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Well? I just been told that there's a truck in the River in Pre D'en Haut.
I guess there's a body inside. I pray that it's not another young person who took their life away? I guess the tragic accident happened near the Church at Beaumont!!!
It's should be on Global News tonight at 11:00pm!!!
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Hi Charles,
Was not sure where to leave this information. Are you able to section off blog sites so you can leave comments on a certain subject. Anyway here is something I just found:
Health Canada reinstates attention-deficit drug
Canadian Press
TORONTO — An attention deficit hyperactivity disorder drug that was forced off the market last February by Health Canada is being reinstated, the drug's maker, Shire Pharmaceuticals, announced Wednesday.
Adderall XR will be reinstated on the Canadian market effective this Friday, but it will take a bit longer before the drug is available again across the country, company spokesperson Matt Cabrey said in an interview.
"We expect to have the product available for patients within the next 14 to 21 days and we're now in the process of going through all the appropriate steps to ensure that it's available to physicians and pharmacists,'' Cabrey said.
The reversal of the federal regulator's decision comes after a panel of experts -- called a new drug committee -- reviewed the safety data on the drug. Shire triggered the review by in effect appealing Health Canada's decision to remove the drug from the market.
"The NDC came to the conclusion that there was not enough evidence of an increased harm from Adderall compared to other therapies available,'' said Health Canada spokesperson Jirina Vlk.
"The benefits of treating ADHD has to be balanced with the known harms of this class of drugs.''
Health Canada pulled the licence of Adderall XR, a once-a-day treatment for ADHD, on Feb. 9 after learning from the company of 20 cases of sudden death and 12 of stroke in people using the drug. None of those cases occurred in Canada.
Fourteen of the sudden deaths and two of the strokes were in children. A number of the cases involved children with structural heart defects.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration reviewed the data on the cases last summer and concluded the rate of sudden deaths and strokes in Adderall users wasn't higher than what's called the background rate -- the rate of such events that would be expected to occur in people not taking the drug.
The U.S. regulator agreed with the company that product labels should be modified to warn of the potential problem.
But when Shire approached Health Canada to change its product monograph in this country, the federal regulator responded by pulling the drug.
The announcement was criticized by psychiatrists and patients, many of whom had found the drug more useful for treating their symptoms than other available therapies.
The guy that died was in his 80s but it's still sad....
"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration reviewed the data on the cases last summer and concluded the rate of sudden deaths and strokes in Adderall users wasn't higher than what's called the background rate --"
"Background rate"? Is that the rate of profit pharmacuetical companies make. So it is ok if so many die suddenely as long as profit margin remains good. Sounds like argumnent Bernard Lord uses to keep the VLTs around. Will profiteering get any more cold-blooded??
No, the background rate has nothing to do with money. As it says in the article, the background rate is the number of people who would die without the drug.
It may sound odd if you aren't in the health care world but people die of all kinds of things all the time, even young people. You'll notice in the article that it said that those 14 young people had heart defects to begin with. So the 'background effect' is simply the number of young people that had that heart defect who would have died anyway, and in a country as big as the states that's a fairly low number.
My personal opionion is that Health Canada KNEW all of that, but yanked it off the market so that they could tell everyone just how determined they are to look after our safety. Then everybody protests, like the people on the drug who want it, so Health Canada slowly puts it back out there. The next horrible drug story that comes along they can tout out their story "well just look how quickly we acted on Addenall, obviously we are looking out for you and know what we're doing". Unfortunately, they don't count on the internet so we can find out that they DON"T know what they're doing (or they know what they're doing but it's FOR the corporations, not us)
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