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Created4
01-05-2012, 06:48 PM
Drugs: almost 100% of Americans use them. Chances are you have some in your medicine cabinet in your bathroom. Most drugs used in the U.S. today are legal, while some are illegal. Unfortunately, the picture of drugs portrayed by the mainstream media is very biased and one-sided, and not well understood by most Americans. So I want to present as much factual information here as possible, information you are not likely to read in the mainstream media since they themselves are very much funded and influenced by the pharmaceutical industry.

There are More Deaths from Legal Drugs than Illegal Drugs

We are taught from a very young age in this country that illegal drugs are dangerous, and can lead to addiction and even death. The truth is, however, that more people in America are addicted to legal drugs, and deaths related to legal drugs far outnumber deaths due to illegal drugs. Some facts:


11 percent of Americans ages 12 and older now use prescribed antidepressant/psychoticdrugs. (CDC November 2011 report)
At least 106,000 people die each year from drugs which are properly prescribed and properly administered. More than two million suffer serious side effects. (Lazarou J, Pomeranz BH, Corey PN: “Incidence of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized patients.” JAMA 1998;279:1200.
Illegal drugs, including cocaine and heroin, are responsible for an estimated 10,000-20,000 American deaths per year. (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. CDC. 2007;56(05):93-96.)


Please note that the statistics in the second point above, 106,000 deaths from legally prescribed drugs, does not even factor in deaths from legal drugs that are not prescribed, but obtained for recreational purposes through theft, through corrupt doctors, or from friends, etc. which is a growing problem. Dr. Mercola reports (http://healthimpactnews.com/2011/prescription-drugs-now-kill-more-people-than-illegal-drugs/) that nearly 20 percent of Americans have used prescription drugs for nonmedicinal reasons, three-quarters of whom may be abusing them.

Legally prescribed narcotics now cause more deaths each year than traffic accidents, and cause more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined. (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report published in the LA Times (http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/17/local/la-me-drugs-epidemic-20110918))

Clearly, legal drugs are a far worse problem in America today than illegal drugs, when it comes to addiction and deaths.

There is More Criminal Activity from Legal Drugs than Illegal Drugs

The top illegal drugs in America today are marijuana, heroin, and cocaine. So most criminal convictions in the US must be involved with the illegal sale and distribution of these drugs, right? Not if you look at criminal convictions from drug lawsuits, the amount of money awarded in damages due to criminal convictions, and the number of innocent people killed from drugs in these criminal cases against the companies that manufacture legal drugs. Illegal drugs are miniscule when compared to legal drugs from this perspective.

In 2010 a panel of doctors with the Public Citizen’s Health Research Group produced a study (http://www.citizen.org/documents/rapidlyincreasingcriminalandcivilpenalties.pdf) showing that while the defense industry used to be the biggest defrauder of the federal government under the False Claims Act, the pharmaceutical industry has now overtaken them. The study found that:


U.S. spending on prescription drugs has increased from $40 billion in 1990 to $234 billion in 2008. In this era of rapidly rising drug costs, the illegal pharmaceutical company activities that have contributed to such inflated spending have garnered a significant amount of media attention. Recent billion dollar settlements with two of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, Eli Lilly and Pfizer, provide evidence of the enormous scale of this wrongdoing. However, the total size, varied nature, and potential impact of these illegal and potentially dangerous activities have not been previously analyzed. This study examined trends from 1991 to the present in federal and state criminal and civil actions against pharmaceutical companies in order to address these questions.

Their study found that the practice of illegal off-label promotion of pharmaceuticals was responsible for the largest amount of financial penalties levied by the federal government over the past 20 years. This practice can be prosecuted as a criminal offense because of the serious adverse health effects in patients from such activities.

Their study (http://www.citizen.org/documents/rapidlyincreasingcriminalandcivilpenalties.pdf)fou nd that the practice of illegal off-label promotion of pharmaceuticals was responsible for the largest amount of financial penalties levied by the federal government over the past 20 years. This practice can be prosecuted as a criminal offense because of the serious adverse health effects in patients from such activities.

The most widely published case in recent times was the case of Merck’s painkiller drug Vioxx. Before it was pulled from the market, scientists at the FDA estimated that Vioxx caused between 88,000 and 139,000 heart attacks, probably 30%-40% of them fatal for an estimated 55,000 deaths. Merck, which also markets the vaccines Gardasil, MMR, and Varivax, was found guilty of criminal charges of suppressing negative research on the drug prior to its release. They paid billions of dollars in damages, but how many people went to prison over this mass-murder conviction? That would be NONE.

But if someone wants to use a natural herb that cannot be patented by a drug company for pain relief, such as cannabis (marijuana), they go to prison just for possession. So while the pharmaceutical companies are continually convicted of criminal charges in a legal drug industry, and simply get off by paying money which reduces their bottom line, over 30 percent of America’s youth are now being arrested and being put into our overcrowded prisons funded by your tax dollars for something more serious than a traffic ticket by the age of 23, and the majority of those are casualties of America’s “War on Drugs.” 750,000 people were arrested in 2010 for merely possessing marijuana – not selling it or distributing it.

Are all illegal drugs only recreational drugs with no therapeutic value?

No. According to the FDA, any product making any health claim that has not been approved by them and their scientists is being sold as an illegal drug. I know this first hand because I was issued a warning letter by the FDA in 2005 for selling illegal drugs. What was I selling? Coconut oil. Yes, the FDA wanted to protect you from that toxic and highly addictive dangerous substance known as coconut oil, so it issued me a warning letter, which would have resulted in my arrest and detention, and the loss of my business, if I had chosen to resist. Our crime was linking to peer-reviewed research on the health benefits of coconut oil (http://www.coconutoil.com/peer_reviewed.htm) as well as publishing testimonials from our customers who were claiming such unapproved things such as losing weight, increased energy, better thyroid function, and many other things (http://www.coconutdiet.com/index.htm). These unapproved claims made coconut oil a “drug” according to the FDA, and I was a criminal.

This kind of activity by the FDA goes on regularly. In 2011 they issued a warning letter to Wyldewood Cellars for health claims made for their elderberry wine. The letter stated that it was “an unapproved and misbranded drug.” It went on to say: “Products with unapproved disease claims are dangerous because they may cause consumers to delay or avoid legitimate treatments. The FDA is committed to protecting consumers from unapproved products on the market.” (Article here (http://healthimpactnews.com/2011/fda-seizes-elderberry-juice-from-kansas-winery-to-protect-drugs/)) They also went after Diamond Foods in California for illegal health claims on their walnuts which made them into drugs. (See the FDA warning letter here (http://www.fda.gov/iceci/enforcementactions/warningletters/ucm202825.htm).)

One of the most widely publicized cases on the Internet in 2011 (the mainstream media rarely covers these types of stories, because many of their sponsors are pharmaceutical companies) was the case of Texas medical doctor and Ph.D biochemist Dr. Burzynski. Dr. Burzynski has endured a 14 year legal battle with the Texas Medical Board and the FDA over his proven cancer therapy using a medicine he developed himself called Antineoplastons. If he finally beats the FDA and gets approval for this therapy that has successfully treated some incurable cancers, it will mark the first time in history a single scientist, not a pharmaceutical company, will hold the exclusive patent and distribution rights on a paradigm-shifting medical breakthrough. But for most of his practice in treating cancer patients from all over the world, he has been using an illegal drug according to the FDA. You can watch a very well done documentary on his work here. Here is a short trailer that I guarantee will move you to want to watch the full movie:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0QqAzs0TF6A

Continue reading this article here: http://healthimpactnews.com/2012/legal-drugs-vs-illegal-drugs-are-we-fighting-the-right-war/

Created4
01-06-2012, 09:03 AM
From NYT Today:

In the years before he lost his Pennsylvania Senate seat in 2006, Rick Santorum worked hard to win hundreds of millions of dollars in additional Medicare money for hospitals in Puerto Rico.

He sponsored at least two Senate bills and pushed to amend a mammoth Medicare overhaul to include the extra spending, which would have benefited Universal Health Services, a Pennsylvania-based hospital management company with facilities in Puerto Rico. If it seems at odds with the small-government philosophy Mr. Santorum now espouses in his presidential campaign, it was in line with his legislative efforts to help businesses in his state.

And some of those businesses were happy to return the favor.

Within months of leaving the Senate, Mr. Santorum joined the board of Universal Health Services, where he collected $395,000 in director’s fees and stock options before resigning last year. He also became a consultant to Consol Energy, after years of advocating drilling and extraction policies helpful to the company, a Pennsylvania gas and coal producer. And he consulted for the American Continental Group, a lobbying firm whose clients won earmarks he sponsored.

Article here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45898365/ns/politics-the_new_york_times/#.TwcEk9TOy6U

Created4
01-06-2012, 04:18 PM
Another NYT Story today: "Just 1 in 7 hospital errors on Medicare patients reported, study finds"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45903597/ns/health-health_care/

Death by "health"-care funded by you, the American taxpayer.