Amphetamine Isomer BMPEA Mimics Powerful Stimulant Amphetamines Is Still Found In U.S. Stores As Industry-Dominated F.D.A. Under Attack For Failure To Act Even Months After Canadian Authorities Pull BMPEA Stimulant

     Wednesday, 8 April 2015, NEW YORK, NY - The amphetamine isomer BMPEA nearly identical to amphetamines and first synthesized in the early 1930's as an amphetamine alternative which allegedly mimics amphetamine effects and poses some of the same dangers yesterday was identified in several dietary supplements currently for sale in U.S. vitamin and nutrition stores labelled under the plant name Acacia Rigidula in a study led by Dr. Peter A. Cohen an assistant Harvard professor published yesterday in the journal Drug Testing And Analysis. 
     The New York Times Well Blog by Anahad O'Connor (not identified as a physician) dated late yesterday with a version published in today's New York Edition of the paper at page A1 under the headline "Study Warns of Diet Supplements Kept Quiet By F.D.A." identifies some of the supplements including photographs of products apparently still on U.S. store shelves including the amounts of BMPEA each contains for consumers concerned that the reportedly industry dominated United States Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.) is allowing dangerous supplements still to be sold on U.S. store shelves (as well as presumably on the internet).
     Canadian health authorities in December 2014 pulled the BMPEA-containing supplement "JetFuel Superburn" from store shelves calling the chemical BMPEA a "serious health risk" although the below-linked article identifies the supplement apparently still for sale as late as yesterday as well as JetFuel T300 and MX-LS7 identified in the above study at the article's singled-out Vitamin Shoppe (presumably because the article's author did not have time to visit all vitamin and supplement stores to check if they also sold it). The study in addition listed Aro Series Burn, Black Widow, Dexaprine XR, Fastin-XR, Lipodrene Hardcore, Lipodrene Xtreme, Stimerex-ES and Yellow Scorpion as containing BMPEA. All are pictured in the below-linked article with the number of grams per serving shown under each.
     BMPEA reportedly is closely related in physiological characteristics to DMAA described as an "amphetamine-like stimulant that can cause heart attacks and strokes", as presumably can any amphetamine or amphetamine isomer. DMAA was banned by the U.S. Department of Defense from military bases in 2011, and the FDA issued a health warning about the chemical DMAA sixteen months after Australia, Britain, Canada and Sweden banned it.
     Interested readers may find at the below link significantly more information on the above as well as an examination of an F.D.A. history of allegedly industry-dominated decisions made by F.D.A. officials apparently in the industry-government "revolving door" criticized as dominating many federal agency decisions. Readers wishing to go directly to the Drug Testing And Analysis study published yesterday can go to the second link below which link also is contained in the text of the first link directly below.
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http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/study-warns-of-diet-supplement-dangers-kept-quiet-by-f-d-a/?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dta.1793/abstract

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Fentanyl Narcotic Heroin Additive Nationwide Alert Issued By U.S. DEA

     Tuesday, 31 March 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters on 18 March 2015 issued a nationwide alert on the Schedule II narcotic anesthetic/analgesic fentanyl and analogs which reportedly are 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin according to DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart who also states that the euphoric effects of fentanyl are indistinguishable from morphine and heroin.
     Ms. Leonhart states that fentanyl is potentially lethal at doses as low as 0.25 milligrams. The Ninth Amendment does note that the drug not uncommonly is prescribed by pain control specialists including as patches for controlled release through the skin. Fentanyl may be laced into heroin and can be extremely dangerous by injection having been known to kill even anesthesiologists who given more ready access to fenatanyl have abused it and overdosed and according to at least one physician have in some cases even been found dead while on duty in hospitals with syringes still in their arms.
     The DEA warning was issued largely because nationally "heroin abuse has increased". Ninth Amendment field reporters confirm that in fact by all appearances a renewed heroin epidemic affecting all "classes" of society has been sweeping across the United States. This has been recognized individually by a rapidly growing number of states left to face the consequences of the problem but seemingly has not yet been publicly recognized by the United States government. CNN's Anthony Bordain in his "Parts Unknown" series while reporting one heroin ravaged upstate New York community where he attended a meeting of former addicts apparently identified himself as having been addicted and moreover also observed that a heroin epidemic has caught up not only traditional problem urban areas but small and rural communities stretching across the country without discrimination as to race or economic status.
     Reasons for this new heroin epidemic may include that not for the first time a hopefully well-intentioned DEA initiative has gone seemingly predictably badly awry in this case being the rescheduling of opiate medications widely prescribed in the United States with no effective followup or backup plan in the case of consequences unpredictable apparently at least to the DEA. The DEA is not a health agency but an enforcement agency like the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) both under the auspices of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
     The Ninth Amendment previously has reported in an earlier post for example on the DEA's years-long effort pressuring the independent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reschedule hydrocodone aka Norco aka Vicadin and other names apparently finally successfully resulting in later 2014 in the prescription medication's reclassification from Schedule III to Schedule II (with a six-month grandfathering exception into 2015 for patients with refillable prescriptions of the medication at the time of the rescheduling). At the time of the rescheduling hydrocodone was the second most prescribed medication in the United States after hypertension medications.
     Nationwide millions of former and present patients have become addicted to opiates in recent years by prescription medications from physicians who "Big Pharma" effectively through massive "promotional" bribery were convinced to suspend disbelief that opiates were addictive. At least one pharmaceutical company while hosting physicians to an all expenses paid week-long paid junket at an exotic location at one of the "teaching presentations" justifying the tax-free promotional holiday actually represented that obviously potentially highly addictive opiates posed less than a 1% chance of patient addiction. The aggressive efforts of big pharmaceutical companies to market opiates through physicians was wildly successful resulting in an unprecedented number of patients being prescribed them in various opium derived and synthetic opioid medications.
     Now with the changed regulatory climate many patients are finding themselves addicted to opiates as physicians effectively dump many of them on the streets as they try to distance themselves from intense scrutiny from the DEA, FDA or state medical boards according to more than one physician. This pressure has increased to the point of increased personal visits by federal drug agents extending according to one pharmacist even to pharmacies. Meanwhile many states have brought or joined lawsuits against the large pharmaceutical companies for their extreme marketing of drugs known to result in high addiction rates which are costing states hundreds of millions of dollars in health costs and untold potentially "ruined lives" of their citizens.
     The Ninth Amendment emphasizes "potentially" ruined lives as a reminder that as shown by Anthony Bourdain's above-referenced CNN "Unknown Parts" episode in which he sat in on a community meeting of former addicts where government assistance is completely lacking or unavailable there are others who have come to fill the vacuum or have long been there as in the case of Narcotics Anonymous (NA) and other similar groups. The Ninth Amendment does not purport to provide any medical advice whatsoever to anyone at all. Those in need of medical advice must seek it from a properly licensed health professional.
     Readers interested in more information on fentanyl and its analogs may go to the link directly below to the above-referenced DEA headquarters alert below although directed mainly to law enforcement is informative and also has a link to another DEA site section with apparently more scientific and/or medical background on fentanyl. Those who do not wish to visit the DEA site should be able easily to search for more information on fentanyl using their preferred search engine or the Wikipedia search function located here at the bottom section of the Ninth Amendment.

http://www.dea.gov/divisions/hq/2015/hq031815.shtml

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WebMD Long Sordid Record As Undisclosed Biased Tool Of Big Pharmaceuticals And Others Google-Supplied "Gadget" Yanked By Ninth Amendment Immediately Upon WebMD Bias Exposure

       Thursday, 19 June 2014, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Ninth Amendment sincerely apologizes to readers for any legitimacy WebMD may have been afforded by its Google "Gadget" WebMD presence on this site as it has come to the attention of the editorial board that WebMD has long been the subject of verified allegations that it operates with a complete lack of disclosure and no transparency whatsoever in the fact that it is nothing more than a "For Sale" totally pro-drug company biased operation which has taken in huge amounts of cash for drug companies whose medications it then has directed completely unknowing consumers toward to the extent that WebMD has been the subject of a Congressional investigation.
       When drug company advertising somewhat dried up WebMd took large amounts of U.S. readers' taxpayer money from the U.S. Government in order to give the appearance of unbiased support of Obamacare. It seems our most "transparent" President (a pretty tall order which he has no one to blame but himself for totally dishonestly claiming that title) cannot help but likewise enlist or rather pay off the least transparent but mistakenly once most highly regarded and visited web site which Americans where scammed into turning to for what seemed "to good to be true", and was, free medical advice. About as helpful as turning for advice to all those horrific prescription medicine ads the FDA true to its morally bankrupt history has allowed to deluge the public airways.
       Speaking of which it turns out that WebMD also has received many millions of dollars from the FDA itself discredited for dissuading the people of this country from using time-tested natural remedies and  promoting drugs which often turn out to have horrific "side effects" which somehow never came to light. Readers may learn why if they ever ask their pharmacist for the true drug information sheet which must come with all cases of prescription medicine in the form basically of tissue paper that folds out to something the size of a billboard in tiny print. If readers examine the numbers of persons actually able to survive it through the studies on which the FDA (iall costs paid by the pharmaceutical companies) approves medications readers will find that often barely a handful make it to the end of a study before the FDA approves a drug that then may be used by millions of persons.
       A final note on the absolute hypocrisy of the FDA. In the 1980's the Administrator of the FDA found that the drug MDMA in a final determination did not meet the requirements of no known medical or research value such that it therefore could not be placed in Schedule I. Yet at the same time the latest chemical sweetener to be developed by Searle known as aspartame was found by the FDA to cause too high a risk of brain cancer and was to be banned. Well would readers not know that shortly after that Ronald ("McDonald") Reagan became the first brain-dead President elected since Warren Harding.
       He within days reversed the FDA Administrator's determination on MDMA ("ecstasy") and ordered it placed in Schedule I on an emergency basis (no public comment) while meanwhile to the delight of one of his new cabinet members who happened to have just resigned his position as President of Searle within days of joining the new Administration Ronald (McDonald) Reagan agreed to have the FDA rush new tests on aspartame and lo and behold within weeks it was no longer banned but declared perfectly safe such that it was on readers' supermarket shelves and being dumped into all kinds of foods and beverages within the month in time to the likely severe detriment of millions of Americans' well-being. As it turned out Ronald (McDonald) Reagan had been consuming large quantities of homemade aspartame since he was a child and he after all turned out practically to be perfectly fine with no sign of no brain cancer at all.
       One last tidbit about what a load of garbage the FDA and all its pharmaceutical and law enforcement chums have hoisted on Americans forever is that one just need take a look at the story of one horribly vilified "date rape" drug known as GHB the only problems for starters being that it is naturally occurring in the human body which one would think might make prosecuting possession a bit of a problem at least in some legal systems. The second being that it has been very widely and safely used for years in Europe and throughout the world as an anesthetic, a sleep aid that some have said is the best sleep aid they have ever had leaving them clear-headed, well-rested, and often even needing less sleep before being able to do more mental and physical activity and even exercise that seem indisputedly to more quickly result in healthy muscle development.
       In any case the DEA of course needed its latest hysteria to keep it in business as always, and with the help of a few well-publicized anecdotes, well what did Americans know but the naturally-occurring human growth hormone that had been sold for years in places like GNC and was well known to weightlifters and athletes has become the thing of living nightmares and of course headed for "emergency" scheduling as Schedule I, no known blah blah blah. Only problem was that it turned out to be the only effective substance for certain sleep disorders including serious narcolepsy, so what did the federal acronym gang come up with, well they simply allowed a single company to sell it in pharmacies under a trade name (the name escapes us but interested readers should be able to find it, possibly under the "R"s in about one minute) as schedule III, while it was simultaneously schedule I at the same time and voila disaster was diverted. It is not known if they had the NSA lawyers or the White House lawyers review and okay that one making the legally impossible fully possible with the stroke of a pen.
      The Ninth Amendment will save the story told on of all places "60 Minutes" about the drugs in regular use such as aspirin and even phenobarbital from well before the FDA even existed and which therefore had no authority to approve or disapprove those or many other drugs commonly used  -- as we understood it from the television program, and though may have gotten it all wrong and be totally confused we think not. (THIS IS NOT NOR DOES IT PURPORT TO BE LEGAL NOR MEDICAL ADVICE IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER. READERS MUST EXCLSUIVELY CONSULT A LEGAL PROFESSIONAL FOR LEGAL ADVICE AND A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL FOR MEDICAL ADVICE.) In any case in casual inquiries with pharmacists it has been our experience that as "60 Minutes" predicted many druggists are confused between what is known as the NDC number (?) and the actual FDA approval.
       Regardless as many of our readers know pharmacists are always right unless they are speaking directly to a doctor or as for the pathetic customer prescription unless they open the bag right there and dump their prescription out on the counter and actually count it out in front of someone behind the counter and carefully compare the visual appearance to the verbal description on the label.
       Because OTHERWISE ONE IS OUT OF LUCK even if one gets home with just one big square green pill for pets with the letter "A" on it but were supposed to get two hundred and twenty-five small white people ones with the number "178" on side and for example  "Screw You" on the back. (The number by the way is we understand how many dollars profit the pharmaceutical company makes per pill from the patient, the insurance company, or Medicare or Medicaid -- in the last case it is doubled.)
        Whatever that green pill is readers better make it last the month or whatever because the PHARMACIST DOES NOT EVER MAKE A MISTAKE WITH THE PATIENT and ONE'S DOCTOR IS NOT INTERESTED IN ONE'S ABILITIES AT CREATIVE STORYTELLING BECAUSE SHE HAS ONE GOOD ONE FOR THE PATIENT CALLED "DRUG DIVERSION" AND ALREADY HAS THE FDA, DEA AND STATE MEDICAL BOARD all breathing down her neck poring over her medical records for weeks on end of full work days (four-and-a-half hours minus lunch) just because of SUCH UNGRATEFUL PATIENTS  -- and incidentally illegally practicing medicine but we will not get into that here.
       In any case WebMD get off our page and good riddance you sell-out pharmaceutical pigs and good riddance again. As for Google well Google no longer has any excuse whatsoever. And MIT had such high hopes for Goog;le. Well it sure is no Noam Chomsky that has become clear. Just shows anyone can go to the dogs. . . .  May Google one day have a Chromebook in the hands of some wacko talking to the parking meters so Google can track their every move and thought for the next ten years. Market that then sell the information to partner CIA -- sounds like a fine opportunity for the first candidate for MK-ULTRA-II. . . .

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BREAKING - FDA Finally Caves To Drug Enforcement Agency Latest Policy Disaster Scheme To OK Top Medical Criminal Tier For Vicodin, Lortab Hydrocodone Painkillers

       Friday, 25 October 2013, WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a probable major victory for the DEA in its relentless "battle" to stay alive and ever expand in a nearly 40-year-long ceaselessly losing "war" of its own creation former drug-dealing President Barack Obama's FDA has given the "bombs away" signal for moving long-term painkillers brand names like Vicodin, Lortab (hydrocodone plus totally unnecessary amounts of acetominophen at DEA urging to insure destruction of as many living human livers as possible - a la paraquat, or aspirin) up to the highest tier of prescription medications along with morphine, oxycontin and amphetamines as soon as early next year.
       The DEA as usual follows in the footsteps of its predecessor Federal Bureau of Narcotics infamous for its Chief Harry Angslinger amongst other things (despite not being a doctor last we heard) awarding a lifetime prescription of morphine to former American Congressional hero Senator Joseph McCarthy conveniently refillable at will at the nearest Capitol Hill Pharmacy. If its latest ill-conceived  policy foray is enacted the DEA may have a chance at one-upping its relatively recent drugdealing fed rivals at the CIA ("birth of crack cocaine") outfit, although Afghanistan may present some intriguing opportunities for both drug-dealing agencies. Singer-songwriter Elvis Presley was named an official "special" drug-fighting agent just to demonstrate how seriously the former President Nixon took his completely insincere cynically announced "War on Drugs". Nixon awarded an official badge at the White House for Presley's drug-fighting efforts. Presley later died on the toilet during a drug overdose.

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BREAKING NEWS Thursday, October 24, 2013 4:02 PM EDT

F.D.A. Seeks Tighter Control on Prescriptions for Class of Painkillers

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday recommended tighter controls on how doctors prescribe the most commonly used narcotic painkillers.

The move, which represents a major policy shift, follows a decade-long debate over whether the widely abused drugs, which contain the narcotic hydrocodone, should be controlled as tightly as more powerful painkillers such as OxyContin.

The drugs at issue contain a combination of hydrocodone and an over-the-counter painkiller like acetaminophen or aspirin and are sold either as generics or under brand names like Vicodin or Lortab. Doctors use the medications to treat pain from injuries, arthritis, dental extractions and other problems.

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