https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2019/09/05/fda-fast-tracking-unproven-drugs-to-public.aspxAlthough the Food and Drug Administration's Accelerated Approval Program was created in 1992 to speed up the approval of new drugs, new research reveals a large number of drug manufacturers are failing to complete the approval process, according to aenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Debug Build: 31106.3070)https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2019/09/05/fda-fast-tracking-unproven-drugs-to-public.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#9639149/6/2019 10:59:28 AM24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:963914rrealrose<p>Despite tweets of mistaken or just bad timing, President Trump has been known to say intelligent things in other areas. The amount of big pharma money and influence in American politics and in the US Congress is truly staggering. &nbsp;Here&#39;s a link to a 2017 article of note: <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/19/big-pharma-money-lobbying-us-opioid-crisis">www.theguardian.com/.../big-pharma-money-lobbying-us-opioid-crisis</a> &nbsp;- And here&#39;s a more recent 2019 opinion on this topic: <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/01/america-opioids-catastrophe-has-lessons-for-us-all-greed-racial-division">www.theguardian.com/.../america-opioids-catastrophe-has-lessons-for-us-all-greed-racial-division</a> </p>