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Commentary
The University News
September 7, 2016
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The role of FDA regulations in the Epipen price hike
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Greece’s continuing refugee crisis
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The spring 2015 Rome class worried that they might not be able to visit Greece as a
consequence of the ongoing refugee crisis.
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EpiPens contain necessary emergency medication for many people
with allergies, but they have become prohibitively expensive.
sick people.
If given the oppor-
Industry Organization tunity, it is a person’s
and BioMedTracker,
found that only one
in 10 drugs between
2004 and 2010 made it
billion and can
over a decade.
A lot of the time
and money goes to
passing the FDA’s ex-
tensive clinical trials.
According to a study
from the Journal of
the American Board
of Family Medicine,
only 1 in 5,000 to
10,000 drugs make it
from preclinical test-
more recent devel-
opments, let’s take
another look at what
was happening toward
the beginning of the
refugee crisis.
Greece has been
a key player in try-
ing to accommodate
the surge of refugees
since the beginning,
establishing camps on
the islands of Lesbos,
Chios and Samos for
those who have been
relocated from Tur-
key’s west coast and
the regions affected by
conflict.
However, looking
back, we can also note
that Greece has been
politically and eco-
nomically unstable for
years, if not decades,
especially if one con-
siders the Greek bail-
out crisis which was
more or less resolved
by the 2014 deal with
the EU.
The fall Rome
class of 2014 was in
The fact of the
matter is that while
this problem is not our
generation’s fault, we
are the ones who will
need to find solutions
and fix the problems
caused by earlier gen-
erations. If we don’t
pay attention to this
now, how will we know
how to fix the problem
later?
This issue could
affect anyone from
a politics major who
will have to figure out
how to balance out
the world of interna-
tional politics, to the
economics major who
will have to deal with
a sideways global mar-
ket, or an education
major who will need
to try to understand
his students’ compli-
cated backgrounds if
the U.S. begins taking
in more refugees once
Europe reaches max
capacity.
Before visiting the
the drug industry.
The FDA erects
barriers to entry
through regulations re-
quiring an extensive
application and testing
process for new drugs.
In 2014, Tufts Center
for the Study of Drug
Development estimated
that the cost of bringing
a new drug to the mar-
ket costs around $2.6
Athens several months
after the 2014 deal,
and the backlash of
this agreement was
still being felt. This
was demonstrated
most clearly by the
armed policemen in
many of the public
squares, u ndoubt-
edly placed there to
discourage public pro-
tests. The following
Rome class of spring
2015 may remem-
ber rumors that they
would not be able to
travel to Greece.
All this leads to
Greece being unpre-
pared to accept up-
wards of 160,000 mi-
grants in little more
than a year. Other
countries have been
helping as this mi-
grant crisis has devel-
oped, namely Ger-
many and Turkey, but
these countries have
recently been having
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Europe was a huge
topic of discussion
both on campus and
in the wider world
but what has been
developing with this
issue since it slipped
down the ladder of
the general public’s
short attention span
for global crises?
While this issue
may seem old hat at
this point, the fact
that it is still an actual
problem that people
seem to be forgetting
about is a serious mat-
ter. If people start
becoming apathetic
about the issue, it will
be harder to find long-
term solutions to the
problem.
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John McDonald business would do given
Contributing Writer
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has been
A under a
lot of scrutiny in recent
months.
Former GEO of
the continued safety
concerns.
“It is kind of fun-
ny that it happened
right under the po-
lice’s] noses, it made
me feel the police
aren’t really doing
anything there,” Rut-
ledge said. “I come
home from work, and
they are sitting out-
side my apartment at
two in the morning.
They are there during
the night when all the
most illicit activity is
happening.”
Exercise cau-
tion when traveling
around Tower Village
at night, and be aware
of any suspicious per-
sons or activity.
Anyone who may
have any details con-
cerning the incident
of Aug. 11 is warmly
encouraged to contact
the Irving Police De-
partment.
response to an email
regarding the inci-
dent. “Irving Police
have it listed as under
investigation and will
not release any fur-
ther information.”
Riyanna Rut-
ledge, a resident of
Tower Village, has
realistic expectations
for the apartment
complex.
“I knew going
into Old Mill that I
wasn’t going to be
in the best neighbor-
hood,” Rutledge said.
“I take necessary pre-
cautions, but the no-
tice] didn’t make me
feel safe. It made me
more vigilant.”
Rutledge also
spoke to the discrep-
ancy between the fre-
quent police presence
in Tower Village and
their environment: a
near monopoly created
drug by the federal govern-
industry ment.
has been 4 his criticism
under a would be more aptly
directed towards the
Federal Drug Adminis-
tration (FDA), the gov-
Turing Pharmaceuti- ernment entity respon-
cal’s Martin Shkreli sible for creating the
outraged the American monopolistic market in
public when he raised
the price of the life-
saving drug, Daraprim,
from $13.50 to $750 a
tablet.
More recently, the
GEO of Mylan phar-
maceutical company
Heather Bresch, has
been criticized for grad-
ually raising the price
of the EpiPen, a self-
injectable device which
treats allergic reactions,
from about $50 per shot
in 2007 to $304 today.
Now, families must pay
over $600 for a pack of
two Epipens.
Many people, in-
cluding Hillary Clin-
ton and Bernie Sand-
ers, have railed against
Mylan’s actions, but to
whom should they re-
ally be directing their
animosity?
From a public poli-
cy standpoint, criticism
should not be given
to Turing and Mylan,
who were acting as any
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right to take a drug not
approved by the FDA to
cure an illness.
Pharmaceutical
from early stage Phase companies that already
I clinical trials to FDA own FDA-approved
approval. drugs have a large
advantage over those
competing drugs still
in clinical trials. For
example, the FDA re-
jected a generic ver-
sion of the EpiPen by
Teva Pharmaceuticals.
Currently, there is one
competing drug by the
name of Adrenaclick,
but it is not covered by
many insurance plans,
and the FDA made it il-
legal for pharmacies to
substitute Adrenaclick
as a generic version of
EpiPen.
Instead of protect-
ing the American pub-
lic, the FDA has stifled
innovation and com-
petition in the market-
place to the detriment
of the health and pock-
etbooks of the Ameri-
can people.
To decrease the
power that a few phar-
__companies
have on markets, the
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ing to the market. Fur- That is a lot of
thermore, according potentially life-saving
to another study done drugs that are kept from
by the biotech trade
group, Biotechnology
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