2:16:27 So this is something that was saving. I think, this is one of the things...I teased this on Thursday which means we have to make good on the tease about the war well this is the meningitis story. We've had this story going on for it seems like weeks now so apparently some steroids that were sent out contained the meningitis How does that happen by the way? Well, I know a lot of things you can contaminate and these factors you can see it's contamination taking place but how specifically does meningitis
2:17:10 Get into the back into these shots. Well, I have a report and and It may explain how it got into the shots And I can tell you why this story is being hyped good evening Investigators say they could see with their naked eyes black specks of deadly fungus Floating in vials of steroids now there you go. Does that answer your question? We were walking by I saw black specks It must be the meningitis fungus. The meningitis is right there to be injected into patients across the country Late today authorities said a criminal investigation would be opened and they would move to revoke the license of New England Compounding Center That's the pharmacy identified as the source of contaminated drugs that have caused a meningitis outbreak in at least 17 states
2:18:05 300 people have come down with the disease, 23 have died and federal officials say the outbreak is spreading. With this rapidly developing story, here's Dr. John LePook Okay so there are a couple of key things here you have to pay attention to and the main thing is the word compounding or compounder Are you familiar with this term John? Yeah actually I wanted to talk about it in more depth because there is A war on compounders And the war on compounders stems from old generic drugs that are used for a lot of simple things and people have, and they're trying to run these guys out of town so they can take the old generic drug, jacked the price up and stick it to the insurance companies. And it's not just that. So compounders are essentially your mom-and-pop pharmacy who has been doing this since ancient times
2:19:05 That's what a pharmacist used to be known for doing. That's right, he would get... Making the product on the spot. So compounding is he makes the product on the spot and the compounder your local mom-and-pop guy can do this for a fraction of the cost of what the pharmaceutical companies actually want to as John correctly pointed out stick your insurance company for So this is what mistakes are made in pharmacology all the time. In this case, it's being hyped up I mean please don't pay attention to the multi-billion dollar fine that big pharma company gets remember that John no one talked about that not a single not a single millions and billions of dollars for their screw ups because you know hundreds of people killed
2:19:51 sold by their whole industry. But now let's go to the pharmacology, to the little mom and pop shops and let's run them out of town. Listen to the rest of the report. And by the way this is I think this is ABC? Whatever it's big pharma PR companies also known as broadcast networks who are hyping this unfolding story The preliminary investigation has revealed a lack of basic laboratory standards at New England Compounding Center. Do you see what they're doing? Lack of standards, it's dirty, it's messy these are not professionals Today Massachusetts state investigators found that NECC had dirty floor mats on a leaky boiler Oh! A leaky boiler
2:20:34 I hate it. I mean could you get the picture in your head of just a leaky boiler dirty floor mats? Oh, you know this is somebody stepped on the floor man did not properly test lab equipment did not adequately sterilize medications and ship drugs before they were tested for contamination. Because there are evil, evil people who are trying to kill you and your children Of course Congress is all over this and you can just wait for the news report to coincide with someone trying to push a bill through. Hey Shelly well one senator says compounding pharmacies operate in a regulatory black hole with very little federal oversight from the FDA. And that discussion is calling attention to a compounding pharmacy here in Dallas, it recently pleaded guilty to shipping mislabeled medication that led to three deaths
2:21:23 Once these medications begin to cross state lines, logistically it's just more difficult. There are 7500 compounding pharmacies in the US and we're going to get rid of all them. Many of them mom-and-pop operations serving local customers face-to-face but that can But that can't be good because these people make mistakes that kill you and your children. They're regulated at the state level, not under the more rigorous federal standards of the FDA. Government is good! Government is here to help you. But now that some companies like the one under investigation in Massachusetts chip large quantities of medicine all across the country... Huge quantity!
2:22:02 I can't even do it. Critics in Congress think the FDA needs more control More control, more government control! Good good good for you Mike Jacobson is the Dean of the School of Pharmacy at UNT Let's bring in the expert When we see an instance like this uh... this is a wake-up call to revisit this question of doubt Stooge In the apothecary case in Dallas The FDA did have the authority to prosecute because the deadly medicine was inaccurately labeled and that is a federal offense. The drugs mixed by Mr Osborne's company were not merely misbranded but lethal drug makers of all sizes from large corporations to small compounding pharmacies have a duty to ensure their products are safe. So here's where I was mislabeled
2:22:49 It was a steroid and it was labeled steroids instead of steroid plus meningitis. Plus meningitis extra bonus is mislabeled. Yeah, so okay but this is obviously we have to follow this as it progresses so I got a couple of emails from pharmacologists around the country and they say you know or even I got a note from a doctor he said look I'm a really busy doctor making crap money So I just need to send you this link because this is bullcrap and exactly what you said, John. They're just trying to run the small pharmacies out of business which will only jack up your insurance rates indirectly because it's going to cost 10 times the amount if you don't have the small compounders making your stuff." And you know what? Miss Mickey, she goes to something called The People's Pharmacy. Her thyroid doesn't work.
2:23:41 She has an inactive thyroid. So she has to take thyroid? Actually, she's gone to a whole bunch of different doctors and now she doesn't have the synthetic stuff but I think it's pig hormones. Okay so it has to be done by a compounder And its made specifically for her by a compounder at The People's Pharmacy Yeah, and they're trying to run those companies out of business. And they know her they care about her you know they They do think they give a crap and they're trying to get rid of that so she can go back on some synthesized bullcrap Which is generic kind of you know level? You have this lever a little more but not something that's for you specifically yeah, yeah, no, this is welcome to the big business the corporatism It's what it is. Yeah