DRUG DEALING IN AMERICA.....PHARMACEUTICALS, DOCTORS AND THEIR ADDICTS

   
"THERE IS NO DISEASE THAT G-D HAS NOT CREATED A CURE FOR EXPECT OLD AGE"
-UNKNOWN


    Up late watching television I have noticed the vast number of drug commercials on.  These commercials give you the benefits of these drugs but they also list the known side effects. You soon will  need another pill to combat the symptoms of the side effects. Eventually resulting in consuming 3 or 4 pills for one aliment. This has lead us to becoming a medicated society that comes to think there is a little pill for everything. It seems they have happy pills, they have sad pills, weight loss pills , weight gain pills, smart pills and they have dumb pills ( I think Newt Gingrinch and Sarah Palin both have a life long prescription).....but the fact remains we have become a drug addicted society. The real troubling facts are, our children are becoming  one of the largest consumer group of so called prescription drugs.
    I recently found that a two-year investigation by the Florida Statewide Advocacy Council found that more than 50 percent of Florida's foster children -- including infants and toddlers -- were being given mind-altering drugs.  Forty-four percent of them had not been seen by a pediatrician, and of those who had, five percent had no diagnosis.  Another 12 percent had a diagnosis of "other," which included hearing impaired, bed-wetting and the dubious, subjective diagnosis of "adjustment disorder." So we asked the question why are our children behaving the way they are.....part of the reason is the narcotics we are pushing on them. The drugs given the children were designed to treat schizophrenia, major depression, and bipolar disorder.  In young growing bodies these drugs can cause heart problems, growth suppression, psychosis, and decreased blood flow to the brain.  A common side effect is tics or shakes.
    A 2006 Brandeis University study found that over a seven-year period (1991-2004), psychotropic drug prescriptions for teens increased by 250 percent. This was 6 years ago and the new numbers are even more staggering.  The study revealed that in 2001 one in every ten office visits by teenage boys led to a prescription for a psychotropic drug, and a diagnosis of ADHD was given one-third of the time.  Also, up to 26 percent of the time when these medications were prescribed, no mental health diagnosis was made.
    The deadly phenomena of  school shootings....  in fact may be related to this increased use of psychotropic drugs as many shooters were on psychotropic drugs at the time.
    According to the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a psychiatric watchdog group, eight out of 13 school shootings, such as the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, were committed by teens on psychiatric drugs.  Mothers on these drugs have killed their children or even cut off the arms of their baby while taking these drugs.

*Kip Kinkel, a 15-year-old youth who killed his parents and then killed two and wounded 22 of his fellow students at Thurston High School in Oregon, was taking Prozac.

*Eric Harris, one of the shooters at Columbine High in Littleton, Colorado, was under the influence of Luvox (fluvoxamine), an antidepressant medication.  The potential side effects of Luvox are listed in the manufacturer's warning: "Frequent" adverse effects include "manic reaction" and psychotic reaction."  Symptoms of mania include delusions of grandeur, intense irritability, and rages and delusional thoughts.

*Fifteen-year-old Shawn Cooper of Notus, Idaho fired a shotgun at students and school staff.  According to his stepfather, he had been taking a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI).

*Thirteen-year-old Chris Fetters of Iowa killed her favorite aunt.  She was taking Prozac.

*In 2001, Christopher Pittman killed his grandparents while taking Zoloft, an antidepressant similar to Prozac.

    If drugs don't work and actually harm people, if the studies and research show this, if people don't like them.....then I ask why are physicians prescribing them, why are people buying them, and why are pharmaceutical companies so rich?
When considering the mental health of their patients, physicians and psychiatrists use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th. Edition.  Better known as the DSM-IV, the manual is published by the American Psychiatric Association and covers conventionally recognized mental-health disorders, causes, gender and age statistics, and prognoses as well as research and treatment approaches( this book is very deep)
    The DSM is used by medical practitioners and is the industry's bible if you believe there is such a thing. The information contained in it is the final word for the practice of conventional psychiatry in the United States and other "developed" countries.  If a treatment option or diagnosis is not written in its pages, it is not used or considered.
    The manual is also tremendously important to pharmaceutical companies livelihood. See the Food and Drug Administration will not approve a drug to treat a mental illness unless the condition is in the DSM.  Once a condition is included in the manual, drug companies can then market the "approved" medications to physicians and consumers.
    The original 1952 DSM manual contained 107 mental-health disorders.  The most recent edition identifies 365. In a not-so-shocking revelation, it was recently uncovered that every one of the psychiatric "experts" who provided information about disorders typically treated with pharmaceuticals -- mood disorders, schizophrenia, and other psychotic disorders -- benefited financially from drug companies, and those ties were especially strong where drugs were recommended as a first-line treatment.  Most of the money received by the DSM-IV experts was for research.  Other financial perks included speaking or consulting fees, ownership of company stock, gifts, and paid travel expenses.
    The DSM uses research to back up its treatment recommendations, which would be appropriate if the findings were objective and unbiased.  However, many of the "experts" who conducted the research have such close ties to pharmaceutical goals that the research and its conclusions should be considered invalid.
In my research I found, Eli Lilly & Company was seeking to market its drug Prozac (fluoxetine hydrochloride) to treat premenstrual syndrome (PMS); but first PMS had to be considered a psychiatric disorder.  Five of the six researchers charged with this task had ties to Eli Lilly.  Of course, a new disorder to cover this problem was conveniently recognized.  In November 1999, the FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee unanimously recommended approval of Eli Lilly’s Prozac for the treatment of "premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)," a "severe" psychiatric form of PMS.
    However, since the patent on Prozac had expired, Eli Lilly got the FDA to approve their drug Serafem for the treatment of PMDD.  Prozac and Serafem are the exact same drug.  While the patent on Prozac has expired, the patent in 2001......  the profits..... on Serafem were protected until 2007. Patents on drugs work as follows.....A company will apply for a patent before the drug has been approved to hit the market. Once it is approved they have a set number of years to sell the drug before the patent expires. So what a company will do is apply for a patent for a drug but say that it treats a number of different aliments that way they can keep selling the drug after the first patent expires. This also prevents other companies from applying for a patent for the same drug.
    Once a patent expires, a generic form of the drug may be manufactured, with considerable cost savings to a consumer.  I looked at the Internet website http://www.drugstore.com/  and did some cost comparisons.  Thirty 20-milligram capsules of brand name Prozac costs $218.99.  Thirty 20-milligram capsules of the same drug – generic Fluoxetine HCl -- costs $24.99.  Twenty-eight 20-milligram capsules of Serafem costs $181.97. All three of these drugs are the same!
     My fear is when physicians are trapped in the profit-driven HMO insurance system they are little more than pawns for healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies. We are now in an age where we must fight for old-fashioned medicine.  We must be willing to fight for our right to choose our medical care, and be willing to pay for it.  As some physicians and pharmaceutical companies push pills aggressively on every front, we must be cautious, and we must be knowledgeable.  Do not trust the diagnosis, the doctor, or the documentation.  Consumers and "crazies," beware.  You are probably not as sick as they think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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