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Nevertheless, after this had been announced in the press, the Health authorities in the German Federal Republic gave its own drug manu- facturers a helping hand and a whole year's time - until July Ist 1978 - to sell off their stocks of lethal anti-diabetic drugs, including Dipar, Silubin-retard and Sindatil. Clearly, what mattered was not the pub- lic's health by the Syndicate's profits. On September 11, 1979, a panel of doctors and former Valium addicts told a U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Health that Valium, a tran- quiliser taken routinely by more than 15% of the adult population, was potentially addictive even in moderate doses. The former users said they experienced agonising withdrawal symptoms when they tried to drop the drug, and they complained that their doctors never informed them of the drug's potential addictive qualities when first prescribing it THE LEGALISED MASSACRE (CONTINUED) animals trying to find new products capable of neutralising the disas- trous side-effects of Clofibrate and other miracle drugs. THE NEW MALADIES The Oxychinol Case The systematic fraud perpetrated by the all-powerful Chemical Syndicate in collusion with the various Health Institutes to the detri- ment of the world population's health is growing day by day. And yet proof comes to light day after day that the "new drugs" (in actual fact they are mostly the same old drugs identical ingredients old in varying combinations and under different labels) are not only incapable of cur- ing diseases that nature couldn't cure by herself if given half a chance, but are constantly producing brand new diseases, unknown a few years ago. Bn Aascnae MOTD nomen then naveen IME LEGALISEY MASSAURE (UVINTNINUED) = . “ - In August 1978 came the news Preludin and Maxiton, “pep ‘i : DRUG DAMAGE NOT PREDICTED BY ANIMAL TESTS [RECECI RCS ran cuneate Creep ape cand he gn oven damages to the heart and the DRUG sabe - we = | pee ati Clioquinol), responsible for a Barbiturates (Nembutal etc), new, severe disease of the ner- prescribed against insomnia, vous system - subacute myelo- Eraldin Corneal damage Not Predicted (for heart disease) including blindness turn out in the long run to : : r . optic neuropathy, or SMON for increase insomnia instead of | Chloramphenicol Aplastic anemia, Not Predicted aia Te a al . curing it shiners often feral Takeda, Ciba-Geigy Japan and Pronap and Plaxin, two tran- Tbufenac Deaths from liver A Tanabe Seijaku - were sentenced etn Soh ite and'ey | fora) damage pelo authorities to pay indemnities o! withdrawn in 1970. Plosint s. 1 deaths i 3,25 billion Yen (appr. $17 mil- Phenacetin, only recently (for arthritis) a Not Predicted lion or £5 million) to 133 plain- taken off the market in the Severt neurological tiffs. This was the conclusion of United States, is a painkiller Zipeprot symptoms at highdoses but the first of over 20 court cases sold in various compositions | (cough suppressant) - seizures & coma Not Predicted currently under way. under 200 different brand labels. ; . The plaintiffs had demonstrat- It can block the kidney functions, destroy the kidneys, cause kidney ed the SMON was caused by drugs that had been sold under the protest tumours and destroy the red blood corpuscles. that they would miraculously cure what the manufacturers had defined Amydopyrine, another pain-killer, has caused lethal damage to the as "summer diarrhoea", a highly unscientific definition for a mild blood, including agranulocytosis, and has been withdrawn in many intestinal disorder that affects a great number of travellers in tropical countries, but not in all. It occurs in Salgydal, in association with lands; Americans variously call it “the GI's” or "Montezuma’s Phenacetin, in Optalidon and on over 160 other products. revenge”, and the British "Spanish tummy”, and it usually clears up Marzine, used against nausea and travel sickness, has been with- without treatment within 48 hours. drawn in 1971 in many countries (eg Switzerland and Italy) because of That is, unless one takes the "miracle" drug Oxychinol that Ciba- the grave damage it inflicts, especially on children. Geigy had developed several years earlier, and marketed world-wide Reserpine, prescribed to reduce blood pressure, has been shown to under different labels (Mexaform, Entero-vioform, Intestopan, increase threefold the risk of beast cancer in women. It is also consid- Sterosan etc.), recommending them to travellers at the first sign of ered to increase the risk of cancer of the brain, the pancreas, the uterus, indigestion, and even prophylactically, ie before developing any the ovaries and the skin. It is furthermore famous for causing night- intestinal troubles (which this drug causes!). mares and depression. At least a thousand deaths had to be counted in Japan and 30,000 Cyclophosphamide, another drug advertised to fight cancer, pro- cases of blindness and/or paralysis of the lower limbs before it was vokes widespread necroses which start in the liver and the lungs and _ realised that heretofore unexplained similar cases of death, blindness usually kills the patient much sooner than the cancer would, as do most —_and paralysis in Holland, Denmark, Germany, France, Great Britain, drugs employed to "check" cancer by chemotherapy." A Miracle Drug _ Belgium, Italy, Sweden, etc had also been caused by Oxychinol-con- That Backfired” was the title of an Jnternational Herald Tribune article taining drugs. on January 14th, 1981. It began by recalling that American physicians These findings exploded Ciba-Geigy's lame alibi that only Japanese had started prescribing Clofibrate massively 13 years before, because: had been adversely affected by this drug and that therefore the The drug seemed to offer modern man the luxury of having his Japanese were themselves to blame for their national catastrophe, hav- cake and eating it too - that is, of continuing to devour steak and ing fallen for the manufacturers’ claims with exaggerated confidence! butter without fear of heart attack just by taking a little capsule In 1979, a Swedish medical doctor Olle Hansson, Professor pediatric four times a day ... Far from saving lives, it now appears that neurology at Géteborg University, published in a book the findings of Clofibrate actually increases the death rate among its users. A the Tokyo court, which had summoned him to testify at the first decade long study run by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Oxychinol trial. In this book he leaves no doubts about the fact that recently reported that men regularly taking the drug were 25% some big drug manufacturers do not hesitate to walk over corpses - more likely to die of a broad range of disorders, including can- human corpses - for the sake of profits, and resort to any and every cer, stroke, respiratory disease and ironically, heart attack, than kind of lie to conceal the fact that pecuniary gain is their ruling motiva- those who got a placebo capsule. tien. But don't get depressed folks. Thousands of other confused or just In Japan alone, Oxychinol was sold under 168 different brand grant-hungry scientists are currently busy using up millions of fresh Not Predicted Not Predicted Tbufenac (for arthritis) Not Predicted Flosint (for arthritis) Several deaths Not Predicted Not Predicted 24*NEXUS ~~ Continued on page 49 AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1992