If you’re taking a prescription medication, chances are that your drug has been recalled by the FDA and you might not know about it for months, until it’s time for a refill.
In fact, doctors and pharmacists even insist this drug is safe even if the FDA has banned the selling of it.
But this recent drug recall is only a small part of a much bigger issue when it comes to prescription medications. More people die from legal medications than illegal. Actually, more people die from prescribed medications than in car accidents.
That’s why in today’s feature article I’m going to talk about two recent “traditional medication” scandals as well expanding into a bigger picture.
The most recent incident of scandalous drug recalls involves a generic Lipitor made by Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals. The issue was that small fragments of glass, the size of a grain of sand, had gotten into the drug.
The recall was issued in early November, but it wasn’t till three weeks later that the FDA released a statement warning people not to take this drug.
Even after the FDA forced the generic Lipitor into recall and stopped the manufacturing of the drug, and even after the FDA confirmed that some of the affected drug lots had reached consumers, even then, many pharmacists refused to take the unused drug portions back from consumers and insisted they were still safe.
Although this incident is fortunately not likely to cost any lives, it’s the procedure of the recall that bothers me:
[adrotate group=”5″]Why would the FDA wait for three weeks to warn the people about taking this drug? And why do pharmacists maintain that the drug is safe?
The victims of another drug that has been more in the news were not as lucky. Over 14,000 people were affected, more than 400 got sick and 34 died by a lethal steroid, called methylprednisolone acetate.
One day you come in for a routine, doctor-managed injection of steroid treatment and the next thing you know you’re sick (or worse).
The methylprednisolone case pinpoints the real danger of prescription drugs. When something goes wrong, something goes REALLY WRONG.
The fungus that was found in the methylprednisolone drug is called exserohilum rostratum. Actually, it’s a very common fungus that doesn’t cause much harm when exposed to our skin or we consume it orally – as millions of people do every day.
The problem is when e. rostratum is put into a drug that transports it into the most protected parts of the brain, the consequences are lethal.
Prescription drugs are just like any other drugs. They’re an extreme concentration of chemicals that have a precise purpose to alter the function of your body, and most often, your brain.
Since these drugs are so powerful, using them requires you and your doctor to be very precise. Certain drug interactions or using drugs while consuming alcohol can be deadly.
What’s more, medications are produced in hundreds of laboratories all over the world. Often with minimal regulation and supervision. Think of the hundreds of people you’re trusting when you consume prescription medications. There is no practical way to verify where they come from or who produces them.
Every 19 minutes somebody in the USA dies of an overdose or dangerous drug/alcohol interaction from medications prescribed to them.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m absolutely aware there are times and places for traditional medications. In some cases they’re the only way. We in the western world, however, consume way too much of them.
USA counts for 5% of the world’s population but consumes 80% of all pain medications. There is something wrong with this picture.
The solution is to use all possible natural and lifestyle-changing methods to improve your health as much as possible. Even if you can’t completely heal yourself, this will minimize the amount of drugs you need and therefore minimize the risk you’re taking.
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This is a shocking revelation, if you have ever trusted the medical profession and it’s affiliates, from FDA, to labs, to pharmacies, to Hospitals, to Doctors etc, ad nauseum. I was not shocked. We have to begin to be responsible for ourselves, and attempt to also keep a good eye on our loved ones, even if they are friends and not related. Next, we have to consider that those people “most high” such as the President, and Congress must already know a lot of this information. Or, that they are incredibly naive or stupid! And they are not going to see that “citizens of the USA” are going to be informed. None of the people want informed citizens. They want mules and loyal doggies!
What a great article this is, Scott! I am so glad to see this information come out. (I saw it a few days ago, on a news article).
Scott, why do neither you nor Christian have anything to say about the sweetner, which has also been proven to act like an antibiotic, and can help a lot of people, for more than just as a safe acceptable sweetner? It is used in a nose spray as well as candies. I am referring to xylitol, which is in those famous little packages of chocolate candies you pick up in the pharmacies. (they say on the package, if you eat too many, you may get diahrrea).
Just curious, because I have something similar to Lupus, and my doctors wanted to keep giving me their standard medications, regardless of the fact that every time I leave my house, I come back with another infecton, or virus, and can hardly take the chance to use a med that will hamper my already beleagered immune system. (Each time I tried their meds, I became drastically ill, and it started my blood pressure going back to way high numbers over way high numbers. Now I am dealing with that, too, with a doctor who does not want to hear about side effects, or mine, anyway.
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My wife had a serious CVA in the latter part of June. When the hospital released her after 9 days of intensive care, their release papers had a list of medications with a statement: “Do not add to this list; don’t subract from this list; don’t change this list. While she was still in rehab our doctor insisted she take a Statin (Chrestor). I argued and reminded him what a team of doctors at the hospital recommended. These drug peddlers, called doctors must have taken a long course in med school on “hOW TO SELL USED CARS.” In August she began to lose her strength, She lost her muscles, visably noticeable. Now she couldn’t walk. I gave the Doctor pictures and wanted to stop the drug. He never replied. My life lost hard work in therapy for 3 months. Using CoQ10 she is beginning to regain her muscles back along with anti-oxidants. DON’T TAKE STATINS. THEY’RE DEADLY!
gotta watch pill interactions!
gotta watch pill interactions-good article!
Let’s add fluorinated drugs to this list such as Cipro. There are many damaging side affects and they need to be taken off the market! This website lists some of these drugs to avoid :www.slweb.org
It is all about the mighty dollar and drug companies hold all the cards – the bigger the company the less likely the Govt is to intervene.
At age 34 I was diagonised with diabetes.The doc gave me tablets to take fo the rest of my life. I refused and today at 53 . I’m perfectly healthy. God not only gave us a wonderful body but also the greatest and genius doctor within to heal and cure any condition .
99.9% meds are foreign matter which causes harm to the body.
Eat only when you are hungry and drink only when you are thirsty. Proper food, good air, relaxation and peace of mind prevents n cures any dis ease.
Asking ordinary people to take the responsibility for their own health (& their lives in general)is probably the most difficult thing members of the Human Race can be asked to do.
Time and Time again people put themselves into a difficult or dangerous situation, & do it in so many ways, then expect another person/’s or authority/organisation to get/help them out. Unfortunately this will never change as long as mankind walks the planet and we see this phenomenon every day of the week via the news items in newspapers and on TV.
There are of course a few, possibly those who read or interact with this particular forum who are different, but the general majority are mostly a lost cause, that is why Doctor’s have a endless supply of “Specimens’s” to “PRACTICE ON”…..ever wondered why a doctor’s business is called a practice, well here’s the answer…sorry doc…?
I have tarred the medical profession with a heavy brush and that is most unkind because there are a lot of very intelligent dedicated warm Hearted doctors who do wonderful work and without their particular expertise and dedication this world would be a very sad and sorry place.
It’s the general apathy that is built into the mindset of most people and the thinking that it’ll be right, and trusting to luck that is mankind’s downfall, because lady luck doesn’t always smile kindly on everyone who thinks she will.
There is of course another way of looking at these unfortunate things , as tragic as they are to a family that looses a loved one, when someone dies as a result of a botched job by a medical professional or one of the Big Pharma’s, it could be that Karma has taken it true course and that person was meant to die on that particular day at that particular time, it all depends on one’s point of view, so lead a good life and do good deeds to the best of one’s ability and hopefully when it comes to one’s actual time to die one is blessed with a peaceful and less violent transition to the next life…..?
Re-incarnation has a cause and effect built in, whether one believe’s in this phenomenon or not it is irrelevant, when eventually all of the surviving member’s of mankind in the future are are totally enlightened to the final degree, then possibly there will be no more disease or sickness and the world will be as it was meant to be with all “Living Creatures”, living in peace and harmony……?
"Ban Doctors" It's the TRUTH! Number of physicians in the US: 700,000 (thousand). Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year: 120,000. Accidental deaths per physician….0.171 (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services).
Number of gun owners in the US: 80,000,000(million). Number of accidental gun dea…
ths per year (all age groups) 1,500. Accidental deaths per gun owner: 0.0000188.
Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times.
more dangerous than gun owners.
FACT: Not everyone has a gun, but everyone has at.
least one Doctor.
Please alert your friends to this alarming threat.
We must ban doctors before this gets out of hand.
THIS HEARTBREAKING STORY COULD SAVE 'YOUR' CHILD.
A MUST READ FOR US ALL.
Kati 🙂
This is the real war on drugs we should be having!
This is my daughter Kati who is in Heaven now. This child who was prescribed Zoloft which was never approved for children under 24, yet somehow she and 10,000 other children comm…
itted suicide from being prescribed SSRI medication they never should have had.
She was 15. This beautiful girl is no longer with us because Big Pharma is in bed with the US Government and together through lobbying and the corruption that goes on between the FDA the AMA and Corporatism they push untested drugs for profit. She died in 2003. She would be 25 today (born 12-18-87 died 11/7/03) What the Zoloft website said in 2003 is completely different than what it says today. It took the death of children for them to change the warning, usage, precautions and side effects.
To see more on this see the 2012 lawsuit from GlaxoSmithKlien to get a gist of what the drug companies do to get Doctors to push their products.
"Over a period of more than a decade, the government's latest investigation found, the company plied doctors with perks such as free spa treatments, Colorado ski trips, pheasant-hunting jaunts to Europe and Madonna concert tickets, Justice Department officials said."
"At a news conference Monday and in documents posted online, the government said Glaxo spent six years—1998 to 2003—unlawfully promoting Paxil for patients under 18 when the drug wasn't approved by the FDA for non-adults. It said Glaxo helped prepare an article published in a medical journal in 2001 that falsely reported Paxil had proven effective at treating depression in children in a clinical trial, when the trial showed no such thing."
THE RELIGION OF HEALTH.
The following information is taken from the book "Trick and Treat by a Barry Groves."
THE RELIGION OF HEALTH.
Medical politics has slowly assumed the trappings of a religion whose dogmas we are expected to follow without question. Doctors and nutritionists have become health priests whose verdicts we must accept blindly. School teachers, elected and appointed public health officials, TV and radio pundits, even TV chefsand chat show hosts, have become lay-preachers so that they, too, can help to spread the gospel. People cannot be blamed for acquiescing as many have received this indoctrination since childhood, just as happens in other religions. And anyone who objects and tries to preach a different gospel is ridiculed, ostracized, and vilified. This is particularly true of those within the medical profession.
The late Dr. Robert Mendelson wrote, "There's no room for compromise because churches never compromise on canon law….in medical politics there is a rigid authoritarian power structure which can be moved only through a winner-take-all power plays. Historically. doctors who have dared to change things significantly have been ostracized and have had to sacrifice their careers in order to hold onto their ideas. Few doctors are willing to do either.
Many religions are evangelical; 'Health' is no different. It sets out with evangelical zeal to convert unbelievers. The lengths to which the medical establishment will go to increase its 'congregation' knows no limits.
Of course not all doctors are taken in. An Australian doctor, Herbert Nehrlich, summarized the financial aspect in limerick form:
Any doctor today must have stealth,
as he deals with his patients' ill health.
Let me tell you, my friend,
what goes on in the end.
is a state-sanctioned transfer or wealth.