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Re: Side Effects of Prescription and OTC Drugs
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Prescription drug abuse may now be the top cause of accidental death in America
by PF Louis
(NaturalNews) The phrase "prescription drug abuse" allows Big Pharma to get away with too much, shifting the blame to stoners, druggies and youths who like to get their kicks from illegal prescriptions and black market OxyContin-type drugs that sell for high prices.
Death by Modern Medicine: Seeking Safe Solutions, written by Dr. Carolyn Dean, outlines the statistics and issues within several other categories of prescription drugs that have caused deaths despite being properly prescribed and used.
Dr. Dean's latest book has uncovered even more statistics of iatrogenic (medically caused) death than her original paper "Death by Medicine." The death toll has gone up to almost 900,000 annually from various areas that include hospital stays, surgeries, incorrect or unnecessary procedures and prescriptions.
But the highest death toll comes with adverse reactions from "correctly prescribed" medications and procedures. [1]
Over the counter drugs (OTC) haven't been included in these statistics, but OTC sleeping pills and Tylenol (acetaminophen) are responsible for many more ER visits and deaths. Also not included are permanent disabilities from vaccines and other drugs.
The numbers are probably worse than any statistical reports, as not all adverse reactions are actually reported.
Regardless of Dr. Dean's and others' offered solutions, the actual solution probably won't come until the whole edifice of the medical mafia finally crumbles with enough health-conscious people abandoning it, by self-educating and living healthier lifestyles while seeking natural medical solutions.
The prescribed painkiller quandary
Oxycodone is the main opioid ingredient of OxyContin, a synthetic offshoot of heroin. Oxycodone ingredients were once a last-ditch solution for usually terminal cancer patient pain when morphine failed. That was a couple of decades ago.
Since then, oxycodone opioids have been used in several prescription drugs that have been successfully marketed to overcome original resistance to prescribing potentially addictive painkillers. Now, they're being prescribed too often and too easily.
And the overdose death toll has skyrocketed to over 15,000, more than street heroin and cocaine combined. [2] [3]
By the way, late-stage cancer patients have used various forms of full-cannabinoid hemp (including THC) to relieve pain from cancer and cure it without addiction. It can't be patented, so Big Pharma wants to keep it from competing with its high-profit patented drugs, and it's still mostly illegal. But that's beginning to change, slowly.
In 2010, 254 million opioid prescriptions were filled in the USA. Shortly after that report, the CDC estimated that health insurers forked over several billion dollars for health care costs related to prescription painkillers' adverse effects.
Meanwhile, Big Pharma raked in over $11 billion in revenue from opioid sales, with Purdue Pharma's OxyContin, for which they were once fined $635 million for false advertising, pulling in over $3 billion of that. [3]
So who are getting all these prescriptions? A lot of prescriptions, driven by oxycodone addicts, are obtained illegally or creatively. One such notorious, hypocritical example is Rush Limbaugh's incredible oxycodone, mostly OxyContin, addiction.
Hypocritical because, for a few years up until Limbaugh got busted for obtaining and using massive amounts of oxycodone through multiple doctor resources, he often railed on air about throwing drug users in jail, even while he was high on illegally obtained OxyContin. Suspiciously, the charges were dropped or reduced from felonies. [4]
Other painkillers, like Percocet, Vicodin and fentanyl, contain some variation of oxycodone, chemically close to heroin. But OxyContin is almost pure oxycodone. It's the strongest and most addictive. The others include either some aspirin or acetaminophen (Tylenol), also unhealthy with long-term use.
Even those who have experienced enough severe pain to warrant oxycodone become addicted and experience terrible withdrawals if they try to kick the painkillers. [4]
Sources for this article include
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[2]http://www.philly.com
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Re: Side Effects of Prescription and OTC Drugs
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Big Pharma Profiteering Gone Wild: $1,000-a-Pill Hepatitis Drug In USA Sells For Less Than $10 in Egypt
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) The financial raping of America by Big Pharma has just achieved a new milestone with the impending launch of a Hepatitis C drug that costs $1,000 a pill. If you've ever wondered why U.S. health care is so unaffordable and inaccessible -- and why health insurance costs are bankrupting businesses and municipalities across the nation -- this is exactly why. The same drug that sells for $1,000 a pill in the USA -- named "Sovaldi" -- sells for just $10 in Egypt, or 1/100th the USA price.
Drug companies are, of course, granted FDA-enforced monopolies on the treatment of anything considered a "disease." As such, drugs are pushed into the marketplace at monopoly prices. Because if you're the CEO of Gilead Sciences, Inc., makers of the Sovaldi drug to be sold at $1,000 a pill, your job is to maximize revenues by any means necessary. When you're handed a monopoly by the FDA, the strategy for achieving that is simple: Raise the price to whatever you can get away with, then bill the insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid for $100, $500 or even $1,000 a pill.
100,000% mark-up?
Even if one pill of Sovaldi only costs 68 cents to manufacture, it will still be sold at $1,000 a pill because that's what the company demands. At this price, a course of treatment runs $84,000 in the USA. Gilead reduces the price to $57,000 in the UK -- apparently in a completely arbitrary manner based on whatever it can get for the drug rather than the drug's actual cost or value.
How much does this drug actually cost to produce? Consider this shocking fact, as reported by CNBC:
Gilead confirmed that it had agreed to supply the new drug in Egypt - which has the world's highest prevalence of the virus due to use of contaminated needles in the 1970s - at around $900 for a 12-week course of therapy, or about 1 percent of the U.S. price.
Yep, the same drug sold in the USA for $84,000 is sold in Egypt for $900 -- and the company still makes a profit!
What we are likely looking at with this drug is something approaching a 100,000% mark-up. In any other industry, that would be called "profiteering."
Modern medicine exists to enrich big business, not to make people healthy
The entire U.S. health care system is, of course, set up to fill the coffers of big business. That's why U.S. health care ("sick care") is the most expensive in the world, by far, even though it produces poor overall results. More people are sick, obese and diseased in America today than at any other time in human history, yet we are all paying more for health insurance coverage. Why is that?
The honest answer is that we are paying higher and higher prices for drugs that simply don't work. At the same time, the FDA and Big Pharma are systematically discrediting natural cures that are safe, effective and affordable. Hepatitis C, for example, can readily be treated with plant-based bioflavonoids called catechin and naringenin, both of which are entirely non-toxic and have been scientifically proven to kill the Hepatitis C virus.
You can buy a lot of green tea and citrus fruits for the $84,000 cost of a drug treatment. In fact, you could buy and juice organic produce for years with that much money, and the juicing protocol would help prevent cancer, heart disease and diabetes at the same time, dramatically lowering overall health care costs.
But that's never been the goal of health care. There is no incentive for anyone to lower costs. Every incentive, in fact, is based on raising costs so that revenues and profits can be raised, too.
Anyone who expects the health care industry to lower its own costs is expecting the impossible. No for-profit business sector ever seeks to shrink in size and revenues.
Profits for the few, sickness for the masses
Why does the pharmaceutical industry push $1,000-a-pill drug treatments rather than affordable, safe and effective natural protocols like juicing and superfoods? Because, of course, the drugs make the most money.
The entire "sick care" industry is driven by profits rather than any real desire to help humanity. As a result, whatever makes the most money gets pushed onto the most patients. The billing for all this gets shoved over to health insurance companies which must then raise insurance rates to insane levels to cover all the ridiculously-high-priced drugs.
And that's how we end up with families paying $5,000 - $10,000 a year for health insurance coverage. In a system driven by pure greed, nobody gets healthy and everybody gets financially raped one way or another.
Trust me when I say America's economy will continue to implode as long as we allow this parasitic, monopolistic health care system to rape us all of our incomes, investments and small business profits. The main reason why U.S. companies are closing their doors and firing workers is because they can't afford to pay the exorbitant health insurance premiums!
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Re: Side Effects of Prescription and OTC Drugs
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Prescription drugs: A Nation's Killer
by Mayimina
(NaturalNews) In a nation that seems to thrive on popping pills for a range of different health woes, it really should come as no surprise that deaths due to the overdosing of prescription drugs are on the rise in the United States, and will likely to continue to be so. Though there is a definite need for a number of these prescription drugs, and they provide relief from pain, infections and a host of other uncomfortable ailments, history is starting to tell the story of how these medically prescribed medications can be abused by patients. Many physicians, too, simply write a prescription as a cure-all for their patients rather than spend the time and make the effort to get to the root cause of the issue.
Sobering statistics
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released some sobering and chilling statistics. More than 36,000 people across the country died in 2008 as the result of overdosing on various prescription drugs. In fact, these deaths have more than tripled in number since 1990, and they show no signs of abating. Each day, 100 people in the United States die from drug overdoses.
Painkillers are the main killers
As the CDC notes, there are a number of prescription drugs that are abused by people who live in the United States. By far, though, there is a growing epidemic that involves painkillers. Studies show that out of every four death that occurred as the result of prescription drugs, three of them are the result of painkillers.
Also known as opioid pain relievers, this class of drugs is solely responsible for the 300% increase in drug-related deaths that has occurred since 1999. In 2008 alone, pain killers were the cause of nearly 15,000 overdose deaths. This figure is more than both heroin and cocaine combined.
Deaths are not the only result of such overdoses. In 2009, more than 475,000 visits to hospital emergency rooms occurred as the result of people overdosing on prescription drugs. This figure represents a number that almost doubled in five years.
A study in 2010 revealed that over 12 million people in the United States used painkillers on a non-medical basis. These are drugs that are supposed to be available only by prescription from a licensed doctor. However, the study participants indicated that either they were using these drugs without having a valid prescription or they were using them simply because they wanted to experience the feelings they evoke.
Other factors
In many cases, those people who abuse prescription painkillers are also using other drugs. These vary from drugs that are legal, such as alcohol, to those that are illegal, such as cocaine, benzodiazepines or heroin. In around 50% of these overdose deaths, the person is also taking another drug. Alcohol is often the second drug involved.
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Re: Side Effects of Prescription and OTC Drugs
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Suicides Among Patients Taking Antidepressants On The Rise Despite Black Box Warnings
by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
(NaturalNews) The damaging effects of America's most popular class of pharmaceutical drugs, antidepressants, are highlighted in a new study out of Harvard University. Researchers there found that suicides, particularly among teens, have risen dramatically in recent years, despite U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirements that antidepressants carry the strictest "black box" warnings about the potential for deadly side effects.
The study found that, since the FDA black box warnings were applied back in 2003 and 2004, the number of attempted suicides among adolescents has risen by nearly 22 percent. Among those between the ages of 18 and 29, attempted suicides rose a shocking 33.7 percent, a figure that the mainstream media is now blaming on a corresponding 31 percent decrease in antidepressant use during the same time.
Published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the Harvard study looked at insurance claims data from 11 different companies, analyzing the number of drug poisonings that may have been associated with suicide attempts. Based on this data, Christine Lu, an instructor at Harvard's Pilgrim Health Care Institute and lead author of the study, determined that suicide rates jumped among young people who had been taking antidepressants.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), some 11 percent of Americans over the age of 12 were taking antidepressants between 2005 and 2008, just a few years after the FDA issued warnings that antidepressant use among children, adolescents and adults could lead to suicidal thinking and behavior. Now, it is clear that this is precisely the case, especially when individuals suddenly stop taking the deadly drugs.
Antidepressants are deadly and should be avoided
Not surprisingly, the findings of this study are being perverted to suggest that the FDA warnings themselves, rather than antidepressant drugs, are responsible for the increase in suicides. But it is clear both from the warnings as they are written and the drugs as they are known to function in the brain that antidepressant drugs are dangerous and cause many who use them to suffer brain abnormalities that could lead to suicide and potentially even homicide.
"It's a stretch to say that the people that are committing suicide or the increase in suicide attempts has to do with the prescription of antidepressants," stated Marc Stone, a senior medical reviewer at the FDA, to Bloomberg in defense of the warnings. "There's absolutely nothing in the study to say that these are the people who would have been prescribed the antidepressants if it weren't for the warnings."
Stone has adamantly denied suggestions made by the media and even the study's authors that the FDA is somehow responsible for this increase in suicides, simply because it issued appropriate warnings to the public about their dangers. Antidepressants are known to induce chemical changes in the brain that oftentimes lead to pronounced increases in violent thoughts and behaviors. Such changes may include genetic mutations in the CYP450 gene family that result in major metabolic disturbances.
"SSRIs [selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors] are one of the most addictive drugs known" to man, stated one Bloomberg commenter. "[They] are several times more addictive than nicotine, heroin, cocaine, or even meth. This is an ideal situation for pharmaceutical companies, but not for patients."
Sources for this article include:
http://www.fiercepharma.com
http://www.dailymail.co.uk
http://www.bloomberg.com
http://www.fda.gov
http://science.naturalnews.com
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Re: Side Effects of Prescription and OTC Drugs
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Prescription Drug Use Now Causing More Driving Fatalities Than Alcohol
by L.J. Devon, Staff Writer
(NaturalNews) According to a study published in the Public Health Reports, driving under the influence of prescription drugs is becoming a large problem in society, causing more fatal driving accidents than ever before.
Today, driving fatalities due to driving under the influence of prescription drugs, including Xanax, Cymbalta, Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Lexapro, Sarafem and Abilify, are surpassing those caused by drunk drivers.
"While we've seen a decrease over the years in motor vehicle fatalities involving people under the influence [of alcohol], the nature of those crashes is changing," said study author Fernando Wilson, Ph.D., associate professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
How psychotic medicine logically increases risky driving behaviors
The study shows an alarming increase in motor vehicle accidents due to prescription drugs. The mind altering medications do not allow the person's mind to cope naturally with life's stressors and periods of depression. The prescription drugs quickly change the chemical levels in the brain (with the intent of a quick fix for depression or anxiety), but confuses the normal functions of the mind. The mind naturally tries to adapt to the quick changes and can become stressed in new ways, which confuses the natural state of the person's mind, predisposing them to act out of character. In a vehicle, this change could correlate to risky driving behaviors. According to some drug labels, suicidal behavior as a side effect could translate to violent driving patterns in a vehicle.
The use of multiple drugs increases the risk dramatically
The study investigated the characteristics of U.S. drivers involved in fatal crashes between 1993 and 2010. While drug use across the board increased significantly during that time, the percentage of impaired drivers with three or more drugs in their systems nearly doubled during that time, from 11.5% to 21.5%.
Drug use by older adults
A large number of fatal crashes came from prescription drug users (39%) who were 50 years or older. This trend correlates with the increasing reliance on prescription drugs by Americans.
According to the study, 90% of individuals 65 and older have prescription drug expenses.
The authors of the study hope that medical professionals begin counseling patients about the driving impairments posed by prescription drugs.
By 2010, prescription monitoring program were in place in 42 states. These programs, designed to curb illicit drug use and prevent overdoses, also focused on the overuse and abuse of prescription drugs.
Sources for this article include:
http://www.sciencedaily.com
http://app1.unmc.edu
http://publichealthlawresearch.org
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Re: Side Effects of Prescription and OTC Drugs
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These "medications" scientifically make you slower, dumber, and at greater risk for dementia
by Lance Johnson
(NaturalNews) True medicine does no harm and promotes self healing within. Modern medicine operates in the exact opposite manner. Nearly all pharmaceuticals mask symptoms while throwing off vital inner workings of various systems of the body. For instance, a specific class of drugs has been shown to make users slower and dumber, delaying their cognitive processes. On top of that, these drugs, which include some very common over-the-counter and prescription meds, scientifically put users at greater risk of dementia. These are the findings according to a new study from the University of Washington, Seattle.
These classes of drugs all fall under a class of anticholinergic medications. This includes antihistamines, sleep aids, cold medicine, and antidepressants. Anticholinergic meds work by blocking a neurotransmitter called acetylcholine. In doing so, these meds prohibit acetylcholine from naturally binding to its receptors in the brain. This slows cognitive processing, making the user slower to respond and dumber altogether.
Common antidepressants, sleep aids, anti-histamines, and cold meds cause cognitive dysfunction that leads to dementia
The University of Washington study tracked a large group of people who used anticholinergic meds every day for over three years. In a seven year follow up period, the researchers found that users were 10 percent more likely to receive a dementia diagnosis than those who didn't use the pills.
These findings help explain why common over the counter cold medications, antihistamines, prescription sleep meds, and antidepressants cause brain fog, impaired memory, and loss of attention span. It's simple. These meds destroy the natural science of the human brain, blocking an important neurotransmitter, ultimately resulting in cognitive dysfunction.
"It's possible that long-term use of these medications leads to changes in the brain similar to those seen with Alzheimer's disease, such as neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles," says study coauthor Sascha Dublin, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Dublin suggests that patients talk to their doctor about stopping these meds to find more productive options for healing that don't destroy cognitive function.
Choose a path to healing that does no harm
From experience, we know that quality vitamin D, Siberian ginseng, turmeric, green tea, passionflower, and oat straw are all helpful for nervous system healing and balancing. Supplementing with these herbs along with whole food zinc, selenium, and chromium can help one overcome the challenges of depression and insomnia without subjecting oneself to heinous psychotic and metabolic side effects of prescription psych meds, which only cause cognitive dysfunction and pharmaceutical dependence.
From experience, we know that colds and excess histamine production can be thwarted using a blend of medicinal herbal teas including but not limited to: licorice root, Echinacea, mullein, marshmallow root, elderberry, cats claw bark, and amalaki berry.
Subjecting oneself to over-the-counter cold medications and anti-histamines is an abusive practice that destroys cognitive function, memory, and attention. The above mentioned herbs are more effective long term and balance other systems of the body including the immune system and digestive system.
When we see modern medicine for what it really is, we learn to turn the other cheek and look into the infinite healing wisdom and depth of nature, nutrition, and the true healing energies within the Earth that restore our body systems without doing us harm.
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Re: Side Effects of Prescription and OTC Drugs
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600,000 Americans each consume more than $50,000 worth of pharmaceuticals annually, shocking analysis finds
by Jonathan Benson, staff writer
(NaturalNews) The real drug addicts in America today aren't out on the street begging for spare change; they're driving their children to soccer games, working in corporate offices, playing bingo in nursing homes, and attending church services weekly. Regular, everyday citizens, it turns out, are consuming more pharmaceuticals than ever, according to a new analysis, with a shocking 600,000 Americans each consuming the equivalent of $50,000 worth of drug pills annually.
An Express Scripts report entitled Super Spending: U.S. Trends in High-Cost Medication Use found that an estimated 576,000 Americans spent more than the media household income last year on legalized drugs. Everything from pain pills to psychiatric medications to cancer poisons make up what the report found to represent a 63 percent increase in pharmaceutical drug use compared to 2013 figures.
Most of the patients in this category were found to be taking "specialty" medications, having multiple co-morbidities, prescriptions, and prescribers. Nine out of 10 patients in the high-cost category take medications for multiple conditions, in fact, including drugs for conditions like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and depression. Antidepressant use within this category was exceptionally high, representing twice the use rate compared to the general population.
Shockingly, six in 10 patients in the high-cost drug category were found to be taking 10 or more different medications at one time, with 72 percent taking written prescriptions from at least four different prescribers. And perhaps not surprisingly, the bulk of patients in this category, some 58 percent, are "baby boomers," meaning they range in age from 51-70.
Nearly 140,000 Americans currently spend more than $100,000 each on pharmaceuticals every year
If you think spending $50,000 a year on drugs is bad, consider this: As many as 140,000 Americans each spend twice this amount every year on pharmaceutical sorceries, which is more than triple the number from 2013. Together with the 576,000 who each spend $50,000 annually, this represents a collective societal burden of $52 billion per year spent on drugs for just 716,000 people.
This figure is staggering, illustrating how American "sick care" is an unsustainable quagmire, and a scourge on society's collective purse. There's no reason why anyone should be spending this much money on "medication," and yet this is exactly how the system has been designed for the purposes of maximizing drug industry profits - get as many people as possible signed up to take the most expensive drugs, as do this as quickly as possible.
The top contenders, according to Express Scripts, are expensive "compounded therapies" like those sold for hepatitis C and cancer. Nearly two-thirds of drug spending among patients whose annual drug costs exceed $100,000 is spent on these therapies.
Most pharmaceutical drug addicts don't pay their own medical bills; taxpayers and others in the insurance "pool" do!
The folks actually paying this enormous bill, however, aren't the patients individually consuming $100,000 worth of pharmaceutical drugs annually. Insurance plans and employers, a.k.a. you and I and everyone else in the insurance "pool," are the real payers, as are taxpayers who fund Obamacare. The rest of the low-use, insurance-paying population, in other words, is inadvertently funding the high-use drug addicts who are draining the system with their expensive pharmaceutical treatments.
"Insurance plans and employers covered more than 98 percent of the costs for patients whose prescription drug bills exceeded $100,000 in 2014, paying an average of $156,911 of these patients' 2014 pharmacy costs," says Express Scripts.
"Patients within this highest-cost tier were responsible for less than 2 percent of their total 2014 pharmacy costs, paying an average $2,782 out-of-pocket in 2014. This reflects an annual decrease in the out-of-pocket percentage these patients paid in 2013."
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http://www.marketwatch.com
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Although this last post deals more with politics than health, the previous posts here are all a great warning that is probaly more important to the average person than all of our discussion on the ordination of women. In many cases women have more health sense than men, one more reason women should have the influence given them as serving our churches as ministers. Ellen White tells us these women should be ordained. Why not take her word for it?
"Here is a last piece of advice. If you believe in goodness and if you value the approval of God, fix your minds on the things which are holy and right and pure and beautiful and good. Model your conduct on what you have learned from me, on what I have told you and shown you, and you will find the God of peace will be with you."
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Doctors Criticized For 'Over-prescribing' Harmful Drugs For Patients Who Can Heal With Healthy Diet and Exercise
by L.J. Devon, Staff Writer
(NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical companies spend big money on advertisements to constantly brainwash people to "ask their doctor" how a pill is right for them. Even after listing several terrible side effects, these commercials are still convincing, planting a dangerous seed in the minds of onlookers. In this mental programming, people stop learning how to take care of their own health and instead start depending on the prescription drug model of disease fabrication and side effect perpetuation.
Health suddenly becomes a complicated maze that people start to feel trapped in. Patients seek out a doctor, not realizing the doctor's education and expertise is heavily influenced by pharmaceutical companies.
Pharmaceutical "science" destroying the foundations of health and the art of healing, pressuring doctors to become drug pushers
By controlling the advertising space, pharmaceutical companies buy out and control medical knowledge. These companies "seal the deal" for themselves when they pay off doctors and medical journals, bribing professionals to promote and prescribe their products. In this way of thinking, true prevention is redefined as "early diagnosis," and a steady prescription drug regime is praised as a lifesaving protocol.
This model of care teaches people to be submissive to experts' synthetic preparations. People are no longer their own doctors; instead, they are trained to be lifelong patients. Integrating the building blocks of nutrition is suddenly viewed as practicing "alternative medicine" when it's really the foundation of quality living.
A band of leading doctors at the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) is now highlighting these simple truths. Writing in the British Medical Journal, these leaders are now declaring that doctors are "over treating" patients with pills that are doing more harm than good. They also admit that patients are given unnecessary tests and pills by doctors who feel pressured to intervene. In other words, pharmaceutical "science" has complicated medical care and taken the foundation and art out of healing. Many pharmaceuticals have complicated the natural process of healing and turned doctors into drug dealers who are pressured by their drug overlords.
Patients are labeled with conditions when their problem is a simple imbalance that can be corrected through lifestyle changes
As the leaders point out, there are simpler, safer options that empower patients rather than burdening them, and these options are simply not being explored. They are being replaced by pharmaceutical brainwash and pressure. Doctors feel pressured to "do something" when a patient comes to them. This leads to unnecessary diagnoses and pill treatments that set off a cascading set of problems.
This overzealous medical culture suggests that "more is better," leading them to label patients with conditions that aren't really conditions at all. Health has become a mind game, and patients are being convinced by doctors, pharmaceutical companies and themselves that they have a problem when they really don't. A few simple adjustments in behavior or lifestyle could correct imbalances in body function, emotion and energy, but these simple adjustments are often overlooked.
The current medical culture values routine testing over intuitive care and listening to the body's signals. It values diagnosis and labeling over integrative approaches to correct imbalances. It values medical dependence and intervention over personal empowerment in the healing process.
Medical organizations to be retrained to identify unnecessary procedures and drug regimes
Leaders at the AoMRC are now launching the Choosing Wisely Campaign, which calls on medical professionals to identify five routine procedures that aren't necessary at their organization.
Examples include ending prescription drugging for mildly raised blood pressure and depression and halting routine and unnecessary blood tests.
Instead of drugging people who are depressed, Professor Dame Sue Bailey of the AoMRC suggests that patients should be led toward group exercise classes or talking therapies instead.
She suggests that frequent blood tests for elderly patients only distresses them more because of their frail skin. This is also true for newborns, especially when babies are separated from a breastfeeding mother to be pricked unnecessarily as doctors search for problems that aren't there.
Likewise, patients with elevated blood pressure can be counseled on lifestyle changes before they are made dependent on a pill for their imbalance. Perhaps a few circulatory system-enhancing herbs like hawthorn berry and garlic could correct the imbalance.
The new Choosing Wisely campaign, which is already underway in the U.S. and Canada, is also advising patients to ask questions such as:
◾Do I really need this test or procedure?
◾Are there simpler options?
◾What happens if I do nothing?
◾Is my diagnosis really just an imbalance that can be corrected without pharmaceutical intervention?
Sources:
http://www.bbc.com
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Legal, Over-the-counter Pain Relievers Cause Fatal Strokes And Heart Attacks
by David Gutierrez, staff writer
(NaturalNews) The FDA has announced that it will require new labels on both prescription and over-the-counter painkillers in the aspirin family, warning that even brief use of these drugs increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes, including among people with no heart disease risk factors.
The warning applies to all drugs in the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) family, with the exception of aspirin. Non-aspirin NSAIDs include those marketed under trade names such as Motrin, Aleve and Celebrex. The drugs are among the most widely used over-the-counter drugs, taken by millions each year in the United States alone.
But new research suggests that even small amounts can be deadly.
"One of the underlying messages for this warning has to be there are no completely safe pain relievers, period," said Bruce Lambert of Northwestern University, a specialist in drug safety communication.
Not "benign"
In its announcement, the FDA noted that NSAIDs have carried a boxed warning about the risk of heart attack and stroke since 2005. The new labeling rules, based on a further decade of research, strengthens those existing warnings.
Research has now shown that the risk of heart attack, heart failure or stroke can be increased even in the first weeks of NSAID use, and even among people with no prior heart disease risk. The risk is still much greater for those already at risk of heart attack or stroke, however. People who were given NSAIDs following a heart attack are also significantly more likely to die in the following year than people not given the drugs, studies have now shown.
The label will also specify that higher doses of NSAIDs lead to higher risks. It will note that different drugs may carry different risks, but that it remains unknown which are riskier. A clinical trial is currently under way to examine these variations.
Peter Wilson, an Emory University professor of medicine and public health, served on the FDA's expert panel to evaluate the evidence on NSAIDs and cardiovascular risks. While cautioning that individuals vary widely in their response to different drugs, he offered the following rule of thumb for estimating the risk from non-aspirin NSAIDs: Over-the-counter doses (the lowest available) increase heart attack and stroke risk by about 10 percent; low prescription doses increase it by about 20 percent, and high prescription doses could increase risk by as much as 50 percent.
Such risk increases are especially dangerous for those over age 65 or who have other cardiovascular risk factors, he warned.
"There is great concern that people think these drugs are benign, and they are probably not," Wilson said. "The thought is these are good for short-term relief, probably for your younger person with no history of cardiovascular trouble."
Avoid NSAIDs for minor aches, pains
The consensus among health experts and the FDA is that NSAIDs should only be used for short periods of time, and should not be used for minor pain or discomfort.
"The point of this warning is that we have to be very careful," said cardiologist Sanjay Kaul of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, who also served on the expert panel. "There has to be a good reason to take them. We shouldn't just be using these drugs willy-nilly."
Lambert noted that there are many non-pharmaceutical methods for managing many of the more minor complaints that people regularly rely on NSAIDs for. One of the most effective ways to get relief from arthritis symptoms, for example, is to lose weight.
"It's a risk-benefit decision," Lambert said.
"For people who are in the habit of taking these drugs for headaches or mild pain, they might want to reconsider."
(Natural News Science)
Sources:
http://healthimpactnews.com
http://www.nytimes.com
http://www.fda.gov
Suzanne
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