by Dr. Mercola
Over the course of the past two decades, U.S. spending on prescription drugs increased from $40 billion to more than $230 billion.
Illegal drug company activities are one factor contributing to this inflated spending.
One 2010 study looked at trends in federal and state criminal and civil actions against drug companies in […]
RT.com
The United States has a passion for pills, being the world’s biggest users of psychotropic drugs, consuming 60 per cent of them. And pharmaceutical firms are keen to keep cashing in on the multibillion-dollar market, even if it costs people’s health.
America is regarded as a country with a prodigious appetite for […]
By DANNY HAKIM
New York Times
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Something was happening to Katie Strignano. After she was moved into a state-run group home, the 26-year-old woman, who is severely mentally retarded, started gaining weight, drooling, breaking out in pimples and pulling out her hair, leaving a bald spot the size of a softball on her head.
Her […]
By Tom Kisken
standard.net
The woman leaning against a pillar didn’t know more Americans — twice as many — take antidepressants than go to movie theaters weekly. She hadn’t heard that a federal study found the meds are used by 23 percent of middle-aged women — almost one in four.
But she knows […]
By Amy Norton
reuters.com
(Reuters Health) – Neither antidepressants nor “talk therapy” were able to outperform inactive placebo pills in a new clinical trial on depression treatment — though there were hints that the effects varied based on people’s sex and race, researchers report.
The findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, add to evidence that […]
by Dr. Ron Paul
Maryanne Godboldo, a mother in Michigan, noticed that pills prescribed by her daughter’s doctor were making her condition worse, not better. So Mrs. Godboldo stopped giving them to her. That’s when the trouble began. When Child Protective Services (CPS) bureaucrats became aware that the girl was not […]
By Daily Mail Reporter
Mail Online
‘I was drugged into a stupor for FOUR YEARS’: Boy, 12, bravely tells Congress how he was forced to take ‘stupid meds’ while in foster care
A 12-ear-old boy has bravely told how he was medicated into a near-stupor as he was passed between foster care homes.
The seventh […]
By BRINDA ADHIKARI, JOAN MARTELLI and SARAH KOCH
ABCNews
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Across America, doctors are putting foster children on powerful, mind-altering drugs at rates up to 13 times that of children in the general population. What’s more, doctors are prescribing foster children drugs at doses beyond what the Food and Drug […]
By Attorney Jonathan Emord
newswithviews.com
Within the last two decades the field of psychiatry has mushroomed from a fringe body of Sigmund Freud admirers to a mainstream player in the field of medical pharmacology, largely because of an unseemly union between that profession and the drug industry, leading to the creation […]
by Kristen Gosling
ksdk.com
In a sea of stress more and more people are turning to Xanax to treat their anxiety.
Also known as Alprazolam, it’s the 11th most prescribed drug in the United States, but you often don’t need a doctor to get it.
22-year-old “Nick” is a recovering Xanax addict.
In addition to getting them at parties, he […]
Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD & Stan White (Father of Deceased Veteran, Andrew White) disclose the following:
EL CAJON, Calif., Nov. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — As a neurologist who has discovered and described medical diseases, I (FAB) read the May 24, 2008, Charleston (WV) Gazette article “Vets taking Post Traumatic Stress Disorder drugs […]
Health Impact News Editor Comments: We have had a lot of “false scares” in recent years over supposed epidemics that threatened the U.S. population, such as the “bird flu” and the “swine flu.” Fear over such potential epidemics that never happened gave great economic benefit to the vaccine industry that rushed vaccines to the […]
Health Impact News Editor Comments: The “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” is the publication used by Psychiatrists to define mental illnesses and legally prescribe drugs. How are these diseases diagnosed? Watch this video:
The DSM5 edition is now being debated, and as this article by Dr. Allen Frances explains, almost every group has come […]
By Peter Jamison
SFWeekly.com
According to the San Francisco-based organization California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR), more than 25,000 California nursing-home residents are being given anti-psychotic drugs. That’s about a quarter of the state’s nursing-home population, and according to CANHR and other elder-rights activists, it’s a figure that’s way too high — […]
by Dr. Mercola
Death by medicine is a 21st-century epidemic, and America’s “war on drugs” is clearly directed at the wrong enemy!
Prescription drugs are now killing far more people than illegal drugs, and while most major causes of preventable deaths are declining, those from prescription drug use are increasing, an analysis of recently […]
Citizens Commission on Human Rights
4-year-olds on drugs? You betcha. The American Academy of Pediatrics issued new treatment guidelines for “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” that say ADHD can be diagnosed in kids as early as age four, and that Ritalin and similar drugs are an appropriate treatment even for children this […]
by Dr. Peter R. Breggin
The New York Times
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The drugging of children for A.D.H.D. has become an epidemic. More than 5 million U.S. children, or 9.5 percent, were diagnosed with A.D.H.D. as of 2007. About 2.8 million had received a prescription for a stimulant medication in 2008.
The A.D.H.D. diagnosis does not identify a […]
by S. L. Baker
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) Two doctors from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard’s teaching hospital, have taken an unusual step for the medical profession. These courageous physicians are speaking out about today’s healthcare system which emphasizes money over individualized patient care.
In an article just published in The New England Journal of […]
By Tom Kisken
Ventura County Star
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Drug companies Johnson & Johnson and Amgen battled each other so bitterly in a market share war that they pushed drugs and dosages jeopardizing patients’ lives, said the Santa Barbara author of a book about Johnson & Johnson whistle-blowers. Kathleen Sharp’s “Blood Feud” focuses on anemia drugs […]
By ROBERT PEAR
New York Times
Medicare is subsidizing drug abuse by thousands of beneficiaries who shop around for doctors and fill prescriptions for huge quantities of painkillers and other narcotics far exceeding what any patient could safely use, Congressional investigators say in a new report. The investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, […]
