Canadians are willfully blind to the lethal risks of prescription drugs, which kill people “every day” through side effects, even at proper doses, according to a Conservative MP.
“All drugs are poisons,” Terence Young told a packed audience this week at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. “The only difference between a drug and a poison is dosage.”
By suppressing data about risk, clogging Parliament Hill with lobbyists, and bribing doctors with lunches and gifts, drug companies have conspired to keep blockbuster drugs on the market long after their dangers were known, he said.
