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State(s) have attempted to import drugs from India.The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced on Friday that it has imposed sweeping controls on the distribution of its products to ensure that none are used in lethal injections, a step that closes off the last remaining open-market source of drugs used in executions.
More than 20 American and European drug companies have already adopted such restrictions, citing either moral or business reasons. Nonetheless, the decision from one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical manufacturers is seen as a milestone.
“With Pfizer’s announcement, all F.D.A.-approved manufacturers of any potential execution drug have now blocked their sale for this purpose,” said Maya Foa, who tracks drug companies for Reprieve, a London-based human rights advocacy group. “Executing states must now go underground if they want to get hold of medicines for use in lethal injection.”
The mounting difficulty in obtaining lethal drugs has already caused states to furtively scramble for supplies.
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State(s) have attempted to import drugs from India.
Myself I an against the DP.
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I have friends that came back from Bosnia and AStan, with PTSD.Moral issues? While they also make drugs that intentionally impair citizens under the guise of mental health, and prescribed by psychologists practicing a voodoo form of health care?
I have friends that came back from Bosnia and AStan, with PTSD.
They are still on Meds, these help them to cope, even socialize and work to a point. These have also assisted them with interacting with their families and not going off the deep end of violent behaviors directed at family & friends, or turning to other drugs and alcohol as many have done.
But they will never come back to the person they were before.
Without them, they would have offed themselves years ago.
The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia
State(s) have attempted to import drugs from India.
Myself I an against the DP.
Do you
Agree
Disagree
Other- Pls explain
Not sure
Moral issues? While they also make drugs that intentionally impair citizens under the guise of mental health, and prescribed by psychologists practicing a voodoo form of health care?
Though, shooting the criminals might be more humane, one must ask why their moral feelings are more valuable than those of bakers that won't participate in gay marriage.
You are off course mate.
Change the law for execution or give it up. But is the company allowed to withhold business anymore than a baker?
Unless we kill a LOT more prisoners than I'm aware of, prescription drugs are a much more serious threat to life, to the tune of 328,000 dead each year globally.
Most of those aren't suicides. They are wrongly prescribed, bad reactions, and/or interactions with other drugs.
New Prescription Drugs: A Major Health Risk With Few Offsetting Advantages | Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
Consider too that most of the research these companies perform is underwritten by their governments.
So it's fine for them to unintentionally kill tens of thousands every year, but it's not OK for them to provide a lethal dose of a drug to the government (that helped pay for their research) to intentionally kill 1 convicted criminal?
Comparing an apple to a horse.
I'm not sure you understand the difference between an intentional act and an unintentional one.
What does that have to do with the price of cheese?
Hell if I know.
I'm not sure you understand the difference between an intentional act and an unintentional one.
The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia
State(s) have attempted to import drugs from India.
Myself I an against the DP.
Do you
Agree
Disagree
Other- Pls explain
Not sure
I am solidly against the DP, but I find it ironic that a company that participates in the price gouging of prescription drugs suddenly has a conscience. I wonder how many non-criminal people have died because they couldn't afford their medication?The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia
State(s) have attempted to import drugs from India.
Myself I an against the DP.
Do you
Agree
Disagree
Other- Pls explain
Not sure
The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia
State(s) have attempted to import drugs from India.
Myself I an against the DP.
Do you
Agree
Disagree
Other- Pls explain
Not sure
If Pfizer sells a drug, they have to sell it to everyone. I read that somewhere on these boards.
Agree, because juries are too fallible for the death penalty. The vast majority of old cases do not have DNA evidence available, and we have seen so many exonerations of persons on death row.
If juries were 100% accurate, then I'd fully support the death penalty. I cannot support that penalty in a system that fails so many.
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