The drugs don’t work: a modern medical scandal

'The doctors prescribing the drugs don’t know they don’t do what they’re meant to. Nor do their patients. The manufacturers know full well, but they’re not telling.

Reboxetine is a drug I have prescribed. Other drugs had done nothing for my patient, so we wanted to try something new. I’d read the trial data before I wrote the prescription, and found only well-designed, fair tests, with overwhelmingly positive results. 

Reboxetine was better than a placebo, and as good as any other antidepressant in head-to-head comparisons. It’s approved for use by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (the MHRA), which governs all drugs in the UK. Millions of doses are prescribed every year, around the world. Reboxetine was clearly a safe and effective treatment. The patient and I discussed the evidence briefly, and agreed it was the right treatment to try next. I signed a prescription.

But we had both been misled.'


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The Most Dangerous Commonly Prescribed Drug Is....

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GlaxoSmithKline to Pay $3 Billion Fine After Pleading Guilty to Healthcare Fraud - the Biggest in U.S. History

'A UK drugs firm has been hit with a $3billion penalty after admitting to the ‘biggest healthcare fraud in history’.

GlaxoSmithKline paid U.S. medics to prescribe potentially dangerous medicines to adults and children.

It handed out cash as well as everything from Madonna concert tickets to pheasant-hunting trips. Authorities branded GSK as ‘cheaters who thought they could make an easy profit at the expense of public safety, taxpayers, and millions of Americans’.'


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FDA Approves Diet Pill Containing Toxic Benzene

'Benzene is a poison. In large quantities, it can stop the heart, stop the lungs, or cause permanent brain damage. If it has any beneficial effects, they must certainly be weighed against the potential harm. Nonetheless, the FDA has just approved Belviq, a drug containing benzene, for weight loss!

That’s not the end of the bad news about Arena Pharmaceutical’s new drug, Belviq. Not only does it contain a known poison, but it also affects serotonin in the brain by activating the 5-HT_2C receptor. That means it affects the brain in a manner similar to that of the SSRI drugs—which are connected with a wide range of devastating effects, including suicide.'

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More Drugs Do Not Mean Better Care

 By Dr. Mercola

 When the Cure is Worse than the Disease

 

'The average American, aged 19 to 64, now takes close to 12 prescription drugs every year!
The average senior typically fills over 31 prescriptions every year, and even children, between the ages of 0-18, are taking an average of close to 4 prescriptions annually.
But with all of these drugs, Americans are not walking around with stellar health.
Instead, chronic disease rates are rising and the latest study published in Health Affairs revealed that the United States now ranks 49th for male and female life expectancy worldwide, a ranking that has fallen sharply from fifth place in 1950.

At the same time that life expectancy has been declining at faster rates than many other industrialized nations, per capita health spending has been on the rise.
Specifically, U.S. per capita health spending rose at nearly twice the rate of other developed countries between 1970 and 2002, which means the U.S. spends more than twice the amount on health care as other developed nations.

Part of this spending is going toward the excessive and unnecessary use of prescription drugs, which as Reuters reported, Dr. Paul Griner of the University of Rochester estimated that unnecessary or inappropriate tests and procedures add up to about 20 percent of health care spending.'

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Please Do Your Own Research Before You Ever Take Any Pharmaceutical Drug Or Vaccine

'One of the points that we have been trying to make over and over and over on this blog is that you should do your own research before taking any vaccine or drug. As we have repeatedly demonstrated, the consequences for letting someone else do your thinking for you can be catastrophic.

'In particular, please do not let someone do your thinking for you who is paid to promote or push vaccines and pharmaceutical drugs. If something gets put into your body that ruins your health, it is you that is going to have to live with it for the rest of your life. Today there are two comments left by our readers that we felt deserved to be featured because they do an excellent job of making these points. Omega and Ellen are both obviously very knowledgeable, and I think that you will enjoy the information that they have to share about vaccines and pharmaceutical drugs....'

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