If you're looking for a dramatic example of the dangers
of prescription drugs and yet another case of bad medicine,
look no further than this story. If it can be believed, a
woman's allergic reaction to a common antibiotic caused her
skin to start sloughing off. It should come as no surprise
that this condition is being reported as 100% fatal, yet
this woman miraculously survived.
As a nation, we're doping up our kids on an ever-increasing
array of dangerous prescription drugs. With millions of children
already taking a powerful narcotic (Ritalin), now millions
more are being dose with expensive drugs that alter brain
chemistry and have been clearly shown to cause children to
engage in violent acts and commit suicide.
Even familiar herbs offer potent healing abilities: garlic,
parsley, sage, ginger, basil and rosemary all offer positive
healing effects without the dangerous negative side effects
often associated with prescription drugs. And yet the healing
potential of these herbs goes way beyond the simple uses
mentioned here. Garlic is useful for far more than lowering
cholesterol; it's also a potent anti-cancer therapy. Taken
internally (by eating garlic cloves or drinking garlic juice,
preferrably raw), garlic has been shown to shrink tumors
in the breast, stomach and colon. Used externally as a paste
applied to surface tumors, garlic simply destroys them, causing
many to fall off in a matter of days or weeks.
A growing number of people are purchasing prescription drugs
that have been reimported from Canada. This practice bypasses
the drug company monopoly that now has a strangehold on customers
in the United States, allowing customers to have access to
the very same prescription drugs at a fraction of the cost.
The practice drives the pharmaceutical industry absolutely
crazy, of course, which is why they've fought bitterly against
it. The FDA, always watching out for the pharmaceutical industry,
has engaged in all sorts of Nazi-like tactics to shut down
drugs from Canada and scare people into avoiding them.
The headlines are ablaze with results from a new study that
shows raising levels of your good cholesterol may take no
more effort than popping a daily pill. But what the headlines
don't mention is that this so-called "groundbreaking" study
involved no more than twenty people! When a sample size that
small, the results are probably not even statistically significant.
Here's a must-read article for anyone interested in learning
how the pharmaceutical industry really operates. It's a case
of aggressive marketing gone bad, with a mixture of corrupt
physicians, underhanded payola and a near-total disregard
for patient health. And yet it's business as usual in the
pharmaceutical industry: drug maker Schering-Plough, one
of the largest drug companies in the world, has been outright
bribing physicians to prescribe drugs and operate sham clinical
trials.
The situation is even worse than we feared: not only is
the Bush Administration conspiring with pharmaceutical companies
to defraud American consumers by banning the importation
of lower cost prescription drugs from other countries (notably,
Canada), but the administration is actually forming trade
agreements with other countries that would make it illegal
for those countries to import lower cost medications as well!
It's all part of the Republican/pharmaceutical drug racket
designed to control the world drug market and exploit consumers
for every last dollar. And it's working.
When observing the state of modern medicine and the unprecedented
influence of pharmaceuticals, an interesting paradox arises.
The drug companies claim that pharmaceuticals can do wonders
for people: lower their cholesterol, end clinical depression,
reverse osteoporosis, eliminate allergies, calm your children
and many other similar promises. But if prescription drugs
are so good for people, where are all the healthy medicated
customers?
At the turn of the 20th century, radioactive products were
thought to be good for you. Manufacturers made, marketed
and sold products like radioactive tablets (designed to give
you more energy!), radioactive water storage containers,
and even radioactive bottled water. Many of the people behind
the marketing and hyping of these products, by the way, were
physicians. (A few decades later, physicians were also spokespeople
for cigarette companies and touted the "health benefits" of
smoking cigarettes...)
The FDA is losing its battle waged against the pocketbooks
of American consumers: people are importing more prescription
drugs than ever, and they're getting them from Canada, Mexico
and even the U.K. This concerns the FDA, of course, which
has gone all out to protect the profits of Big Pharma by
attempting to monopolize the U.S. drug market in much the
way that the Chicago mob from a hundred years ago tried to
control the flow of alcohol. |
