.
•CONTAMINATED PRODUCTS ARE COATED IN ORDER TO CONCEAL CONTAMINATION.
•DEDICATED PROCESS EQUIPMENT NOT SANITIZED AND USED FOR MULTI PRODUCTS.
On one circumstance on night shift I was called to attend emergency situation in one of the process Rooms.
As soon I arrived I noticed an Operator unconscious on the floor.
When I pulled him out of the Process Room (the rooms looked as Nazi gas chambers) by the legs he was disposed off by his follow Taliban Operators. Apotex selected to employ Taliban/ Alquida, facilitated and nurtured their culture in the facility (organized pray rooms etc.).
Apotex did allow Taliban / Alquida to organize and work with out any restrictions / supervision with highly potent controlled substances / narcotics (no production supervision of any kind, no in process quality control of any kind, no quality control of incoming materials of any kind, no adequate sanitation of equipment/product holding bins etc.) Dedicated equipment used for multi products. Apotex was exterminating employees of Taliban / Alquida orientation by not providing them with any product info and personal protection. That promoted products induced violence at work / antidepressant nightmares. I was physically and verbally attacked many times at work / in Facility) by Operators high on actives. Taliban did cause my right hand severe injury and time off work in 2001. As always Company did not report it to WSiB.
I believe that drugs produced during some periods of my employment killed more people world wide then military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan combined.
Regards,
April 14th, 2011 at 1:32 am
Dear Sir/Madam,
SAMPLE
Work was challenging and satisfying.
Two years in to my employment Company started to expend very rapidly.
Expenditure of the infrastructure, at the same time processing/pursuing approval of many new products for US market and big legal problems with brand name companies over ending patents and rights to ownership, manufacture and market of some products effected directly and very negatively internal situation within Company, making work unpleasant and on daily bases hazardous. Company under immense pressure got in to problems on all fronts and started to fight for its very survival. President of the Company and Executive Group imposed strict confidentiality (documented) on every thing what was going on with in Company.
On daily bases this situation/request created communication difficulties (documented) among people and Departments.
Luck of communication and accountability created fertile environment for many individuals rushing to take advantage of opportunities and engage in unlawful activities and profiteering (documented).
Strict confidentiality leaded to purchases of process equipment which was not designed to handle highly potent active ingredients (products).
It become routine, that by choice Company started to instate in position of power individuals with out any pharmaceutical experience, with out basic knowledge of principles governing functions with in pharmaceutical industry/capacity (documented).
Often individuals in charge of HR and production processes where arrogant, ignorant, in conflict of interest and dangerous in their decisions/actions (documented).
Safety , GMP/SOP wasn’t a priority any more (documented).
Chase after business, economical and legal issues was on the forefront.
For me and many other employees it becomes matter of survival to act with in and try to reinforce compliance / enforcement of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and its regulations (documented).
My former Employer was a work place with out Collective Agreement (documented).
Every time I raised IN OPEN MANNER safety, conflict of interest or product quality issues individuals in charge of me (with participation of upper management) did threaten, disrespect, intimidate, expose to active product as punishment and at the end dismiss me in very unprofessional/deceiving manner (documented).
For 6.5 years I worked with active ingredients not protected by any safety equipment (documented).
On regular bases I was requesting issuance of such protection and for so long my requests where neglected (documented) . Once I was enrolled in training session for respiratory protection, but I never had any hardware issued (documented).
New products were so potent that latex/rubber gloves where dissolving almost on contact and product use to create horribly painful sores (documented). Many operators worked with those products with out adequate protection and often with out any at all (night shifts).
Process equipment was commissioned in Europe with out reviling recipe/ chemical composition of the product they suppose to process (documented) .
As result of it purchased equipment was received and installed, IQ (Installation Qualification) was executed, but due to very potent nature of the product OQ (Operational Qualification) was felling (documented). Every thing what was not out of SS (Stainless Still) or glass the product was dissolving in the process. Every attempt to produce experimental batches for FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and batches to secure Launch Quantities were failing.
Every attempt to produce ended up with mechanical damage to the equipment, contaminating Isolation Area and Operators. Shortly before Christmas time 2003 I was ordered by management (– that was direct order of Department’s Manager and Department’s Director) to go and correct mechanical problems on said equipment in isolation area (documented).
Damage occurred during production run on equipment which did not pass OQ (Operational Qualification).
Every time butch of new products was processed, equipment was automatically shutting down during process (destroying expensive batch) because electronic safety system was detecting contamination of manufacturing area exposing operators to the dangerous product.
This time in desperate attempt to produce quantities Company decided to disable electronic safety / warning systems and despite contamination produced few butches.
Regards,
April 14th, 2011 at 1:33 am
SAMPLE
Due to absence of any Personal Protection Equipment , collective Protection Systems (invalidated/non functional due to pending construction .Due to absence of any at all FIRST Aid Supplies in Facility I distributed by a hand (at that time as at many other times Company’s server did not work so I could not send any e-mails) a Memo/e-mail to all effected (Operators / Management) offering supply of all needed materials on my own for Operators working on my night shifts and I realized / did so for long period of time (documented). . I wanted to prevent Operators suffer, equipment failures and products contamination (documented)..
Operators on my shift (nights) in majority (99%) were new /temporary employees (very new in to Canada from Afghanistan and Pakistan with out any personal resources desperately trying to make some money).
Those people with out language skills, with out any pharmaceutical / technical expertise, fanatical on Religion, Company employed to use them as a human slaves and sacrifices.
Those Operators worked every day on very potent (often classified as a lethal / deadly) actives with out any protection at all. Some were lasting for half an hour, some lasted for duration of a shift before getting valiantly sick and living Company either on their own or assisted by follow Operators. Company did not provide Work Orders at the Work Stations/Process Rooms nor any Safety Data Shits. Those unprotected exposures caused great bodily harm. I am positive; many of them are either died or are very sick. I pray for their souls.
They escaped war ravaged own Countries just to meet their end in Apotex.
Regards
April 14th, 2011 at 1:35 am
SAMPLE
Dear Sir/Madam,
Cyclosporine a very strong immunosuppressant drug.
For many years I worked in National Serum and Vaccination Plant in managerial capacity with hands on production duties of all human and animal immunoglobulin, serums and many vaccines, so I become very alarmed / shocked while Apotex announced, that Cyclosporine’s
(avery strong immunosuppressant drug widely used in post-allogeneic organ transplant to reduce the activity of the patient’s immune system, and therefore the risk of organ rejection. It has been studied in transplants of skin, heart, kidney, liver, lung, pancreas, bone marrow, and small intestine. Ciclosporin is a cyclic nonribosomal peptide of 11 amino acids and contains a single D-amino acid. Apart from in transplant medicine, ciclosporin is also used in psoriasis, severe atopic dermatitis, pyoderma gangrenosum, chronic autoimmune urticaria, and, infrequently, in rheumatoid arthritis and related diseases.) classification was changed and apparently Authorities allowed production of it with out any restrictions/ protection in common Manufacturing area / next to production of other products.
Treatment / exposure to Cyclosporine may be associated with a number of potentially serious adverse drug reactions (ADRs).
ADRs can include gingival hyperplasia, convulsions, peptic ulcers, pancreatitis, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, confusion, hypercholesterolemia, dyspnea, numbness and tingling particularly of the lips, pruritus, high blood pressure, potassium retention, and possibly hyperkalemia, kidney and liver dysfunction (nephrotoxicity& hepatotoxicity), burning sensation at finger tips and an increased vulnerability to opportunistic fungal and viral infections.
I request from Apotex a Carbon Copy of Original industrial manufacturing classification for Cyclosporine, which demanded processing of this substance in isolated area (with Air Locks in entrances to the Process Rooms, on dedicated equipment, with special Air Handling Systems, with special protective equipment for Personnel etc.)
During production of Validation Batches in not compliant manner and due to massive discharges of this material on the floors it was discovered, that product does heavily end up all over the plant including Offices (all over the desks of Offices employees) and Personnel had to be evacuated from the premises.
Apotex in stead of getting its infrastructure modernized and up to regulatory compliance announced that apparently did manage to change product’s classification which apparently removed ALL restrictions / Regulations and allowed Apotex to process it with out any considerations for contamination of the Personnel and cross contamination of the products. I request Carbon Copy of Regulatory Agency’s Report (Health Canada? etc.) changing classification of the Cyclosporine which permitted Apotex to proceed with production of this substance in not controlled / regulated manner.
Cyclosporine Side Effects
Autonomic Nervous System:
Dry mouth, increased sweating
Body as a Whole:
Allergy, asthenia, hot flushes, malaise, overdose, procedure NOS*, tumor NOS*, weight decrease, weight increase
Cardiovascular:
Abnormal heart sounds, cardiac failure, myocardial infarction, peripheral ischemia
Central and Peripheral Nervous System :
Hypoesthesia, neuropathy, vertigo
Endocrine :
Goiter
Gastrointestinal:
Constipation, dysphagia, enanthema, eructation, esophagitis, gastric ulcer, gastritis, gastroenteritis, gingival bleeding, glossitis, peptic ulcer, salivary gland enlargement, tongue disorder, tooth disorder
Infection:
Abscess, bacterial infection, cellulitis, folliculitis, fungal infection, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, renal abscess, moniliasis, tonsillitis, viral infection
Hematologic :
Anemia, epistaxis, leukopenia, lymphadenopathy
Liver and Biliary System:
Bilirubinemia
Metabolic and Nutritional:
Diabetes mellitus, hyperkalemia, hyperuricemia, hypoglycemia
Musculoskeletal System:
Arthralgia, bone fracture, bursitis, joint dislocation, myalgia, stiffness, synovial cyst, tendon disorder
Neoplasms :
Breast fibroadenosis, carcinoma
Psychiatric:
Anxiety, confusion, decreased libido, emotional lability, impaired concentration, increased libido, nervousness, paroniria, somnolence etc.
Reproductive (Female) :
Breast pain, uterine hemorrhage
Respiratory System :
Abnormal chest sounds, bronchospasm
Skin and Appendages :
Abnormal pigmentation, angioedema, dermatitis, dry skin, eczema, nail disorder, pruritus, skin disorder, urticaria
Special Senses:
Abnormal vision, cataract, conjunctivitis, deafness, eye pain, taste perversion, tinnitus, vestibular disorder
Urinary System :
Abnormal urine, hematuria, increased BUN, micturition urgency, nocturia, polyuria, pyelonephritis, urinary incontinence
Body as a Whole:
Fever, flushes, hot flushes
Cardiovascular :
Chest pain
Central and Peripheral Nervous System :
Appetite increased, insomnia, dizziness, nervousness, vertigo
Gastrointestinal:
Abdominal distention, constipation, gingival bleeding
Liver and Biliary System:
Hyperbilirubinemia
Neoplasms :
Skin malignancies (squamous cell and basal cell carcinomas)
Reticuloendothelial:
Platelet, bleeding, and clotting disorders, red blood cell disorder
Respiratory:
Infection, viral and other infection
Skin and Appendages :
Acne, folliculitis, keratosis, pruritus, rash, dry skin
Urinary System:
Micturition frequency
Visio:
Abnormal vision.
Mild hypomagnesemia and hyperkalemia may occur but are asymptomatic. Increases in uric acid may occur and attacks of gout have been rarely reported. A minor and dose related hyperbilirubinemia has been observed in the absence of hepatocellular damage. Cyclosporine therapy may be associated with a modest increase of serum triglycerides or cholesterol.
Side Effects by Body System
Renal:
BK virus associated nephropathy has been associated with serious outcomes, including deteriorating renal function and renal graft loss.
Elevations in serum creatinine and BUN are common during cyclosporine therapy and do not necessarily indicate allograft rejection.
In addition, cyclosporine-induced hyperuricemia may predispose the patient to renal calculi.
Renal insufficiency is dose-related. It is often accompanied by hypertension. Cyclosporine causes a reversible reduction in renal blood flow and glomerular filtration rate. The mechanism of cyclosporine-induced nephrotoxicity is now considered to be vasoconstriction of the afferent arterioles. ET1 is also considered to be a key substance of cyclosporine-induced nephrotoxicity. Mild nephrotoxicity generally responds to reductions in cyclosporine doses. A chronic, progressive nephrotoxicity may also occur in which discontinuation of cyclosporine fails to alleviate the renal insufficiency. Renal biopsies from these patients may demonstrate interstitial fibrosis, tubular atrophy, global or segmental glomerulosclerosis, or smooth vascular muscle damage. It has been suggested that higher cumulative doses or high cyclosporine trough levels may be associated with the development of interstitial fibrosis.
Renal function should be closely monitored. Differentiation between cyclosporine-induced nephrotoxicity, allograft rejection, and other causes of impaired renal function should be made before considering cyclosporine dosage adjustments.
The use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents in combination with cyclosporine may increase the risk of renal toxicity, especially in rheumatoid arthritis patients. Intact renal prostaglandins are necessary for maintaining adequate renal blood flow in patients treated with cyclosporine. Renal deterioration may occur independent of changes in cyclosporine levels.
Renal side effects including renal insufficiency (up to 38%) and BK virus associated nephropathy have been reported. A chronic, progressive, irreversible nephrotoxicity has also been reported. Elevations in serum creatinine and BUN are common during cyclosporine therapy and do not necessarily indicate allograft rejection. A case of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) associated with cyclosporine therapy has been reported. A fatal case of acute tubular necrosis has been reported. In addition, cyclosporine-induced hyperuricemia may predispose the patient to renal calculi.
Nervous system:
Seizures in patients on cyclosporine therapy may be associated with hypomagnesemia or concomitant high-dose corticosteroids. In addition, hypercholesterolemia and hypertension may contribute to cyclosporine neurotoxicity. Hypomagnesemia and hypercholesterolemia allow easier diffusion of cyclosporine across the blood-brain barrier potentiating neurotoxicity.
A review of cyclosporine-induced neurotoxicity revealed incidence after liver transplantation. Intravenous administration of cyclosporine was associated with more severe reactions such as psychosis, however severe reactions occurred rarely. MRI abnormalities were seldom found. Only 61% of patients that experienced neurotoxicity had cyclosporine trough levels suggestive of toxicity.
The speech disorder leading to mutism which has been associated with cyclosporine therapy was reversible.
The permanent blindness which was reported in patients was suspected to be due to neurotoxicity associated with elevated cyclosporine levels. Dechallenge with cyclosporine did not reverse the blindness . The blindness occurred over a 36 hour period 3 weeks following a kidney-pancreas transplant. The cyclosporine trough level was at its highest on the day of complete blindness (495 ng/mL). The mechanism by which cyclosporine induces neurologic blindness is unknown.
Nervous system side effects of cyclosporine have included tremors (to 55%) and headache (to 15%). Depression, somnolence, decreased visual acuity, confusion, paresthesias, seizures, and a reversible speech disorder leading to mutism have also been associated with cyclosporine therapy. Three cases of leukoencephalopathy have also been reported.
Dermatologic:
Dermatologic side effects of cyclosporine have included hypertrichosis acne and pruritus. Cyclosporine has been associated with pilosebaceous lesions, including hypertrichosis, epidermal cysts, keratosis pilaris, acne, folliculitis, sebaceous gland hyperplasia, and cutaneous malignancies. A case of erythroderma resembling Sezary syndrome with lymphocytic infiltrates of the skin has been reported. Cases of folliculodystrophy and pseudoporphyria have also been reported.
Hepatic:
Hepatic side effects have been common, occurring in up to 50% of patients, generally mild and self-limited, and manifest as elevated bilirubin, serum transaminases, and alkaline phosphatase values. In addition, cholestatic jaundice has been reported.
Hematologic:
A syndrome characterized by thrombocytopenia and microangiopathic anemia is reported in some patients.
Hematologic side effects have included leukopenia anemia, and thrombocytopenia.
Metabolic:
Metabolic side effects of cyclosporine have included significant hyperkalemia, which is sometimes associated with hyperchloremic metabolic acidosis.
Gastrointestinal:
Gastrointestinal side effects have included gum hyperplasia , diarrhea , nausea and vomiting , anorexia, abdominal discomfort, and reports of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Pancreatitis has also been reported.
Cardiovascular:
Study has reported that reduced basal and stimulated nitrous oxide production in cyclosporine-treated renal transplant recipients. The authors stated that this suggests endothelial dysfunction, and may explain the increased risk of premature atherosclerosis and cardiovascular death. They felt this might also provide, at least in part, a potential mechanism to explain cyclosporine-induced hypertension.
Cardiovascular side effects have included hypertension induced by cyclosporine. Myocardial infarction has also been reported rarely.
Endocrine:
Endocrine side effects of cyclosporine have included hypertriglyceridemia, increases in serum prolactin, decreases in serum testosterone, gynecomastia, hyperglycemia, and hypertrichosis.
Other:
Other side effects including a significant risk of acute rejection and death and/or graft loss have been reported. Cases of trichomegaly has been reported. A cases of calcineurin inhibitor induced pain syndrome (CIPS) has also been reported.
Hypersensitivity:
Hypersensitivity side effects to cyclosporine have occurred.
Anaphylaxis, manifest as acute dyspnea, tachypnea, pruritus, rash, and chest discomfort has been reported in rare cases after intravenous administration of cyclosporine.
Ocular:
A manifestation of neurotoxicity induced by cyclosporine (which has occurred in transplant patients more frequently than in other indications) is optic disc edema including papilledema, with possible visual impairment, secondary to benign intracranial hypertension.
Ocular side effects have included reports of pseudotumor cerebri, which resolved rapidly upon discontinuation of cyclosporine, and optic disk edema. Permanent blindness has been reported in one patient. A cases of cyclosporine-induced retinal toxic blindness has also been reported.
Oncologic:
Oncologic side effects including fatal cases of metastatic angiosarcoma during cyclosporine and prednisone immunosuppression (after kidney transplantation) have been reported.
The development of neoplasms, particularly lymphomas and skin malignancies, is more likely in immunosuppressed patients.
In a large study, an increased incidence of lymphoma and Kaposi’s sarcoma was found in patients treated with cyclosporine relative to those treated with a combination of azathioprine and prednisone. In some reported cases of B-cell lymphoma, the Epstein-Barr virus genome was found in the malignant cells, suggesting opportunistic infection during a cyclosporine-induced immunosuppressed state.
Immunologic:
Immunologic side effects have included an increased patient susceptibility to opportunistic infections due to cyclosporine-induced immunosuppression.
Accelerated hepatitis B and C infections, sometimes resulting in hepatic necrosis, Pneumocystis pneumoniae infections, as well as other viral, fungal, and bacterial infections have been reported in patients treated with cyclosporine. An in vitro study demonstrated enhanced intracellular cytomegalovirus production and virus spread, indicating an increased risk of CMV infection in cyclosporine-treated patients.
Local:
Local side effects including a cases of recurrent infusion phlebitis have been reported.
Respiratory:
Respiratory side effects have included respiratory arrest and aspiration pneumonia in one patient that lead to the death of that patient.
Apotex subjected me to the most horrifying experiences imaginable.
BEYOND ANY DOUBT I WAS EXPOSED TO VERY MANY (4000 +) DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES WITH OUT ANY PROTECTION AND THAT THEY CAUSED THE ADVERSE EFFECTS AND INJURIES I NOW SUFFER (Documented).
Apotex (my former employer) ravaged me (my system)! Apotex exposed me with out any personal / collective protection to well over 4000 very potent chemicals / actives. The human nervous system is particularly vulnerable to toxic-chemical insults. Many chemicals can permanently disrupt nervous system function.
Many of those side effects I do suffer includeing abnormal pigmentation, skin disorder , skin malignancies (basal cell carcinomas), very painful a soft-tissue mass (soft-tissue tumors/soft-tissue lumps etc.
DECIVED, ABONDONED BY Ontario Labour Board, Ontario Ombudsmen Office, FAIR PRACTICES COMMISION, Ontario Worker Adviser, Ontario Human Rights Commission, Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, WSiB, -GOVERNMENT of ONTARIO. Unfortunately in my case many key Government Agencies turn out to be dysfunctional and criminal.
I AM SUFFERING WITH OUT ANY HELP NOR CONSTITUTIONAL / LAW PROTECTION IN CANADA!
The issue/problem becomes politically sensitive and concluding it in lawful manner is in the best interest of General Public.
Regards,
April 14th, 2011 at 1:37 am
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please note, that during years of my communication with variety of Government Agencies in position of assistance/with mandate, Lawyers (all Lawyers recommended by Law Society of Upper Canada, all in the Phone Book, all advertised on e-net in the Province of Ontario and many across Canada), M.P.P., Office of the Worker Adviser (OWA), Legal Aid Ontario, Community Legal Clinic, etc. no one helped me!
After years of investigation Ministry of Labor, Ontario Ombudsmen etc. did not have any documents in my File, accept what I did submit!
With assistance of Government Agencies, Apotex managed to turn tables around and against Criminal Code, Occupational Health and Safety Act obligated me (a victim) to produce / provide all information / evidence, swamping me with administrative tasks and huge challenges, redirecting my non existent resources to challenge dysfunctional System.
All Government Agencies including OHR Tribunal did not assist me in any of my efforts to get situation in order and in compliance with CANADIAN JUSTICE SYSTEM.
Contrarily, many Agencies engaged in criminal activities. Ministry of Labour did criminally process my Application under SECTION 50 OF THE OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ACT violations and AT THE END dismissed it and sarcastically advised me to litigate against “legal assistance providers”.
Example of my purged Files in possession of WORKER ADVISER (WA) which also sabotaged and dismissed my Application:
April 14th, 2011 at 1:54 am
Apotex did knowingly and willfully make a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statements and representation in a matter within the jurisdiction of the Ontario Labor Board, WSiB (Workers Compensation Insurance Board), Ontario Human Rights Commission, Ontario Health Act, Ontario Labor Law as well obstructed Canadian Constitution etc.
Apotex committed many counts of perverting the course of justice or intending to pervert the course of justice, many counts of perjury, criminal conspiracy, criminal negligence, criminal recruitment of false witnesses, attempted murder, did cause permanent disability, irreparable damage.
Company terrorized by many means any one / other employees voicing concerns about issues with Safety and quality of the products.
*-Company’s conduct was planned and deliberate,
- Company’s intend and motive was clear,
- The defendant persisted in the outrageous conduct over a lengthily period of time,
- The defendant attempted to conceal and cover up its conduct,
- Defendant was aware that what it was doing was wrong,
- The defendant profited from its misconduct,
- Defendant knew that violation was deeply personal to me (the plaintiff),
- Company understood my financial vulnerability,
No Justice System is allowing a Criminal to fabricate an alibi/evidence.
Due to such approach by WSiB and some other Agencies, TorPharm/Apotex so boldly breaks the Law and flourishes on their path of crime.
Overlooking their activities is like being an accessory to the crimes and this is against Public’s best interest.
-IN ONTARIO PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY IS COMMITTING CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY!!!!!!
April 14th, 2011 at 1:58 am
Apotex Inc. 3/29/10
Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service
Food and Drug Administration
Silver Spring MD 20993
Warning Letter
VIA FEDERAL EXPRESS MAIL WL: 320 – 10 – 003
March 29, 2010
Mr. Jack M. Kay
President and COO
Apotex Inc.
150 Signet Drive
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M9L 1T9
Dear Mr. Kay:
During our July 27- August 14, 2009 inspection of your pharmaceutical manufacturing facility, Apotex Inc. located at 150 Signet Drive, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, investigators from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) identified significant violations of the Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) regulations for Finished Pharmaceuticals, Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, Parts 210 and 211. These violations cause your drug products to be adulterated within the meaning of section 501(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) [21 U.S.C. § 351(a)(2)(B)] in that the methods used in, or the facilities or controls used for, their manufacture, processing, packing, or holding do not conform to, or are not operated or administered in conformity with CGMP. In addition, our inspection revealed that you failed to submit NDA Field Alert Reports (FARs) to FDA as required by 21 C.F.R. § 314.81(b)(1) and section 505(k) of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 355(k)].
The July – August 2009 inspection uncovered several violations that are identical to those found during a December 10 – 19, 2008 inspection of your Etobiocoke, Canada site that resulted in the issuance of a Warning Letter to the Etobiocoke site in June 2009. These identical CGMP violations demonstrated a lack of adequate process controls and raised serious questions regarding your corporation’s quality and production systems. This prompted the FDA to place both sites under import alert on August 28, 2009, whereby all finished drug products offered for entry into the United States and manufactured at the Etobiocoke and Signet Drive, Ontario facilities are detained without physical examination. Your firm has voluntarily recalled approximately 659 batches of different products manufactured at this site, and remains under Import Alert 66-40. However, this Warning Letter is being issued because of serious and repeat violations from the 2008 and 2009 inspections and because your response, dated September 3, 2009, and discussed below, is inadequate and lacks sufficient corrective actions.
Specific violations observed during the inspection include, but are not limited, to the following:
CGMP VIOLATIONS
1. Your firm’s quality control unit failed to follow the responsibilities and procedures applicable to release of the drug product [21 C.F.R. § 211.22(d)].
For example, (b)(4), an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API), batch #HY2470, was found to be contaminated with (b)(4) materials. You rejected part of this lot. However, you used a portion of this contaminated API to manufacture Cetirizine HCl Film Coated Tablets, 10 mg batches #HY2910 and #HY2912. These batches were released for distribution and shipped to the United States.
Additionally, Metformin HCl (b)(4) batch #HT2731 was found contaminated with (b)(4) particles identified as (b)(4) material, and charred material. This batch was not rejected. Instead, it was used to manufacture Metformin HCL (b)(4) tablets batch #HT2657, film coated into batch #HT2526, and packed into finished drug product batch #HR7670. Batch #HR7670 was subsequently released for distribution and shipped to the United States under batch #JC2151 on March 4, 2009.
The inspection also documented your practice of repackaging and assigning new batch numbers to products that failed the Acceptable Quality Level (AQL) test. Your firm lacks a scientific rationale and documentation to support this practice. For example, desiccant batch #HK8805 was used in approximately 76 different products, 11 of which failed the AQL desiccant leaking test. These 11 lots of contaminated Ranitidine Film Coated tablets 150 mg were initially rejected. However, 10 of these 11 lots were repackaged into 500 count bottles using a new lot of desiccant, and assigned a new batch number. These lots were then released for distribution without assessing the potential impact the leaking desiccant could have on product quality. You stated in your response that examination of retain samples for the 11 lots did not confirm the presence of leaky desiccant. However, it is possible that the absence of defective desiccant may be related to the limited number of retain samples examined. In your response to this letter please include a justification for the sample size and the corrective actions you have implemented to prevent reoccurrence of these types of events.
Your response reports that for the period of July 2007 to August 2009 your firm had voluntary recalled all products associated with: a) deviation reports, b) investigations of foreign components and material, and c) products included in opened Field Alert Reports. This corresponds to the immediate corrective action addressing this deficiency. However, your response does not address other unacceptable practices such as returning defective material back into inventory, or re-releasing failed material that was inadequately reprocessed or retested without a scientifically sound rationale and an assessment of potential impact to product quality.
Your corrective and preventive actions should include specific instructions for reprocessing and conditions under which failed material can be reprocessed and returned to inventory.
2. Your firm does not have adequate written procedures for production and process controls designed to assure that the drug products you manufacture have the identity, strength, quality, and purity they purport or are represented to possess [21 C.F.R. § 211.100(a)].
For example, three initial process validation batches (#HP0793, #HP0706, #HP0794) for Oxcarbazepine 300 mg tablets failed the dissolution test specification (Q=NLT (b)(4)% at 30 minutes) and the batches failed to meet the 30 minutes dissolution specification. Dissolution out of trend (OOT) results were also obtained for Oxcarbazepine 150 mg and 600 mg tablets. The same (b)(4) was used for the process validation of Oxcarbazepine 300 mg, 150 mg, and 600 mg tablets.
During your second attempt to perform the process validation, three batches of Oxcarbazepine tablets 300 mg (lot #HT8606, #HT8607, and #HT8608) were made from one (b)(4) that failed to meet the 30 minutes dissolution specification. You released Oxcarbazepine 150 mg and 600 mg tablets that were manufactured from the same (b)(4) that was used to manufacture the 300 mg strength. Your investigation Q-note 200071071 concluded that the dissolution results were affected by the order in which the excipient (b)(4), USP was added during the (b)(4) process. Appropriate process design studies were not conducted to scientifically establish the correct order of adding excipients, e.g., (b)(4), during the (b)(4) operation to ensure proper dissolution of the drug product.
In addition, please explain your rationale for releasing different lots of product (Oxcarbazepine 150 mg, 300 mg, and 600 mg) manufactured from the same defective (b)(4).
3. Your firm fails to thoroughly investigate unexplained discrepancies or the failure of a batch or any of its components to meet any of its specifications, whether or not the batch has already been distributed [21 C.F.R. § 211.192].
For example, on March 31, 2008, during the preventive maintenance of the (b)(4), yellow powder identified as residue of (b)(4) active materials and several excipients were found behind the (b)(4) seals. Subsequently, on May 12, 2008, a yellow contaminant was found during the production of Ranitidine HCL (b)(4) batch #HV9588 that led to the rejection of the batch. Your investigations of these incidents are inadequate because the investigations were not expanded to other lots manufactured in the same equipment prior to March 31, 2008.
The inspection revealed several other examples of inadequate investigations that did not extend to other batches of the same drug product, or other products that may have been associated with the failure or discrepancy. Specifically, investigation Q-note 200070632 involved the contamination of Metformin HCl API batch #HP8402 with particles identified as (b)(4) material, and charred material. You failed to assess all batches of finished product manufactured with this contaminated API. Metformin HCl tablets batch #HT2569, manufactured using the contaminated API, was released to the United States without an evaluation into the potential impact to product quality.
Furthermore, your investigation (Q-note 200068475) into the appearance failure of Lithium Carbonate 300 mg capsules (batch #HM6665) for missing imprint on the capsules, did not include an evaluation of related batches manufactured using the same batch of capsules lacking the imprint. In addition, the remaining empty capsules in your inventory were not evaluated for lack of imprint. Instead, they were used in the production of seven other batches of Lithium Carbonate capsules and distributed to the United States.
In addition, your product Metformin HCl (b)(4) lot #HL4695 was produced using (b)(4), batch #HL8373. This batch of raw material was found to be contaminated with charred (b)(4) and (b)(4).
It was used to produce 20 lots, including Metformin HCl 500 mg tablets and Gemfibrozil 600 mg tablets that were released for distribution to the United States. Your response lacks appropriate corrective actions to prevent the use of contaminated raw materials in product manufacturing. We are concerned with your organizational unit’s lack of appropriate oversight in assuring that procedures are followed during production and release, resulting in the use of contaminated raw materials in the manufacturing process.
FDA’s inspection of your Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada manufacturing site during December 10 – 19, 2008 uncovered significant CGMP violations and the failure of your quality unit to carry out its responsibilities. This resulted in issuance of a Warning Letter on June 25, 2009. In your response to the FDA-483 you reported that your Etobicoke and Signet facilities are managed by the same quality unit. The violations found during the July – August 2009 inspection at Signet Drive, Ontario are an indication that your quality unit continues to fail to perform its responsibilities regarding control and review, and to release products that meet specifications. Your response to the FDA-483 is inadequate in that it does not address the inability of your quality unit to conduct adequate investigations, determine the root cause, or establish adequate preventive and corrective actions for the problems found. Please provide a corrective action plan that describes your procedures, corrective and preventive actions and controls to ensure product quality. This plan should also include a comprehensive retrospective review of your raw material suppliers, equipment adequacy, cleaning and maintenance procedures implemented to ensure that all products produced and released by your quality unit meet specifications.
4. Your firm fails to have an adequate equipment cleaning and maintenance procedure or program to prevent contamination that would alter the safety, identity, strength, quality, or purity of the drug product beyond other established requirements [21 C.F.R. § 211.67(a)].
For example, a field alert report (FAR) involving Eplerenone Tables (ANDA 78-482) reported the presence of powder residues during a preventive maintenance check of the (b)(4) (asset #5001-PR31-(b)(4)). Based on your investigation, the root cause was determined to be an inadequate cleaning procedure because the procedure did not provide for complete disassembly of the (b)(4) lines, as well as use of the clean-in-place system. Your investigation also concluded that your preventive maintenance program was not robust enough to detect the potential contamination. In December 2009, two other FARs were reported regarding the same situation. Although the first notification about cross-contamination was in September 2009, it was not until December 2009 that other equipment and products were implicated because of cross-contamination. As part of this investigation, you used placebo batches (instead of product) in a study to determine if the cleaning procedure was adequate and the product was fit for release. This study is inadequate in that it did not reproduce the scenario and conditions that specifically lead to the problem nor predict the level of the contamination that may exist. Your cleaning procedure should be robust enough to ensure that no residue from previous lots remains in the manufacturing equipment.
Furthermore, a FAR investigation initiated on October 2, 2009, for Diltiazem capsules manufactured in (b)(4)), indicated that a powder residue was present on some of the (b)(4) units used in your facility. The (b)(4) piping, connected to the (b)(4) to provide (b)(4) to the units, came in contact with the product. Your investigation is inadequate because it does not provide assurance that the powder particles in (b)(4) did not contaminate the product manufactured in this equipment. Your actions did not include a global approach of corrective actions in that all (b)(4) were not examined for powder residue.
Additionally, an investigation into a FAR initiated on December 8, 2009, for Clonazepan tablets (0.5 mg, 1 mg, and 2 mg) in 100 and 500 bottles, revealed that foreign materials were found in the (b)(4) (asset #750) above the (b)(4) of the (b)(4) (asset #5001-PR25-KE209). Your investigation indicated that the presence of the foreign material was due to incorrect sizing of the (b)(4) and seal during equipment modification. Also, you indicated that the contaminated products were Clonazepam tablets and (b)(4) capsules. This investigation is inadequate because it did not include when the modification occurred, or identify all the lots manufactured with the (b)(4) since the modification. The investigation report also fails to include whether the modification occurred in other (b)(4) used in your facility, or if the other (b)(4) were examined for similar issues. The FAR only included Clonazepam tablets lots. It did not list the lots related to (b)(4) capsules.
We are concerned about your inadequate preventive maintenance and cleaning procedures and your failure to conduct a timely investigation into all equipment and products potentially affected by the deviations.
FIELD ALERT REPORTING VIOLATIONS
The NDA/ANDA Field Alert reporting requirements in 21 C.F.R. § 314.81(b)(1)(i) and (ii), effective since May 23, 1985, require holders of NDAs and ANDAs to submit certain information about distributed drug products to the appropriate FDA district office within three working days of receipt by the applicant. The intent of the 21 C.F.R. § 314.81(b)(1) regulation is to establish an early warning system so that significant problems are brought to the Agency’s attention by applicant holders in order to prevent potential safety hazards from drug products already in distribution and also to prevent potential safety hazards with drug products manufactured in the future. Field Alert Reports must be submitted for confirmed and unconfirmed problems meeting the definition of the regulation within three working days of becoming aware of the problem.
In addition to the aforementioned CGMP violations, your firm is in violation of the Field Alert reporting requirements set forth in 21 C.F.R. § 314.81(b)(1)(i) and (ii). For example, during November and December 2009, your firm submitted two FARs due to contamination found in your manufacturing equipment. Your quality unit was notified of one of the two FARs that pertains to Eplerenone tablets (ANDA 78-482) on September 16, 2009. However, the FAR was not submitted to FDA until November 20, 2009. The second FAR, pertaining to the (b)(4) (asset #5001-PR29-(b)(4)) equipment used in manufacturing room (b)(4), was submitted to FDA on December 7, 2009. However, your quality unit was aware of this information on November 26, 2009.
We remain concerned with the continuing CGMP violations demonstrated at your facilities and failure to report FAR related events within three days of becoming aware of a problem. Please include in your written response the corrective action you plan to take regarding distributed products manufactured at these facilities that may be affected by the violations.
The violations cited in this letter are not intended to be an all-inclusive statement of violations that exist at your facility. You are responsible for investigating and determining the causes of the violations identified above and for preventing their recurrence and the occurrence of other violations. If you wish to resume shipping products to the United States, it is the responsibility of your firm to ensure compliance with all U.S. standards for CGMP and all applicable U.S. laws and regulations.
Until all corrections have been completed and FDA has confirmed correctio