106,000 die every year from correct use of drugs

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Quite frankly, I think it's little more than a pharmaceutical drug racket!! Especially when it comes to treating the elderly. So many "illnesses" for which the most expensive drugs are prescribed are totally manageable or curable with proper diet and exercise -- and it's usually diet that led to these problems in the first place. But do the doctors counsel their patients about these alternatives -- hell no! I find it particularly distressing when I see the Dateline stories about seniors trucking off to Canada to buy their prescription drugs. One woman, who was severely overweight, was on 10 medications, half of them psychiatric drugs, the other half for diabetes, cholesterol, high blood pressure. What kind of quality of life could this woman have popping all those pills? But more distressing than that, is surrendering your existence and health to the medical profession and hoping that they don't kill you with their potions. I have one friend who is very ill with diabetes, heart trouble, high cholesterol, etc. and yet she does everything that is contraindicated -- she smokes, doesn't exercise, eats junk food, and then takes $700 a month in medications. This is both puzzling and troubling to me, but that's just me, the lifelong health nut who's always been terrified of doctors and their medicines.

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>>This is nothing new. Any prescription drug is in effect a poison.

FACT: Over 2 million people are seriously injured, and 106,000 die

every year, *from the correct use of prescription drugs*.

And to add salt to the injury, this is what Dr. Lucian Leape, a

health policy analyst at the Harvard School of Public Health,

said: " Adverse drug events are a disease of medical progress " .

So, if your spouse or your child or your father or mother drops dead

from a prescription, which is the correct prescription, they've had

an " adverse drug event " .

And what action is taken as a result of this. Let's see. In 1992

there were 2.03 billion prescriptions dispensed. In 1998 it rose to

2.78 billion. And in 2005 it will be 4 billion.

There are already more than 100,000 people dying every year. And the

action taken is to increase the number of drugs available. It sounds

like insanity. It's just like if someone were drowning in a pool,

you add water to the pool, in order to save the person.

Now cholesterol medications are drugs as well, and are no exception

to the above. However there are specific side effects to the

cholesterol medications such as muscle weakening and destruction or

liver disease.

If you've had enough of cholesterol medications and their side

effects, you should try alternatives to them. If your doctors do not

know, it does not mean alternatives do not exist.<<

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> Quite frankly, I think it's little more than a pharmaceutical drug

racket!!

> Especially when it comes to treating the elderly. So

many " illnesses " for

> which the most expensive drugs are prescribed are totally

manageable or curable

> with proper diet and exercise -- and it's usually diet that led to

these

I totally agree. I work with the elderly population and the majority

of them are taking TEN OR MORE medications. They see their MDs as up

there next to God. I think it is abuse of the elderly. Many of

these illnesses could have been contained or managed when they were

younger. Now it is out of control and they are brainwashed and/or

demented. my experience working with MDs is that they do not

understand nutrition and they do not understand the effects of

medications or how to offer anything other than medications.

Terry

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--- In Withdrawal_and_Recovery , glitterari@a...

> and it's usually diet that led to these

> problems in the first place. But do the doctors counsel their

patients about these

> alternatives -- hell no!

I totally agree with you here, Glitter! My triglycerides and

diabetes became a problem only when I gained 30 lbs of weight back

after getting newly married and having to cook what my husband

wants.

NOT ONCE has one of my my regular doctors commented on this! I used

to not have to be on ANY diabetes meds or cholesterol meds, but it's

like they don't see that in my records!

Also, what really cracks me up is that they ALL say in order to

lower my trigylcerides, I need to eat low fat only. They don't know

that eating low carb is really what does it. IGNORANCE.

I'm trying to lose weight now.

Best wishes,

Melody

[Guest guest]

--- In Withdrawal_and_Recovery , " twsno2001 " it is

> my experience working with MDs is that they do not

> understand nutrition and they do not understand the effects of

> medications or how to offer anything other than medications.

> Terry

Wow! You hit the nail on the head there, Terry!

Melody