Properly Prescribed Drugs Can Kill You

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that drug overdoses killed 33,000 people in 2005, second only to car accidents in the category of accidental deaths. In 1999, the number was 20,000, and in 1990, 10,000 died.

As this excellent commentary in Better Body Journal points out, the huge increase in people dying is not because of a heroin or crack epidemic. These deaths are largely due to prescription drugs.

Consider that 46 percent of Americans take at least one prescription pill daily. Are these drugs really solving all your problems? If so, then why is the pharmaceutical industry growing every single year, with some of the biggest profit margins of any industry?

A good portion of the drugs that make up the multi-billion dollar industry of pharmaceuticals are simply doing nothing, if not making us worse. For example, a recent study suggests that anti-depressants only work for the severely depressed. If you’re not in that category, then you might as well be taking a sugar pill.

In most cases, Americans are taking more drugs than they need. How about stopping the problems before they start? Take a step back and look at your life. Do you actually have problems, or do you only think you have problems because of a drug commercial?

See Full Article: http://www.betterbodyjournal.com/health/pharmaceutical-drug-companies-killing-middle-america-legally-while-robbing-you-blind

Doctor’s Note:

This article may surprise a lot of you and for some it could be a wake up call. I am not a firm believer in medication although there are some that are necessary, like those that are required to sustain life. I would urge you to talk to your prescribing doctor about getting off the medication and he/she should be willing to help you. If the prescribing doctor is unwilling then I would suggest getting another doctor that is willing to help.

If your prescribing doctor says “there is no way you can get off of this medication or you will die”, then get a second opinion from a non-medical doctor.*

According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), an estimate of 106,000 hospitalized patients die each year from drugs that, by medical standards, are properly prescribed and properly administered.

And 2 million more suffer serious side effects.

Other studies show:

1. The recorded medical errors and deaths equate to six jumbo jets falling out of the sky each day, 365 days a year

2. Since 2001- 490,000 people have died from properly prescribed drugs in the US, while 2,996 people died on U.S. soil from terrorism, all in the 9/11 attacks; prescription drugs are therefore 16,400% more dangerous than terrorism.

3. If deaths from over-the-counter drugs are also included, then drug consumption jumps to being 32,000% more dangerous than terrorism. Conventional medicine viewed as a whole is 104,700% deadlier than terrorism.

Note that these were all properly prescribed drugs, no wrong prescriptions included. This also shows you that over-the counter drugs, that your kids can buy, are also unsafe.

Also keep in mind most common conditions such as depression, diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis, etc.  can all be treated without drugs. Many studies have shown that exercise, diet, nutritional supplements, herbs, and homeopathic remedies can treat most common conditions.

* Chiropractor, Natural Physician, an open-minded DO, a homeopathic doctor etc.