Dr. Mercola April 05 2008 153,651 views
Dr. Mercola's article on the road that has led him to where is he now, in repects to his training and experiences was interesting and indicative of how difficult it is to find a really expert healer who doesn't use big pharma's drugs. And if you are fortunate enough to find one, chances are slim to none that insurance will help pick up the tab. Why should they; they make much more money supporting the disease care system instead of the health care system. I understand there are doctors out there curing diseases, even cancer, but they have to work very discreetly or they could find themselves out of a career and in jail.Apparently the wonderful people at the F*A have come up with a brilliant law or regulation which states that only a drug can treat or cure a disease, with no small pressure from big pharma, I'm sure. So. what that means is that if you cure or help heal someones disease without drugs and a medical license to prescribe them, you have broken the law and are liable to be prosecuted which means shutting the doctor down and possible jail time. If this sounds to you like something out of the Bizarro world, I agree with you. It's so bizarre that it may even defy belief for some, but that is how things are sometimes down in this world. And with ever more conditions being classified as "diseases" the medical/pharma cartel is constantly expanding (and trying to defend)their turf. A chiropractor friend of mine secreted a Rife frequency generator into the county several years ago and cured his mother's cancer. These doctors cannot claim to cure anything. The medical/pharma cartel has an effective monopoly. Now don't misunderstand me; I think there is a place for medical doctors in our society. But that place is a very small one compared to the huge slice of the pie they now enjoy. Use them for broken bones, stitching up a wound or other emergency care. Big pharma is an investment industry and people are making billions peddling death by deception. Caveat Emptor!
Robert Passmore Liversidge III, my only son, was killed by Lilly's Olanzapine (Zyprexa) in October 2002 at the age of 39. My family's life has been basically ruined as a result, and oftentimes I don't want to live. Yet I will battle Pharma until the day I die, whenever that may be.
I would be interested in corresponding with the man further up in the comment section whose father was killed by Zyprexa.
Grieving,
I am deeply saddened by your post. Although I have little experience with anti-depressants with myself, nor my family, I would like to say that last year, I was poisoned with Depo-Provera. I found many women on the website www.askapatient.com who wear the same shoes as I. It has been very helpful to me. Maybe you can come in contact with others that have suffered as you? I wish you the very best of luck.
Heartfelt wishes,
Samurai
Dear Grieving,
I am so sorry to about your loss, I pray for you and your family. Like samurai, I have never lost anyone due to a prescription drug, but I have suffered a detached retina in one eye and numerous tears in the other after taking an antidepressant called Cymbalta from Eli Lilly for a little over a month. Getting off of it was like having withdrawals from a bad drug. That was in early 2005 and my eyes have never been the same.
While I thank God I didn't lose my eye's completely, I fear that so many people are suffering needlessly at the hands of not only big pharma, but their own doctors who are being bought off by them.
May God heal your grieving heart and give you the strength you need to continue to battle Big Pharma as will the rest of us.
WellnessMom
Grieving, I am so saddened and deeply angered by your loss. I was on that super-poison Zyrexa for eight months, over two four-month periods. Each time I quit I felt like I'd had a lobotomy. I could barely walk. I could hardly even breathe. I couldn't sleep for more than two hours a night. I had no emotions except extreme anxiety, suicidal depression, and rage. I was paranoid and agorophobic. Two years later the withdrawals have hardly improved. I still get suicidal at times and am very sensitive to negative things, and sleep is a rare Godsend, and I feel like I'm floating in some other world. I am still ten pounds overweight from it, even though I run every day. Of course this is absolutely nothing compared to your loss. It is genocide. Big Pharma are *** and the doctors who perpetuate their dope and their lies are just as guilty as the followers of the *** were.
WellnessMom, I am so saddened and angered by what happened to you as well. I wonder if turmeric might help heal your retinas? Best of luck to you.
I am surprised that the word "nazi" was censored from my post. What about "fascists?" That is indeed what the pharmaceutical industry is, is it not?
Poor Grieving; I'm so very sorry for you:(
I had a very good dr who leaned to the holistic side at a university med center warn me about vioxx before any bad press aboout it, saying there werent many studies, expensive etc.... unfortunately she had a lot of trouble with them and left...
i have heard our rights to buy supplements is in jeopardy, that 'codex alimentatis (sp?) could make them all condidered a drug and illegal, and there will no longer be places like the vitamin shoppe... anyone else hear that?
Skyblupink, your fears are well-founded. Big Pharma would love nothing more than to put the supplement and natural health industry out of business. They tried, with the FDA's help, to overturn the U.S. law passed in the 80s that classified supplements as "food" and not subject to FDA regulation. The FDA wants to reclassify supplements as "toxins," regulate them, and allow them to be "prescribed" only by medical doctors who, coincidentally, are not formally trained in nutrition, know little or nothing about supplements, and have been taught to push drugs. In essence, regulating supplements would put the supplement industry out of business. Fortunately, through massive efforts by the Natural Solutions Foundation (www.healthfreedomusa.org) and others, the FDA and Big Pharma failed in their attempt—this time. They will try again because, after all, Big Pharma’s profits are at stake.
As for the Codex Alimentarius, that too, is real. See “Codex Crash Course” on the link above for a brief description of what it is. Basically, it is a U.N.-mandated code, established in 1962, to define standards for the international trading of food. To quote the website:
“Codex' decisions are heavily influenced by the desires of multinational special interest groups who send representatives to sit on national committees and as NGO delegates. Because Codex is so heavily influenced by corporate interests, its decisions are, in our opinion, often helpful to corporate well-being but strikingly detrimental to human and environmental health.”
“Codex pertains to every … kind of … food traded internationally and allows high doses of pesticides, veterinary drugs, synthetic hormones, contaminants, artificial sweeteners, and other dangerous compounds and processes (like mandated irradiation of food) while it forbids health claims for food.”
This is just the tip of the iceberg of what’s really going on out there. Do a little research and stay informed!
Big Pharma and M.D.wont go away till the insurance companies start paying for natural medicine practice ; if people would have choice and the insurance pays fully, chemical drugs and chemical doctors wont stand a chance to the holistic approach;
people please demand from your insurance companies to pay for the holistic !!!!!!!!!!!!
Better yet, dismantle the tax incentive the government gave employers to pay for their workers' health insurance, and get insurers out of the health care business. Insurance works best when it's used for catastrophic events, not routine health care!
Islander, you and Mary make excellent points.....my sister is a doctor(MD) and even in the honor's program in med. school...she didn't have much in the way of pharmaceutical training...not nearly as much as a pharmacist....that really bothered her (and me)...so these "well-meaning" doctors don't have time to dig up adversarial research??? so they depend on the research from the drug Rep???
Looks like the fox is guarding the henhouse....If your not getting your info from any other source on a regular basis than the drug rep, then...it's a conflict of interest plain and simple.....I don't care how trusting and well meaning they are....they're all intelligent enough to know better......
Mary here are several sources of alternate information from qualified third parties.
First, you can pay a subscription (I believe it costs $15 per year) to worstpills. org (Ralph Nader started this organization in the 1990s with a number of doctors concerned about pharmaceutical company products). This organization has raised alerts about drugs well ahead, in some cases years ahead, of an FDA Black Box warning or pulling a drug off the market.
Also, the University of British Columbia in Vancouver Canada has an excellent program that was established a few years ago to help eductate doctors and the public. Their website address is www.ti.ubc.ca
Third, you might be interested to read the editorial column of the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal at www.cmaj.ca. The editor blasts the whole notion of "industry funded physician education." Mighty brave of him considering this is the journal for the doctor's lobby group.
Lastly, people everywhere should be advocating hard with their elected representatives to put universities and arms-length govenment bodies back in charge of both research and education. We're all too numbed into apathy by nonsense reality shows and skewered news media. Come on people, they're not on our side. We have the power, we just need to stand up and be counted. Make noise, don't just tune in to mush head TV.
By the way, Obama has said his answer to fixing health care coverage costs is to "work with the pharmaceutical companies." Well I guess you know how effective that "babe in the woods" approach will be with the sharks. My, my, how gullible he and the public are when fuelled by media hype that he's the heir to Martin Luther King. Obama couldn't hold a candle to Martin Luther King's intelligence. Obama is King-lite, and maybe not even that. He's just an illusion for people to pin hopes on, he has no real substance. And the Republican brain trust knows it. They can't wait to carve him up.