Why is the U.S. Spending More Than $1 Trillion for Drugs?

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builder7 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:15:52 GMT

Why do so many people that think that they are hip and cool, and maybe even smart think that taking chemicals that are made in back street laboratories are ok, but then drink bottled water? At least with legal drugs you know that it doesn't have any extra poisons in it or unnecessary cuts and chemicals in it. All drugs are not good for a person but we live in a society where the instant, easy, fast fix is the answer to everything. The next time that you want to take some kind of a drug, legal or illegal, just don't for a while and see how it works out!

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T_rex — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:38:05 GMT

"There are times when drugs are necessary", I disagree, Dr Mercola. I haven't taken a single pill in over 30 years and I'm still alive. Drugs are NEVER "NECESSARY"

DRUGS ARE POISONS.

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steve.m — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:58:28 GMT

Hi all,

A recent report showed that a placebo is just as effective as an antidepressant. Now the drug companies must have known this 50 or 60 years ago when they first conducted the clinical trials.

However they have continued to foist their toxic, harmful, side effect laden compounds onto an unsuspecting public, all for the sake of money.

As they have lied about the merits of these types of drugs, what makes us think they can be trusted to tell us the truth about anything?

I agree that all diseases and illnesses are curable, it is the patients who are incurable because they would rather continue their toxic life styles and take "remedies" than change the way they think and behave. I know, because I used to be the same. The best books I have come across on this subject are the books by Louise Hays, for example, "You can heal your Life." When I first read it, I thought it made sense, but I didn't believe it. Ten years on and I now KNOW it is true.

If you want a possible answer with regard to the Truth, try www.ameril.net and find out the real meaning of life.

wishing you all much love and happiness,

steve m.

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HeatherM — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:16:26 GMT

andrewtd,

The majority of people on this site don't say not to eat meat. Neither does Dr M. We're even against vegarianism, but meat should definately be grass fed and if possible, hormone free. Obviously you haven't been with us very long.

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HeatherM — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:02:55 GMT

An Australian health centre director & author, by the name of Elaine Hollingsworth, said in a T.V. interview warning against soy, that "doctors are dangerous". You should have seen the look on the face of the T.V. host. She thought Elaine was mad. But isn't it SO true! Her "radical" website address is actually www.doctorsaredangerous.com

Interestingly, she's written 10 editions of her book called, Take Control Of Your Health...the same title as Dr M's. And in her list of Recommended Reading is Dr M's "The No Grain Diet".

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HeatherM — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:14:18 GMT

The EKG staff thought it amasing Dr M, who's only in his early 50'ies, wasn't on some form of medication! For God's sake, that's not elderly!!! It makes you wonder what the average 52 y.o.'s on......probably at least a statin &/or blood pressure pills, I suppose.

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Brazil123 — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:32:58 GMT

According to my own experience, conventional doctors (M.D.'s) are totally out of touch with the populations health issues; they are not able to relate the simplest symptoms to the most commong diseases. I went to about 20 different MD's over the past 15 years because my insurance did not cover naturopathic health only to deteriorate more and more. When I was laid off and had to pay for medical care out of pocket I sosught out a naturopathic physician. On my first visit he detected my low thyroid and prescribed me bio-identical hormones to make up for what my body was not producing due to a hysterectomy. I lost 30 bls, feel great enough tot exercise again and am pain free. The allopathic medical system ought to be banned until education is in place to teach these morons the abc's of what actually works.

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Rett — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:57:44 GMT

My two cents to this article would be that as a wife of a military retiree, the first thing that comes to mind about the title to this article is that most of that Trillion dollar payout would be to supply military pharmacies. As I've said before, I could get most any prescription filled at a military pharmacy at no expense to me. Our tax dollars pay for that and my husband does pay taxes out of his megar retirement pay. Except for taking Glucovance (metformin), I quit taking all those drugs that were prescribed to me during my stay in the hospital when I had a mild heart attack and had triple bypass surgery in October 2001. The heart attack caused no damage but my heart stopped for five minutes after the bypass was completed and they had me all stapled up. ;) If I had known then what I know now, that would not have happened. I was very ignorant and had avoided doctors like the plague and I was vulnerable to their recommendations for surgery the next day. But I look at it this way. I smoked like a freight train before all that happened and I had prayed to God to make something happen for me to quit smoking. He did and I don't smoke now. I'm happy and I'm learning how to do better for myself for whatever time I have left before I am placed in a grave. I give all the glory to God and praise Him each day that I don't light up and don't even want to. When I remember how it was, it's truly a miracle because I enjoyed each and every one I smoked until that last year when I realized how useless my life was. All I did was sit in front of the TV and smoke and eat junk and wondered how all those people walking by my house had the energy to do that. I didn't. I was dead tired all the time. I knew it was the cigarettes and that's when I started praying for God's help. Praise God from whom all blessing flow

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curious7 — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:47:29 GMT

Now we can see why there is this stepped up effort to prohibit vitamins, and herbs, why there is so much deception when it comes to the USDA recommended daily allowence of vitamins and minerals. Why there is this big lie about processed foods being healthy for the consumer. Process foods which by the way are a direct link to diabetes, obesity, heart disease, hypertension, and even cancer. Why there is so much of a reliance on an animal based diet, and less reliance on healthy plant based diet.

Then there is the science that is bought and paid for by those who only want to turn a dollar, and could care less about the health factors involved. So they hire scientists to lie to create studies that tell the public you need animal protein for a healthy life, amoung other lies. Such as tobacco is healthy, and does not harm. This is all done to turn a dollar.

These and other reasons are why Americans are unable to consume a healthy diet, and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Look closely, and at the root of bad medicine, poor diets, and the like you will find BIG PHARMA. Then there is the supression of knowledge, and the muddling of the truth. So much for FREE SPEECH.

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infinitesymmetry — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:28:12 GMT

I have spoken to thousands of patients over a period of years, and there is no question that the medical profession in general (allopathic) is an orchestrator of decline.

It's hard to believe that so many people do not question the dangerous effects of these poisons.

Perhaps many have resigned themselves to letting the doctor decide their fate, since he/she is the professional.

I'd have patients who on the brink of death and were very hard to convince that we could help them improve over the "cut, burn and poison" they were getting before.

If anyone's interested in tossing your drugs for hair loss and related issues, check this one out.

www.Immortalhair.org

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b8akaratn — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:08:13 GMT

Big Pharma & Government have partnered up to give us a massive fear-mongering campaign of "Public Safety." It starts with vaccinations, where we're told (or mandated) to inject our healthy young people with chemicals & modified viruses ... & that this is all supposed to be prophylactic. We grow up drinking tap water that has a constant level of fluoride in it. Though there is no real benefit from us drinking fluoridated water, the Government insists that, for safety /health reasons, this chemical should be there & we should ingest it regularly. Just the other day in Buffalo, I saw some of the mass transit buses bearing large advertisements on their sides that read, "Pandemic Flu: What You Need to Know."

I was livid.

What we REALLY need everyone to know are things like:

1) Donald Rumsfeld / Gilead stood to make billions with Tamiflu; was it any surprise the Bush regime stockpiled it to avert the oncoming "pandemic" that they warned our nation about?

2) Julie Gerberding of the CDC actually came out & said that bird-flu was NOT going to be the pandemic that mainstream media purported it to be -- but nary a report covered her statement (dwb.thenewstribune.com/.../5663764p-5080102c.html)

My dad was recently diagnosed with diabetes, and a book he has advised him to eat "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" over regular butter. What *I* can't believe is that this product BY LAW is allowed to say "No Trans Fat" even though its ingredients CLEARLY include hydrogenated vegetable oils! (This is "because the (FDA) allows food manufacturers to make the claim as long as each serving of the product has less than half a gram of trans fat. In a serving of 14g, this equates to up to 3.5% trans fat by weight" - see here: en.wikipedia.org/.../I_Can%27t_Believe_It%27s_Not_Butter.)

Thank goodness for sites like this, which speak truth to power. Big Pharma & Government have been in bed so long, but WE are the ones who need to wake up.

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Heather Marsh — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:14:44 GMT

Medicine should be 'at first do no harm'.

If everyone suddenly veto'd all overprocessed foods, all additives, all hydrogenated oils and all GM crops the world economy would collapse! There is a HUGE amount of money invested, plus the attendant advertising. If people then made an effort to include regular challenging and FUN exercise into their routines, this would soon be followed by a decrease in medicine intervention.....not near so many would need it.

It could well result in the collapse of civilisation as we know it. The next thing to fall would probably be the stock exchange. Investment in natural resources would still be profitable, but the market in relation to foodstuffs and medical care would be much less exciting.

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carrieon — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:17:17 GMT

If you need to die, just see an American Doctor. I don't know what else they are good for anymore. What a sad waste of education these people have to go through to deliver this aweful service to the public. I blame the AMA for making them so brainwashed. This is a criminal organization that needs to be banned or charged with racketeering and anti-trust.

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healthfreedom — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:21:04 GMT

I think it's stupid that for the first time in history, they are giving anti-depressants to american troops. Let's give them drugs to make them feel better about it.

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limelemon — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:59:40 GMT

DRUGS ARE QUACKERY

The drug companies use a fraudulent technique called “guest authorship” or “ghostwriting” to make it appear that their own research on their drug was the work of independent scientists, when in fact, the scientists are paid by the drug company to lend their names as authors of the studies.

Since these studies are actually being conducted by the drug companies themselves, it is the drug companies who own the results of the studies. Since it is their private data, they can and often choose to withhold the results and not publish them or submit them to the FDA. This is exactly what they have been doing -- they have been hiding studies with bad results. Studies with results indicating that the drug is dangerous and/or ineffective are not published.

THIS IS OUTRIGHT FRAUD AND TOTALLY VIOLATES THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD. THIS MEANS THAT ALL DRUGS ARE QUACKERY. Not only is there no scientific evidence that drugs are safe and effective, but the published data is fraudulent and unscientific.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/business/15cnd-vioxx.htm

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.vioxx18apr18,0,7944908.story

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/17/health/17depress.html