i need some good facts about prescription medication?

Question

Pros about prescription medication (why it is healthy)

Answer 1

Basically, prescription medications are all put through several stages to ensure clinical trials have been properly done (record side effects and any adverse events), purity, strength, manufacturer's site sterility. All of these things are submitted to the FDA who then decides if the medication is safe to be approved for public use. Some drugs come right out with "black box warnings" because they may have serious adverse effects. Doctors and pharmacists are supposed to know these warnings--if any-- and decide if it's safe for each patient. Now that we live in the age of the Internet, patients are looking these drugs up on their own before taking them.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

IT is NOT healthy! Nowhere NEAR healthy. Where ever did you get that idea?! Here are the FACTS:

The pharmaceutical industry is an investment industry driven by the profits of its shareholders. Improving human health is not the driving force of this industry.

The pharmaceutical investment industry was artificially created and strategically developed over an entire century by the same investment groups that control the global petrochemical and chemical industries.

The huge profits of the pharmaceutical industry are based on the patenting of new drugs. These patents essentially allow drug manufacturers to arbitrarily define the profits for their products.

The marketplace for the pharmaceutical industry is the human body – but only for as long as the body hosts diseases. Thus, maintaining and expanding diseases is a precondition for the growth of the pharmaceutical industry.

A key strategy to accomplish this goal is the development of drugs that merely mask symptoms while avoiding the curing or elimination of diseases. This explains why most prescription drugs marketed today have no proven efficacy and merely target symptoms.

To further expand their pharmaceutical market, the drug companies are continuously looking for new applications (indications) for the use of drugs they already market. For example, Bayer’s pain pill Aspirin is now taken by 50 million healthy US citizens under the illusion it will prevent heart attacks.

Another key strategy to expand pharmaceutical markets is to cause new diseases with drugs. While merely masking symptoms short term, most of the prescription drugs taken by millions of patients today cause a multitude of new diseases as a result of their known long-term side effects. For example, all cholesterol-lowering drugs currently on the market are known to increase the risk of developing cancer – but only after the patient has been taking the drug for several years.

The known deadly side effects of prescription drugs are the fourth leading cause of death in the industrialized world, surpassed only by the number of deaths from heart attacks, cancer and strokes (Journal of the American Medical Association, April 15, 1998). This fact is no surprise either, because drug patents are primarily issued for new synthetic molecules. All synthetic molecules need to be detoxified and eliminated from the body, a system that frequently fails and results in an epidemic of severe and deadly side effects.

"Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food."