The
Dangers of Drugs
Millions
of people are suffering needlessly as a direct consequence of the
unconscionable zeal of the pharmaceutical industry to rake up billions of
dollars of profit aided and abetted by scientists and researchers who have been
paid handsomely, even to the extent of falsifying tests and research results in
some cases.
Not too long ago, three of the top executives of
Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to criminal charges of misleading the public on
the risk of addiction and abuse associated with the painkiller drug OxyContin.
That was only another of the many scandals of pharmaceutical companies
doctoring research findings of the safety of drugs and masking their
undesirable side effects.
For decades, unreliable drug tests have abounded in
the medical and pharmaceutical research community, not only in the United States
but also in other parts of the world.
It is not uncommon for pharmaceutical companies to
“influence” researchers through coercion, incentive, and even threat, to
produce the desired results in clinical trials. Fabricating data, such as in
the case of OxyContin, is no surprise
to the pharmaceutical industry.
Clinical trials, usually involving a small number
of people, may not truly reflect the outcome of those who will ultimately be
using those drugs after their approval by FDA.
In addition, drugs tested on some animal models may be biased and even irrelevant on humans. An artificially induced disease in non-human animal models may yield results incompatible to a spontaneous, naturally occurring human disease. In short, there is no absolute safety or reliability of many pharmaceutical drugs that are readily available to the public.
The pharmaceutical companies and the FDA have
convinced not only the medical establishment but also the gullible public that
costly drugs are the only answers to all their health problems, despite their
dubious track records and often-deadly side effects.
The use, misuse, and abuse of drugs account for
250,000 to 500,000 deaths each year in the United States . And do you still
believe that pharmaceutical drugs provide all the possible answers to
your health problems? Dr. O. W. Holmes, Professor of Medicine, Harvard University , had this to say regarding
pharmaceuticals putting you in harm’s way: “If all the medicine in the world
were thrown into the sea, it would be bad for the fish and good for humanity.” Dr.
Holmes’ statement speaks volumes of the potential harm in using
pharmaceuticals.
When you give your body a drug that replaces a
substance your body is capable of making itself, your body then becomes weaker,
not stronger, and begins not only to manufacture less of that substance,
but also to become more dependent on the outside source, which is
usually the drug you have been taking.
Unfortunately, no drug can give you insight into
the circumstance that created your problems. At best, it can only temporarily
reduce the symptoms or physical pain created by your medical condition. A drug
“cures” your symptoms at the expense of creating more potential symptoms
further down the road. For a while, you may be symptom-free, but soon enough
new symptoms may emerge, requiring yet a more potent drug to deal with them,
and thus forming a vicious cycle of taking more toxic pharmaceutical drugs.
Remember, there is no miracle cure, only natural
self-healing, which is holistic health of the body, the mind, and the soul.
According to Dr. John Tilden, author
of Toxemia, the
first and only cause of disease is toxemia, which is the accumulation of
toxic wastes over a long period of time. In other words, toxicity retained and
stored in our bodies is the common denominator for the causes of all human
diseases, including autoimmune diseases.
Stephen Lau
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