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Help Stop Slanderous Comments About Salem-News.com

Please help us put an end to this misguided, slanderous criminal who is attempting to deface our five years of hard work. We will prevail and the sooner the better.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Oregon, California and Washington have legal medical marijuana programs. The big money pharmaceutical companies don't like it, and they especially don't like our recognition of medical cannabis.

So, at least one individual is trying to undermine this small media company by calling our advertisers and telling them we "promote drug use" which is a slanderous lie. We do not promote drug use, the only thing we provide credible information about is medical marijuana.

Purdue Pharma Marketing to Physicians About Their `Attitudes`

It is an attack on professionalism.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - So now we have the Internet used as a marketing tool by Purdue Pharma posting something as ludicrous as physicians prescribe narcotics based on the attractiveness of their patients.

These are the same physicians Purdue Pharma only a few years ago was convincing that their blockbuster drug OxyContin was less addictive than other narcotics.

Frances Oldham Kelsey, PhD, MD An American Hero

Time to slow down and honor those who made a difference, before the big pharmaceutical companies had control.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - For those not familiar with the name Frances Oldham Kelsey, she became nationally famous in 1962 when she prevented the sedative drug Thalidomide from entering the United States. Thalidomide was found to have caused birth defects in 10,000 European children in the late 1950s and early 1960s. For preventing an American Thalidomide tragedy, Kelsey was awarded the government's highest civilian award, the President's Distinguished Federal Civilian Service Award.

Kelsey's civil service career began in August, 1960, when she became a medical officer for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). After one month on the job, Kelsey was asked to review what was expected to be a simple and routine marketing application for Thalidomide. Thalidomide, a sleep inducer, had been developed in West Germany in the 1950s, and was widely marketed in Europe; belief in its safety was so widespread that the drug was available without prescription.

A Wolf in Sheep`s Clothing

Though he backed down, our writer was threatened with "Witness Tampering" by a Kentucky deputy AG over exposing a $50k payment from an OxyContin manufacturer.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - The victims of OxyContin in every state in the country as well as Canada should be aware of an event that occurred recently in Kentucky.

An Open Letter to Victims of OxyContin

Battling criminally convicted pharmaceutical companies.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - In my years of exposing Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, for criminally marketing their drug, I have never been disappointed in their efforts to gain revenue in their promotion of the drug.

Losing a Loved One to Hillbilly Heroin - OxyContin -

I will work very hard to have OxyContin reclassified for severe pain and in the process make Purdue Pharma shudder. I do it for my daughter Jill and the scores of victims of OxyContin.

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - For the past seven plus years I have been learning everything I can about Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and what I have learned has caused me to know the true meaning of the word evil.

You see seven years ago, I lost my only daughter - Jill at 29 years old. She had the misfortune of being prescribed OxyContin for a herniated disc.