Big Pharma Attacks Natural Medicine to Hide Own Death Toll (And It’s Shockingly High)
Remember when ephedra, also known as the herb Ma Huang, was taken off the market for awhile after baseball’s Baltimore Oriole pitcher Steve Belcher died in Spring training? Traces of it were found during an autopsy. Even congressmen were cursing this herbal decongestant that too many were using for weight loss. But a handful of medical experts are amazed at how other causal factors were ignored. This is typical behavior for big pharma and how they handle natural or alternative medicine.
Some medical experts noted how Steve Belcher had a medical history of “heat illnesses” in high school athletics. His medical history included liver issues and hypertension (high blood pressure). His body temperature was 108 degrees before he croaked from organ failure after exerting himself under the hot humid conditions of South Florida. He had suffered a severe heat stroke.
He was also on an extreme crash diet to lose weight, and part of that included a lot of diet sodas and iced teas that contain aspartame, a substance many consider to be toxic even though the FDA considers it GRAS (generally regarded as safe). So by excluding all the other factors, ephedra became the culprit that deserved to be banned from this one incident.
This is merely one outstanding memorable example of an FDA and AMA, aka the ‘medical mafia’s’, attack on natural remedies while hiding the high toll of pharmaceutical adverse effects and deaths, often labeling such consequences as pharmaceutical drug abuse instead of letting the public know they were usually prescribed based on the AMA standard of care and used accordingly.
So What About Pharmaceuticals?
In her book Death by Modern Medicine: Seeking Safe Solutions, Dr. Carolyn Deanhas uncovered even more statistics of iatrogenic (medically caused) death than her original paper Death by Medicine. The death toll has gone up to almost 900,000 annually from various areas that include hospital stays, surgeries, incorrect or unnecessary procedures. Pharmaceutical prescriptions pitch in well over 100,000 adverse reaction deaths.
Even over the counter (OTC) sleeping pills and Tylenol (acetaminophen) are responsible for many more ER visits and deaths. Also not included are permanent disabilities from vaccines, which are rarely publicized or even reported. Cancer patients who die under allopathic care blame the disease while ignoring the devastating effects of expensive and very rarely effective chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
A Media Blowhard Creates More Hypocrisy
Oxycodone is the main opioid ingredient of OxyContin, a synthetic offshoot of heroin. And the claimed “overdose” death toll has skyrocketed to over 15,000, more than street heroin and cocaine combined.
In 2010, 254 million opioid prescriptions were filled in the USA. Shortly after that report, the CDC estimated that health insurers forked over several billion dollars for health care costs related to prescription painkillers’ adverse effects.
Meanwhile, Big Pharma raked in over $11 billion in revenue from opioid sales, with Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin, for which they were once fined $635 million for false advertising, pulling in over $3 billionfrom that.
Many prescriptions are obtained illegally or creatively. One such notorious, hypocritical example is Rush Limbaugh’s incredible oxycodone, mostly OxyContin, addiction. Hypocritical because, for a few years up until Limbaugh got busted for obtaining and using massive amounts of oxycodone through multiple doctor resources, he often railed on air about throwing drug users in jail, even while he was high on illegally obtained OxyContin. Suspiciously, his charges were dropped or reduced from felonies.
The actual solution to this quandary of authoritarian hypocrisy won’t come until the whole edifice of the medical mafia finally crumbles with enough health-conscious people abandoning it by self-educating and living healthier lifestyles while seeking natural medical solutions.
Oxycodone is a synthetic off shoot of Opium, and then codeine. Heroine is a synthetic offshoot of Morphine. The problem as I see it, is the drug laws. If you go to countries where all pharmaceutical drugs are over the counter, the problems we see in the USA, are non-existant. The biggest issue with opiates, stimulants, benzodiazepines, marijuana, and the rest of the street drugs is that the laws pave a pathway for vicious violent individuals to become rich and powerful. If all of the drugs were over the counter, the vicious violent drug trade would be non-existant. Yet, the DEA, the cops, and others are making so much money stealing from the drug dealers, that they do not want to stop it. the money is too good. Most countries, one can go to the drug store and purchase what ever it is one wants. In the west, you need to give some money to a doctor, for a prescription, then go to the drug store and give some money to the pharmacists, and on and on. The money is to good.
The illegal drug trade has made the DEA, the cops, the ATF into violent evil individuals, as bad, if not worse than the drug dealers. The money is too good.
LEGALIZE all drugs, give us some peace. Anyone that says that We Cannot Legalize drugs, that would be bad, that person is making money from the illegal drug trade.
If all the street drugs and prescription drugs were made legal, in 12 months, the use of drugs would decrease by half if not more.
“Vicious, violent people do not vanish in a puff of smoke when drugs are legalized.”
When alcohol prohibition was repealed that damn near wipe out organized crime. They turned to something that they found personally offensive: Illegal DRUGS.
Want to destroy them completely? Repeal all drug laws.
Your do gooder attitude is killing many people. How about you stop it. JUST STOP IT!! STOP THE WHOLE CULTURE OF CONTROLLING EVERYONE WHILE EXCUSING YOU OWN SINS!!!!
What makes you any different from any other dictator in history?
Soon you, like all other dictators, will be in the ash heap of history.
May the Creator of all things bring that day soon.
Thank you for saying that, as a person that cannot afford the doctors or the medical insurance I wish I could get my hands on medicine that I need, but it is too expensive and also If I go getting
it “illegaly” I will end up in prison and will get it from a drug dealer inside prison where I become a problem to the tax payers. I am out here in public, I do not commit crimes, I can work and use my choice of drug to medicate myself I can contribute to society. The government is in my way of me being better, I cannot afford them. They are killing me. I wish I could by my medicine from the pharmacy without all the doctors wanting money from me. I don’t have it.
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