The US is top of the list of most important drug (medicine) manufacturing countries, which has 16 large pharmaceutical factories. These factories produce more than $ 45516 million worth of medicines annually. After the United States is Germany with four major pharmaceutical factories, produce more than $6866 million worth of medicines annually.
Faraan: The global drug trade began in the second half of the twentieth century. And Subsequently the big Pharmaceutical companies established in the world. The pharmaceutical companies opened large factories to produce chemicals. Eight countries of the world; Germany, the United States, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, the United Kingdom and Japan began to produce about 80% of the world’s medicines.
Among the drug manufacturing countries of the world, the United States is the leading country, where 16 large pharmaceutical companies produce $ 45,514 million worth of drugs annually. It is followed by Germany, which has four major factories that manufacture $ 6866 million worth of medicines annually.
Germany is followed by Switzerland with $ 8974 million through three factories and the United Kingdom with $ 4323 million through four factories, followed by France, Japan, the Netherlands and Italy.
Statistics show that 32 pharmaceutical companies supply $ 35 billion worth of drugs to the world market annually. Hundreds of tons of chemicals a year in the name of medicine including painkillers, antibiotics, headache medicines, etc, are inserted / injected to the human bodies. These chemicals are distributed in the world under the name of thousands types of medicines and unimaginable profits are made from this trade in the world trade market.
Most of the medicines offered in imperialist capitalist societies are tested not only on animals but also on the nations and sometimes on their own people.
But the real rats for drug experiments are the unaware people of the Third World, especially women and children. Involved in this crime are the doctors, hospitals and institutions who prescribe these drugs in exchange for bribes [OR free drug samples for physicians] and then end test results to the pharmaceutical companies.
These types of tests, which are performed secretly and without the patient’s knowledge, not only cause many serious problems for patients in many cases but sometimes even lead to the death of the patient.
An example of this is the Indian medicine market. According to an official report, in 1984, 46% of the drugs provided by the international pharmaceutical companies and used in India, were expired drugs.
In the early 1970s, thousands of types of drugs and vitamins were introduced in the Indian medicine market, including excessive quantity of alcohol, and those who used these drugs once or twice became addicted. And in this way the evil trade was well established.
In the early 1970s, thousands of types of the drugs and vitamins were distributed in the Indian medicine market in such a way that alcohol was used excessively and those who used these drugs once or twice became addicted. And in this way the evil trade was well established.
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Source: Iraj Tabrizi, Evil Trade, p. 163
