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According to IMS Health, a pharmaceutical consulting company, over the past decade the usage of prescription drugs by Americans has increased by 2/3rds to an incredible 3.5 billion prescriptions per year. Additionally, IMS Health reports that their polling finds that Americans devour even more nonprescription drugs.
Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and author of "The Truth About the Drug Companies", commented, "We are taking way too many drugs for dubious or exaggerated ailments." He continued, "What the drug companies are doing now is promoting drugs for long-term use to essentially healthy people. Why? Because it's the biggest market."
Clinical Case Study (http://www.chiropracticresearch.org/NEWS_Americans%20Take%20More%20Drugs%20Than.htm - broken link)
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How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs
The tragedy lies not with the medicines but with the marketing and the unprecedented power these companies now have over the practice of medicine. We’ve come to a time when decisions on how to treat a disease have as great a chance of being hatched in a corporate marketing department as by a group of independent doctors working to improve the public’s health. In too many cases, whether a medicine helps or harms a patient has become secondary to how much it will bring shareholders in profits. That is the story of this book, the one that doesn’t get told.
Who convinced Americans that their bodies couldn't work properly? Who said their bodies can't heal themselves? Do Americans blame themselves for being/getting sick or is the blame always somewhere "out there"? Apparently there are Americans who know they are abusing their body but are comfortable with the idea that a drug will come along to treat their condition so they don't have to change their behavior. Americans are far more mentally ill than our overuse of medications suggests.
The pharmaceutical companies' sole motivation is profit and control. They will invent drugs and then invent the disease it supposedly treats. Notice how nothing is ever cured, just treated. If they cured a disease, there'd be no profit!
Know your body. Eat well. Exercise. Rest. And tell your Western-style doctor who pushes a prescription your way to shove it.
Too many people think a pill will heal anything and too many doctors agree. We were talking about this yesterday. For those of you who are younger, you will one day come to the stage where your lab tests will show you are defeciet (speilling) in Vit D, so doc will subscribe it for you. Now, until a year or so ago, very few took Vit D, now 1/2 the people over 65 do. I could go on and on. We all remember, until a few years ago blood pressure below abut 140 over 80 was considered acceptable, now the nice doc tells us we should take meds if it isn't below 120 over 60. Some will let you slide with 130 over 65. Believe I could go on and on.
my mom 86 took to many drugs.most for side effects of the primary drugs. i convinced her to see another doctor and try to get off some of them. she is now 100% off her drugs for the last year and a half and enjoying life
Many sheeple remain in a half slumber. They do that to avoid admitting that Communist China has a harness on the nation. Still, they are able to navigate to the nearest Wal Mart, and look for the "ultimate shiny object."
It was probably a mistake when the FDA permitted pharmaceutical companies to advertise prescription drugs on television.
If I'm not mistaken the USA is the only country that allows this kind of marketing. Disgusting!
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