I called Canada's only maker of Sinemet a company called Apotex, and they said that they have entirely halted production of Sinemet because they are "undergoing re-organisation" and because the market is flooded with cheap Sinemet from China and Canadian workers won't work so cheap. They claimed to be unaware that production lines have been closed in other countries, and the world-wide shortage will last two years - it was news to them that their production shut down at the same time as in other countries - who would have guessed? Oh, and they said they halted production and recalled what was on the shelves. True or not; makes no sense. A recall? Also said they might re-start production in a few months, but Health Canada takes a long time to approve.... new packaging? new production line?
If they are shutting down production in this obviously co-ordinated manner from country to country because of the flood of cheap Sinemet from China, then where is the flood? How is a world-wide shortage caused by a flood of cheap imports?
I called Health Canada and asked lots of questions and they said they would get back to me. They also did not seem to be aware that production is being shut down in places other than Canada. All at the same time.
What is needed is criminal prosecution to at least attempt to bring out the truth. If it is not actual gangsterism, at the very least it is criminal negligence causing bodily harm.
Get a huge population addicted to a drug without which they can't function, and then pull the plug on them. Zero explanation. Synchronized destruction of production in different countries is not something that can be blamed on China. Something else is going on, and what we need is police raids followed by energetic criminal prosecution. They do not fear billion dollar fines for criminal activity, they do not fear billion dollar pay-offs to silence people they injured: they just add it to the cost of the drug. The only thing they would fear would be prosecution for a series of crimes, such as reckless endangerment, criminal negligence resulting in bodily harm, racketeering, price fixing; with luck the withdrawal from the drugs will not actually kill people, otherwise, what was the title of that book....."None dare call it manslaughter." They fear nothing so far; facing 20 years in penitentiary might improve the accuracy of future press releases.
It would be wise at this point for Merck or one of the Parkinson's orgs to come forward with an explanation, or at least some new lies that have a bit more credibility than the old lies. It would be interesting to have an accurate time line about where and when and why the production of an essential drug was curtailed, and why it takes two years of people suffering before they can crank out the same addictive pills they have been selling us for half a century.
There is an element of information missing here. Something is not being said.. It's all very amusing until someone gets hurt.