Is The Death Of Compounding Pharmacies Immanent?

Senate bill S.1082 is set to KILL them! Compounding pharmacies have been around for hundreds of years. In fact, all pharmacists used to compound drugs before Big Pharma gained control of medicine. But today they are under fire. Pharmaceutical companies suffered a stinging economic reversal after the WHI trial exposed the dangers of conventional hormone replacement therapy. Women discarded their drugs and flocked to physicians who prescribed bioidentical hormones, and then turned to compounding pharmacists to fill their prescriptions. This put the drug companies on the defensive most especially Wyeth, whose annual sales plummeted by more than a billion dollars. In 2006, Wyeth filed a Citizen Petition with the FDA requesting that compounding pharmacies be prohibited from providing natural hormones.

The FDA received tens of thousands of e-mails protesting this move. The grassroots efforts of citizens and advocates in the health freedom movement are making a huge impact on this legislative effort. We've already managed to delay the voting on the bill from early this week to next week. This move to crack down on compounding pharmacies through federal legislation. Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA), Pat Roberts (R-KS), and Richard Burr (R-NC) have drafted a bill (Safe Drug Compounding Act of 2007) that would jeopardize your right to get bioidentical hormones and other medications from compounding pharmacies.

These guys seem to believe that the bureaucrats at the FDA, rather than you and your doctor, should decide what drugs are best for you. You’ve got to wonder why this bill was written, given the FDA’s dismal record in protecting the public against dangerous drugs in recent years. If I were a betting man, I’d wager that Wyeth and other pharmaceutical companies are behind it. Rest assured, this move is not coming from the public.

No one has come forward with evidence that compounded drugs have any outstanding risks of side effects. This is purely a move to eliminate competition for patented hormones and other drugs. This nonsense must be stopped. Contact your US senators as well as Sen. Kennedy, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and make a case against this bill. For more information, visit whitakerhealthfreedom.com.