ExTexasRedhead :"Life expectancy has dropped because Big Pharma and insurance companies have shoved “generic” drugs on us like candy.
They have no idea what fillers are in them because they’re made in some foreign country where the drugs, for the most part, are not inspected.
Add to that, the FDA has allowed clinical trials to be conducted with fewer and fewer people for shorter and shorter periods of time."
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I urge everyone to contact the Trump Administration and ask them to bring the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals back to the USA where they can be inspected to ensure they won’t kill us or cause side effects that drive you to the edge! We have to speak out now! How many people have you talked to who have had horrible experiences with generic drugs?? We’re their guinea pigs. Insurance companies are pushing these drugs because they’re making billions on the garbage.
I urge others to tell their stories as there are millions of them. Listen to the evening commercials for these drugs and listen to their “side effects” up to an including DEATH. Yes, swallow a pill that can cause death! No thank you. How many prescriptions do you walk out of your doctor’s office with? How many more do you get to combat the side effects?
I think Drug resistance is caused not by overuse of antibiotics but under use. By not killing the organisms in the first place, multiply their chances to grow resistant.
One of my mother’s cousins worked as a QC expert for one of the Big 4 accounting firms, and she was very involved with QC at pharmaceutical companies. She told me that the generics have to meet the same standards as the original drugs. Many are made in the same factories as the originals, many are made in Israel, Canada, Japan or the UK (hardly Turd World $hitholes that know or care nothing for quality or morality). The problems that may occur are as a result of cheap Chinese or Indian knock-offs...and those are generally not sold in reputable pharmacies (Walgreen’s, CVS, Walmart/Sam’s Club, Costco, etc.). That stuff is mostly sold online...which is buyer beware for anything that is a “screaming bargain” - because there’s usually a not-so-palatable reason why the product is so cheap.
Antibiotic resistance - a natural development, though undoubtedly encouraged by some unwise practices.
Think about it - I’ll explain using narcotics for an example. The body adapts, and it takes more and more to get the same result.
So adaptation to antibiotics is to be expected. I’ve also read that some of the old time remedies have actually been successful in treating some of these newer resistant strains.
Eat nutritious foods - eat to improve your own immune system. Take as few medications as possible. Each added medicine for hypertension, for example, increases your risk of death.
Don’t take non-aspirin NSAIDs if you can avoid it - they increase risk of death from cardio/stroke.
I would rather take a generic that has years of data behind it than to take a newer medicine. FDA has too cozy a relationship with Big Pharma Companies. JMHO
I do t think the drs hand put antibiotics very often thee days. Mine used to, but now ‘everything was a virus’.
Substance abuse and its complications (car accidents, suicide , homicide, HIV, hepatitis b and c) tends to kill younger folks so brings down the average age a lot.
As for big pharma, well, treating high blood pressure has saved many lives from strokes, heart attacks and kidney failure.
The generics are a problem because a lot are made in China and India and quality control or even deliberate fraud is a problem.the FDA tries to keep an eye on it there, but here in the Philippines it is a big problem.