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Big Pharma Promoting Highly-Addictive Schedule-III Painkiller Drugs to Little Boys

By Mike Adams, November 14, 2008 | Key concepts: Painkillers, Drug addiction and Drug marketing

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Big Pharma is promoting Zamicet, a schedule-III painkiller (like a highly-addictive narcotic that would land you in prison if you sold it on the street) to treat young boys. This is the implication of a new ad (see below) in which a young boy in a karate outfit appears in the Zamicet ad.

Drug companies, it appears, will sell anything to anyone, including infants, toddlers and young boys. It's not enough to drug them on Ritalin and SSRIs, now they need powerful painkilling narcotics, too!

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Big Pharma Promoting Highly-Addictive Schedule-III Painkiller Drugs to Little Boys


From Pharmalot.com: Two months ago, Hawthorn Pharmaceuticals launched Zamicet, an oral solution approved by the FDA to treat moderate to moderately severe pain for children two years and older. Zamicet, which contains hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen, is also a controlled substance and is listed as a Schedule III drug, which means it is highly addictive (see prescribing info).... more

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