The Dangers of Toxic Prescription Pharmaceutical Drugs
Do you take a drug from your doctor long term to "cure" your illness? You may want to think twice, because your health may actually be in jeopardy! Your doctor is trained in prescribing potentially toxic preparations which don't have and place in actually healing your body.
Pharmaceutical drugs do not treat the underlying problems of disease and ill health, but instead, treat the symptoms of the disorder. Unfortunately, this often masks the disorder while the underlying problems become more complicated or intensify. And, when you stop the drug - all the symptoms come back, and sometimes much more intensely than before.
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Doctors are heavily influenced by drug companies through marketing and sales. Furthermore, research relied on is often performed by drug companies themselves. Remember, pharmaceuticals are the largest business sector besides oil where 4 billion US dollars is spent on marketing towards potential patients, and 16 billion for marketing to doctors! Voltaren is one such drug, heavily promoted on TV in New Zealand yet linked to an 86% increased risk of stroke.
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Drugs are advertised on TV. Researchers found that "patients" were five times as likely to walk out of doctors' offices with a prescription when they mentioned seeing an ad for the heavily promoted drug.
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Dependency and addiction. Prescription drugs can form dependency where your body no longer functions properly on its own because it is being externally stimulated by the drugs. Therefore, discontinuing use of the drug is difficult for the body to continue the proper process on its own. Leaving you only able to continue on the drug. This is what drug companies want, for patients to be long term customers. More drugs = more profits.
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Drugs actually CAUSE illness. Prescription drugs can form tolerances to other drugs or the drug itself which leaves your body vulnerable to a decreased response to other treatments or treatments in the future, especially for viral and bacterial infections.
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Drugs deplete your system. Regular use of prescription or OTC (over the counter) drugs can deplete other systems that they are not directly used to treat. For instance, researchers found that regular use of the over-the-counter painkiller acetaminophen (paracetamol) was linked to higher rates of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as well as reduced lung function. Just because it is available OTC does not mean it is safe!
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There are known side effects to each and every drug – ranging from mild to serious depending on the individual. Some of which are even more unpleasant than the symptoms the drug is supposedly relieving.
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There are serious interactions both known and unknown between various drugs. With the growing number of prescriptions people are taking there is an equal increase in the risk of detrimental interactions and counter-indications that are difficult to decipher or predict.
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Many drugs are often found to later be harmful to one’s health. For example, the infamous case of arthritic patients who were taking Vioxx that was later pulled from the market due to its negative effects. Over 60,000 people were killed by choosing Vioxx for their arthritic pain relief and over 100,000 more were seriously injured. Generally, 51% of FDA-approved drugs have serious adverse effects not detected prior to approval. Each year prescription drugs injure 1.5 million people so severely they require hospitalisation. In addition, prescription drugs cause 100,000 deaths annually in USA alone.
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Drugs kill thousands annually around the world. One day the ridiculous notion that the physician can "heal" the body with a toxic drug will one day be exposed - just like the tobacco industry - and we will once again resort back to a more natural way of allowing the body to heal itself. But whilst there is an industry spawned around illness (the sickness industry) profiting so handsomely from other people's misfortune under the veil of "science" it may be some time yet.
Last Article Update: 23 April 2011
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